Holly Sticks

Holly Cole was born on November 25th, 1963 with Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a singer of jazz, particularly popular in Canada and Japan, but also in Europe. Popular, so much for its changeable voice than for its adventurous repertory, which proposes songs sometimes pop repertory, rock'n'roll, jazz, blues, or, of that of the country music.

In 1983, after studies in music in Boston, she moves in Toronto in order to continue her formation and musical career. In 1986, it founds a trio with the bass player David Piltch and the pianist and type-setter Aaron Davis. In 1989, the trio of Adhesive leaves maximum 45 turns, Christmas Blues, on which figure a percussion version of 2.000 Miles of the Pretenders, which is quickly followed of its first 33 turns, Girl Talk (1990), arisen on the international market in 1994.

A succession of new albums in the beginning of the year “90 will reward the efforts for the trio. For example, in 1991, the album Blame It One My Youth , by Tom Waits ( Purple Avenue , or Empty Pockets ), Lyle Lovett ( God Will ), including the songs of its spectacle If I Were has Bell ( Guys and Dolls ) and One the Street Where You Live (of My Fair Lady ), and remakes Trust In Me , the very frivolous song of the Jungle Book of Walt Disney, in a envoûtante and sinister song of seduction. During this period, it also recorded a remarkable reinterpretation of the song of Elvis Costello Alison .

Following the album Don' T Smoke In Bed of 1993, the trio will record, in a daring effort, disc-compact entirely composed of songs of Tom Waits entitled Temptation . The publication, in 1995, of this album will mark the end of a collaboration of the Trio under the Alert label.

Two albums will follow flirtant with the pop music, to perhaps keep the passion of the " diva" for this period of the end of the year '90. These albums, Dark Dear Heart (1997) and Romantically Helpless (2000), derived from the jazz, introduce elements of the pop music into the sound Cole .

In 2001, it turns over to its roots Christmas Jazz of its first compact disk, with Baby It' S Cold Outside , which will include the almost traditional Christmas Time is Here (of the album has Charlie Brown Christmas ), Santa Baby , as well as the principal title Baby It' S Cold Outside . Alternating cold with the heat, it will connect, in 2003, with an estival topic, Shade , and will reinterpret successes of Cole Porter ( Too Darn Hot ), of Irving Berlin ( Heatwave ) and of the Beach Boy Brian Wilson ( God Only Knows ).

Adhesive is frequently in round, particularly in Canada, during the period of the festivals (Christmas and New Year's Day) and during the summer season in the various festivals both in Canada and in the United States and in Europe. It also took share, in 1999, with the round Lilith Fair.

The last album of Holly Sticks, Holly Cole (entitled beforehand This House Is Haunted ) was spent on sale on March 13rd, 2007 in Canada. It will be put on the market at the U.S.A that in January 2008.

Discography

Christmas Blues (1989)
Girl Talk (1990)
Blame It one My Youth (1991)
Don' T Smoke in Bed (1993)
Temptation (1995)
It Happened One Night (live, 1996)
Dark Dear Heart (1997)
Romantically Helpless (2000)
Baby It' S Cold Outside (2001)
Shade (2003)
Holly Sticks (2007)

External bonds

Official site of Holly Sticks
Site of L ''' Encyclopedie of the music to Canada ''

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