Amy Holland's career began at 15 years old when she migrated to LA to sign with Brother records a label started by the Beach Boys. Though no album was to materialize, it was a ticket out of palisades NY straight into the music business of the 70's in that mecca known as Hollywood California. Amy Boersma came to LA as a singer songwriter in 1970 and during the typical string of artist development deals that for some reason, don't quite pan out, she met and captured the interest of more than a few distinguished record producers. Among these were Jack Daugherty (the Carpenters. ...show more

Amy Holland's career began at 15 years old when she migrated to LA to sign with Brother records a label started by the Beach Boys. Though no album was to materialize, it was a ticket out of palisades NY straight into the music business of the 70's in that mecca known as Hollywood California. Amy Boersma came to LA as a singer songwriter in 1970 and during the typical string of artist development deals that for some reason, don't quite pan out, she met and captured the interest of more than a few distinguished record producers. Among these were Jack Daugherty (the Carpenters.

Paul Williams) and Rick Jarrard (Jefferson Airplane, Nillson, Jose Feliciano). However it was a randomly brief but fortuitous rehearsal encounter with a relatively unknown composer, and for the moment, piano accompanist Michael McDonald, during these early years that would lead ultimately to Amy Hollands success at radio years later, winning her a best new artist nomination at the Grammy Awards of 1980. McDonald who, years later, remembering the allure of her vocal style, would join forces with keyboardist/composer/producer, Patrick Henderson to produce her first Capitol LP from which the top 20 hit "How do I Survive," (composed by Paul Bliss), emerged on to the charts, taking Amy Holland around the world as an American 80's ingénue. This period of Amy's career is documented by TV appearances in Japan and the US that can still be found on You Tube.

A second Capitol LP titled "On Your Every Word" and musical contributions to films such as "Scarface" and "Teen Wolf" (Some of those tracks produced and written by the infamous Giorgio Moroder) along with her contributions to the projects of other artist's such as Kenny Loggins, Joni Mitchell, Tim Weisburg, Doobie Brother Patrick Simmons and McDonald's solo projects, would mark her career path for the next few years. During this time her music business relationship with producer McDonald had developed into something much more and with their marriage and the subsequent birth of their two children, Amy found herself embracing the role of wife and mother. discovering along the way that she had to somewhat relax her grip on her lifelong dream of being a recording artist. After a much longer than intended hiatus due to a battle to survive breast cancer, Amy has found a renewed inspiration in the making and release of her most recent CD "The Journey To Miracle River". ...show less