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CSLA Department of Music Ms. Deborah Holland Faculty: Commercial Music, Computer Music For more information on Deborah Holland visit www.deborahholland.net |
Since the late 1980's, when she co-founded the much-heralded pop trio Animal Logic with ex-Police drummer Stewart Copeland and virtuoso bassist Stanley Clarke, Deborah Holland has become known throughout the world as a singer, songwriter, producer, and film composer. In addition to the two highly-acclaimed albums Deborah recorded with Animal Logic, she has also released two solo albums. Freudian Slip garnered critical acclaim and regular radio play, and placed on a number of national recording industry charts. Her recent release, The Panic Is On: Songs From the Great Depression, grew out of a project Deborah completed for her masters thesis at CSLA, and has already been placed in medium to heavy rotation at a growing number of radio stations throughout the United States. In addition, Deborah has produced, written songs for, or has performed on more than a dozen albums by other artists.
She has also scored eight motion pictures including Circuitry Man, Genuine Risk, December, and Out There and has written, produced, and/or performed original songs in more than two dozen other motion pictures and network television shows including Peter Benchley's The Beast, Highlander II, One False Move, Fright Night II, and Afterburn.
As a featured performer, Deborah has appeared in literally hundreds of venues throughout Europe and North and South America including Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the Elysée-Montmartre in Paris, the Paradiso in Amsterdam, the London Dance House in Cologne, the Palladium in London, Canecão in Rio de Janeiro, and the Universal Amphitheater here in Los Angeles. Deborah has also performed live on several nationally-syndicated radio broadcasts and on two of television's most popular late-night talk shows: The Tonight Show (two separate performances hosted by Jay Leno and Johnny Carson), and Late Night With David Letterman.
Music videos from two of her albums have been played in regular rotation on MTV and VH-1. Deborah's songs and records have been listed on, among others, Billboard's Top 200 Albums chart, the Gavin AAA chart, the WAVE Top 10 Singles chart, and the Friday Morning Quarterback chart. In addition, her song Spy In The House Of Love won the Best of Philadelphia Music Award for Best Pop Rock Single of 1990.
For several years Deborah has also maintained a successful career as a jingle singer on radio and television commercials for advertisers such as Mazda, 7-Up, and Michelob.
Ms. Holland attended the Berklee College of Music and Rutgers University, from which she received her B.A. with Highest Honors in Jazz Studies. In 1996, Deborah received her M.M. from CSLA where she was honored as the Outstanding Graduate Student in Commercial Music.