1. Holly Knight born 1956, is an American songwriter, musician, and singer.
17 Facts About Holly Knight
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Holly Knight has won thirteen ASCAP Awards, and has co-written hits for numerous successful recording artists, including Tina Turner and Pat Benatar who each won Grammy Awards for their recordings of her songs.
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Holly Knight started playing classical piano at the age of four, continuing her studies for ten years at the Mannes School of Music.
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Holly Knight was already planning to leave Spider, when Dreamland president, songwriter and record producer Mike Chapman urged her to move to Los Angeles to pursue her songwriting career.
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Holly Knight signed a publishing deal with his company, eventually signing to EMI Publishing.
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Holly Knight and Chapman worked together on the top 5 US hit "Better Be Good to Me" by Tina Turner and "Love Is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar, each of which won a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
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Holly Knight was replaced on keyboards in Spider, later renamed Shanghai for its eponymous and final album, before her former band folded in 1984.
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Holly Knight has written hits for some of the most successful artists in music, both on her own and in collaboration with others.
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Holly Knight wrote songs with Heart, Aerosmith, Rod Stewart, Bon Jovi, and many more.
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Holly Knight was voted the Best Songwriter in Rolling Stone magazine's 11th annual poll, along with Phil Collins, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen.
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In 1988, Holly Knight released a self-titled solo album that featured her own rendition of "Love Is a Battlefield", as well "Heart Don't Fail Me Now", a single with background vocals by Daryl Hall.
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Holly Knight wrote and produced the theme song for the popular TV shows Angel and Still Standing.
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Holly Knight has produced tracks for Otep, Fefe Dobson, The Donnas, the Australian band Porcelain, and 2014 Tony Award winner Lena Hall.
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Holly Knight has been mentioned in several autobiographies, including I, Tina by Tina Turner, Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Pat Benatar, Kicking and Screaming by Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart, I'm with The Band by Pamela Des Barres, My Love Story by Tina Turner, and All I Ever Wanted by Kathy Valentine.
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Holly Knight joined a list of other trailblazing women by contributing her story to the 2017 book Because I Was a Girl: True Stories for Girls of All Ages, published by Henry Holt and Company.
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Holly Knight has two grown sons and lives in Los Angeles.
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Holly Knight has been married three times, and dated Anton Fig and Paul Stanley in the 1980s.