Hollie Steel

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

Related: Ana Free YouTube Channel – Free Music Downloads – Sweden’s Got Talent: Zara Larsson – YouTube Star: Charice Pempengco

The webcast above shows a short interview with Hollie Steel after her initial Britain’s Got Talent performance.

Related: Local TV Spot When Hollie Returned to School During BGT – A Day with Hollie Steel and Family – Hollie Steel Audition Video

Wild Horses was ranked 334 in Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time – in 2004. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and recorded by the Rolling Stones. Wild Horses will be the first single Susan releases and it will be on her album to be released in November, which is #2 on Amazon today (behind a new release from Barbra Streisand). Mick Jagger thinks that Susan Boyle’s version of “Wild Horses” is better than the Rolling Stones original.

Listen to the Rolling Stone version, from their Stripped album: Read the rest of this entry »

Hollie Records First Album in Nelson

I can’t wait to hear the results of her singing. Susan Boyle’s new CD continues to dominate the Amazon rankings (#1 today). Hopefully Hollie can have a successful first CD and grow from there to have many more.

Even more important though is that Hollie doesn’t try to take on too much too soon. Successful sales would be nice but there is no need to sell out to try and be a quick huge success. Many talented singers have long, successful, happy careers without being huge celebrity personalities.

Too often performers seem to compromise because they think they need to conform to expectations of those in the business, but that is often a big mistake. There are many options today that allow singers to be successful without giving into demands of record labels (which seem to often wring huge sales out of young singers and then leave behind broken and poor performers). If she keeps focused on making sure she has fun and grows up well we can look forward to many more enjoyable albums, I think.

Hopefully they will release a track online sometime soon, to give us something to listen to while we wait for the release of Hollie’s first CD.

Related: I Live to Dance In Front of the Queen – Hollie Steel’s Britain’s Got Talent 2009 Final – Susan Boyle and Diversity Make the BGT Finals

Susan Boyle’s debut album, I Dreamed A Dream, will be released November 24th but already it tops Amazon’s music sales leaders on pre-release sales. The webcast shows her signing I Dreamed a Dream in the BGT Finals.

Following her on the chart is I Look to You by Whitney Houston and 5 of the next 6 leaders are remastered Beatles Albums (to be released Sept 9th): Abbey Road, The White Album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Revolver and Rubber Soul.

12th on the list is a great new release from They Might Be Giants: Here Comes Science.

Paul Potts, 2007 Britain’s Got Talent winner, holds the 47th spot with his new album Passione, which has been in the top 100 for 55 days. His debut album, One Chance, is in the 61st spot and has been in the top 100 for an amazing 316 days.

Wicked has been in the top 100 for 1,011 days – more than twice as long as the next longest. Watch Hollie’s visit to backstage of Wicked.

Hopefully we will see Hollie Steel’s debut album within the next year.

Related: Susan Boyle’s Audition Video – Susan Boyle Makes the BGT Finals

Here is a nice post on a blogger and fan’s visit with Hollie and her family: Our Day with Hollie Steel and Family

It really is great how the internet allows us to be able to share and connect in ways that were not practical years ago. The photo is from Mandy Boylett’s visit to Hollie’s house.

Related: Hollie Returning to School During BGT – Hollie Turns Eleven – Hollie Steel Steadies Nerves and Earns BGT Finals Spot – Hollie Steel Almost Didn’t Enter Britain’s Got Talent

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The Jackson 5 singing I Want You Back in 1969 when Michael Jackson was 11.

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Hollie Steel jumps with joy for the Burnley Clarets in a photo from the Lancashire Telegraph.

Hollie Steel knows Burnley have got talent!

Pubs and firms are dusting off their Burnley FC flags, as a host of towns look to become seas of claret and blue for their Premier League debut at Stoke.
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Britain’s Got Talent finalist Hollie Steel, who grew up in Burnley, said she can barely contain her excitement as kick-off approaches.
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“It is really great at the moment, the town centre is doing well and the promotion has really put a skip in everyone’s step.” Business has been booming in the club shop as fans prepare for Saturday’s away tie with Stoke City and the first home game against league champions Manchester United.

Lisa Merrifield, shop manager, said: “We’ve never seen anything like it – I’ve gone grey with stress. We’ve trebled our business and had to extend the shop.”

Burnley lost their first match to Stoke City but responded with a win against Manchester United in their next match.

Related: Local TV Spot When Hollie Returned to School During BGT – Hollie Steel and Aidan Davis Complete the Britain’s Got Talent Final Roster – Hollie Steel Returns to School

This Local TV spot is from when Britain’s Got Talent show was ongoing. It shows Hollie Steel’s return to school after the audition and before the semi-finals.

Related: Hollie Steel Returns to School – Video of Hollie Steel Singing as an Even Younger Child – Holly Steel background

The video shows Hollie Steel singing “I have confidence” (from the Sound of Music) in Bournemouth on July 5th as part of the Britain’s Got Talent tour.

Related: Hollie Steel Sings in Aberdeen – Hollie Steel sings Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again at the BGT Final – YouTube Star: Charice Pempengco