Hollie Smith

New Zealander Hollie Smith produced her studio room debut like a 16-year-old with 1999’s Light from a Distant Shoreline, a Celtic music record, prior to going to become among the country’s leading neo-soul vocalists. Having earned Best Woman Vocalist at New Zealand’s Country wide Jazz Event in 1998, Smith got already caught the eye of her countrymen, and the prevailing buzz produced the individually released Distant Shoreline a modest however significant success. Many years afterwards, she shifted directions by signing up for New Zealand’s leading R&B, reggae, and neo-soul group Trinity Root base. After documenting 2004’s Home, Property and Sea using the group, Smith got her initial taste of the street as the music group performed through the entire region. The next year, Smith could record her very own compositions for the very first time, alongside unique agreements of cover materials. Hollie Smith EP not merely have scored her a nationwide Top Ten strike with her rendition of Don McGlashan’s “Bathe within the River,” but gained her the clout and reliability to negotiate a cope with EMI for the discharge of her major-label debut. Long Participant featured music from her very own pen (created during the period of four years), a few of NZ’s finest music artists, and a spirit/jazz sound therefore steamy and sensuous that Smith’s name dominated nationwide mass media for weeks following album’s Might 2007 release time. Once the record dropped into Blue Take note Records leader Bruce Lundvall’s hands, he and subsidiary label Manhattan Information agreed to provide her up to speed.