Holly Knight

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Holly Knight is a songwriter, vocalist and musician of pop and rock music.

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[edit] Biography

She was born in New York City and started playing classical piano as a young child. She soon became interested in rock music, and left home at about sixteen to pursue her dreams. Five years later, in the early 1980s, her band Spider (featuring Anton Fig of Late Show with David Letterman) got a recording contract with Dreamland Records, released two albums - Spider (self-titled; 1980) and Between the Lines (1981) and was managed by Bill Aucoin, who had also managed KISS and Billy Idol, among others. She had a second band called Device in the mid 1980s, who had a hit with "Hanging on a Heart Attack" off their 22B3 album.

The Dreamland president, songwriter and record producer Mike Chapman, urged her to leave the band and go to Los Angeles, California to pursue her songwriting career. She worked for his publishing company and then for EMI Publishing for many years.

Knight and Chapman worked together on Top 5 U.S. hit "Better Be Good to Me" by Tina Turner and Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield", each of which won a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. She also co-wrote the highly successful song "The Best" which was a #1 single around the world for Tina Turner. On her own and in collaboration with others, Knight wrote songs for Heart, Aerosmith, Bonnie Tyler, Rod Stewart, and many more.

In recent years, Knight co-wrote (with Cami Elen and Jymm Thomas) the theme song for the popular Joss Whedon television show Angel, performed by Darling Violetta. She also wrote and produced the title theme for the sitcom Still Standing, and has been continuing to pursue a career as a record producer.

Although primarily known for her songwriting and membership in other bands, Knight also released a self-titled solo album in 1988. This album featured her own rendition of the song she co-wrote, "Love is a Battlefield," as well as the single "Heart Don't Fail Me Now," which featured background vocals from Daryl Hall. Another song from this album, "Howling at the Moon" was recently sampled by the band Scooter for a remix of the tune.

[edit] Family

She currently resides with her two sons and husband, Danny Murphy, British guitarist and songwriter, in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California.[citation needed]

[edit] Songs

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