Hollie Steel

What a Wonderful World by Jamia Simone Nash, age 13

What a wonderful song and message of hope.

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Hollie has posted a new compilation of her singing on her MySpace page. The songs include: I Could Have Danced All Night, Edelweiss, (some opera – sorry it doesn’t say what, and I can’t tell).

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Album cover of Hollie Steel's first single Where are You Christmas

Hollie Steel’s First Single, Where Are You Christmas?, is not available to download as an mp3. You can also listen to a portion of the song online.

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MP3 downloads of Hollie Steel’s first single, Where are you Christmas will be available shortly. The release of the CD singles will be released tomorrow.

Hollie hopes downloads will propel her up the charts

The Huncoat 11-year-old’s song ‘Where are you Christmas‘ is available for pre-order online from HMV and is due to be released on Monday.
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“I think it’s going into the stores next week and we probably won’t know how she’s done until the Sunday night after it’s been released.” From next week physical copies of the single, co-written by Mariah Carey, can be bought for £2.

But with it also going on download for 79p Hollie fans are hoping that the internet, which propelled her Britain’s Got Talent debut to worldwide audiences, can see her join the likes of Robbie Williams, George Michael and the X-Factor winner in the charts.

Nina said: “She needs about 7,000 downloads to get in the top 40 and that’s a lot for a little girl. But we have a lot more than 7,000 people in Accrington and 79p is nothing really to get a lovely song!”

Nina also revealed that the title of Hollie’s forthcoming album is virtually decided.

She said: “I think she’s going to call it ‘I Could’ve Danced All Night’, because that’s her song. She has got something like 23 million You Tube hits and most of them are for that.

Interview of Hollie Steel by Arry Arry Boy, November 2009. And at the end you get to hear Hollie singing a bit of her new single Where Are You Christmas, which is available now.

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A fan recording of Hollie Steel singing Where Are You Christmas? at the Christmas Lights in Preston, November 2009. As I posted earlier Where Are You Christmas will be her first single; and it will be released in 2 days (pre-order here).

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And here is a fan recording of Hollie Steel singing Nessun Dorma, also at the Christmas Lights festival in Preston
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Photo of Hollie Steel with her CD's

Hollie sets her sights on the festive top 10

Hollie is getting ready for the release of her debut single “Where Are You Christmas” – which has been co-written by world-famous diva Mariah Carey. Mum Nina said the song will be available for download and in the shops on 7 December.
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She added: “Hollie has had a really good time doing it all. She would love to get into the top 10 but we don’t know if that will happen or not.
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Hollie hopes to follow up her debut single launch with the release of her first album in the New Year, which she has been recording in Nelson. “We have already recorded 12 songs,” Nina said.

“She has loved doing it all and it’s a mix of musical theatre, Disney and opera songs. It is a bit different so all the songs do not sound the same.”

As I posted earlier you can listen to her singing O mio (an aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi) and Nessun Dorma (an aria from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot) via her MySpace page.

Hollie Steel’s single a hit for Christmas

Right now the only way to order the single is through HMV in Britain. My guess is this is do to marketing and promotion, with the internet it should be easy to release the single as an MP3 anywhere over the internet to be downloaded by whoever wants it. According to the site UK delivery is free and for airmail “you will be charged a shipping cost for each item placed on your order – Europe £2.50, Rest Of The World £4.50.” Actually that isn’t that bad, I don’t think, and it may be that less expensive shipping is available (for slower shipping), it is not clear to me from the website.

On the CD-singles coming soon page Hollie’s single now appears in the 7th spot. And 3 above her are already shipping, so for true pre-orders she is in the 4th spot. Of course, since her release is only available as a CD from HMV that skews the rankings. But it is still nice to see it is selling. Hopefully the album will be released as a download as well as a CD.

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East Lancashire singing star Hollie Steel aims for Christmas number one

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Alexandra Burke, x factor 2008 winner sings Hallelujah in the webcast below.

Hollie’s MySpace page has 2 tracks of Hollie singing: O mio (an aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi) and Nessun Dorma (an aria from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot). Hollie’s voice shines through in this operatic songs.

The photo of Hollie is from her MySpace site. The site also includes a video of Hollie solving a cube puzzle.

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This is an original song from this signer from Portugal who current lives in the United Kingdom. From her MySpace site:

Chained, a song she wrote when she was 16 has over 1,000,000 YouTube views. Purchase her MP3s: Keep On Walking – In My Place – Self Inflicted

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