Holly Beth Vincent

Holly Beth Vincent is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumental musician. She is often known for Holly and the Italian's 1980 song "Tell That Girl to Shut Up",cited by Mojo Magazine as one of the top 20 killer New Wave tracks from the US (2008 Mojo Classic special edition) which later became a UK top 50 hit for Transvision Vamp in 1988. Her Holly Beth Vincent album, titled Holly and the Italians is one of Ira Robbins/Trouser Press record guide's top albums of all-time. In 1982, she arranged, sang, played the guitars,and co-produced (with Wham/George Michael producer Steve Brown), a duet/cover version of the song "I Got You Babe" with Ramones Vocalist Joey Ramone, which became a cult hit and was a limited release on Virgin Records UK. Thomas Dolby appears on this on synthesizer. When her label deals expired she moved back to the US and performed live around New York and the east coast with musicians Jimmy Rip, Fred Smith, Jay Dee Daugherty, Dolette McDonald, and Mary Davis.She also worked as a runway model for various NY fashion weeks,and appeared in a role as a model in an indie-film with actress Ann Magnuson and an Italian director which was released in Europe.

In the nineties, she relocated to Los Angeles and formed a band called The Oblivious. With that group, she wrote, played instruments on, and produced an album entitled America, which was released on Daemon Records, a label run by Amy Ray of The Indigo Girls. They toured extensively in the U.S. with the band Concrete Blonde. She then released an album called Vowel Movement with Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, which the women wrote, produced and performed. In the later nineties, she released a compilation of demo recordings called Demos Federico. A song from these sessions was used as background for a 2011 episode of American Idol in Season 10.

Some other places her music appears are the song "Mercy" in the 1993 Tony Bill movie Untamed Heart, the (Vowel Movement) song "Jesus" in the 1997 indie-film The Boys Club, and again the song "Tell That Girl to Shut Up" in the 2003 MTV reality series, Rich Girls. Other of her songs recorded by artists include "You Can Love Her" by Shirley Manson circa the band Angelfish. In the 2000s, Holly has been voiceover talent in commercials for Nike, Pepsi, Squirt, and Nintendo.

Her most recent recording is Minnesota-California, released 2009. Previous to that is the largely electronic, self-performed album Super Rocket Star, in 2007. She is the sole writer and co-producer of both, and the main or only guitarist on all her recordings.

She also appears on others records as a vocalist,the Michael Monroe album Not Fakin' It, and 2012 posthumous album release by Joey Ramone, Ya Know? among them.

Vincent was born in Chicago. Her mother is of Swedish and French background; her father, Italian. She was raised in Lake Tahoe and then southern California, where she attended high school. At age 18, she moved to London, where she lived with Chris Wood of the band Traffic and his wife. She dated Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. After she broke up with him, he wrote the songs "Romeo and Juliet," "Love Over Gold," and "It Never Rains" about her.

She lives in Los Angeles and is active with many projects,performing,writing new songs,as well as creating techno music.