1. Pamela Anna Polland was born on August 15,1944 and is an American singer-songwriter who made three albums for Epic and Columbia Records in the 1960s and 1970s and whose songs have been recorded by a number of popular artists.
13 Facts About Pamela Polland
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Pamela Polland father was a woodwind player in the Sana Monica Symphony while her mother was an aspiring singer.
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Pamela Polland composed her first song at the age of nine and by her teens was playing folk clubs.
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Pamela Polland's recording career began a few years later, in 1966, when she and singer-songwriter Rick Stanley formed the Gentle Soul, a folk band with psychedelic influences and an emphasis on creative and elaborate vocal harmonies.
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Pamela Polland joined Joe Cocker and Leon Russell on the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour in 1970.
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Pamela Polland can be heard and seen in the ensuing double album and film documentary respectively.
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Pamela Polland took up the ukulele, studied local language, and became a hula dancer.
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Pamela Polland is currently band leader of Keaolani, a four-piece 'ukulele band tutored by Hawaiian cultural experts Kahauanu Lake and Walter Kamuala'i Kawai'ae'a.
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Pamela Polland is the co-founder of Maui Film Music, through which she provides film and TV scores with Bobby Parrs.
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In June 2010, Pamela Polland released "Hawaiianized", a five-track digital download EP available internationally via iTunes and other digital outlets.
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The collection was produced by John McFee of The Doobie Brothers, who had played on Pamela Polland's self-titled Columbia debut, and who played a variety of acoustic and electric stringed instruments on the EP.
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Pamela Polland's songs have been recorded by a considerable number of popular artists from the 60s onwards.
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Pamela Polland is married to designer Bill Ernst with whom she has settled in Hawaii on the island of Maui.