Amy Holland

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Amy Holland’s career began at 15 years old when she migrated to LA to sign with Brother records a label started by the Beach Boys. Though no album was to materialize, it was a ticket out of  palisades NY straight into the music business of  the 70’s in that mecca known as Hollywood California. Amy Boersma came to LA as a singer songwriter in 1970 and during the typical string of artist development deals that for some reason, don’t quite pan out, she met and captured the interest of  more than a few distinguished record producers. Among these were Jack Daugherty (the Carpenters. Paul Williams) and Rick Jarrard (Jefferson Airplane, Nillson, Jose Feliciano). However it was a randomly brief but fortuitous rehearsal encounter with a relatively unknown composer, and for the moment, piano accompanist Michael McDonald, during these early years that would lead ultimately to Amy Hollands success at radio years later, winning her a best new artist nomination at the Grammy Awards of 1980. McDonald who, years later, remembering the allure of her vocal style, would join forces with keyboardist/composer/producer, Patrick Henderson to produce her first Capitol LP from which the top 20 hit “How do I Survive,” (composed by Paul Bliss), emerged on to the charts, taking Amy Holland  around the world as an American 80’s ingénue. This  period of Amy’s career is documented by TV appearances in Japan and the US  that can still be found on YouTube. A second Capitol LP titled “On Your Every Word” a

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Scarface

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Scarface (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Scarface Soundtrack

Amy Holland

Scarface (Soundtrack)

Scarface (Expanded Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Scarface OST

Scarface [Original Soundtrack]

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Lost Hits of the 80's (All Original Artists & Versions)

The Journey To Miracle River

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Lost Hits of the 80's

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