Hollie Steel

At 26 years old, Hollie Steel has this physical status:

Hollie Steel (born 1 July 1998) is an English singer who hails from Accrington, England.

Her first audition on the third series of Britain's Got Talent received mainly positive feedback from all of the show's judges.

Steel's second appearance in the semi-finals caused a panic attack and collapsed onstage.

She had a second shot at finishing the song without having a problem.

Steel advanced to the finals and finished in sixth place. In September 2009, Steel and family formed BB5 Records,' and she began recording her debut album, Hollie, which was released in May 2010.

The album was released in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. In late 2011, Steel released a second album and in early 2012 a third.

Fly, her sixth single, was released in Italy with Casa Musica and Romina Arena.

Personal life

Steel has been singing since the age of four when she expressed an interest in her older brother Joshua's appearances. She and her partner attended the KLF Dance Academy in Burnley together. She appeared in Annie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat productions before attending Britain's Got Talent.

Nina and Jason, Steel's parents, whose work as National Health Service audiologists, said she was accepted into Britain's Got Talent so she would not feel left out because her brother, Joshua, five years older, was more likely to progress. Hollie's audition was chosen by the judges, but Joshua was disqualified.

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Singing career

In September 2009, Steel signed with record label VVR2, which she swiftly broke out of the contract after recording her debut single "Where Are You, Christmas?" from the American film How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The single was released on 14 December 2009. The single, however, did not make it into the top 40 in the UK Singles Chart.

Steel's debut album, Hollie, was released on 24 May 2010. The album was released on Steel's own label, BB5 Records Limited, named after the Accrington postcode, and includes the Pendle's Arden Youth Choir on some of the classical pieces. Steel's second single was "Edelweiss", from The Sound of Music, and was released on 29 March 2010. Steel's third single was "I Could Have Danced All Night", from My Fair Lady, and "O Mio Babbino Caro", from Gianni Schicchi, and was released on 10 May 2010. Steel recorded at the sound studio in the ACE Centre in Nelson, Lancashire.

Steel's next single, consisting of two tracks, was released on 22 November 2010. The first song of the single is a cover of "When Christmas Comes to Town" from the 2004 animated/live action movie The Polar Express; and the music video became popular on YouTube. The second song is "O Holy Night". Steel also released a limited-edition 24-minute 2010 Christmas album available only on her official website, A Christmas Wish, consisting of six tracks with a complimentary 4-minute DVD titled "When Christmas comes to town."

On 4 December 2010, Steel gave performances of "O Mio Babbino Caro" and "O Holy Night" at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Steel was one of 16 artists on the CD Classical Crossover Compilation 2011, singing "Pokarekare Ana" on her track. She later released the song as a charity single to help those suffering from an earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.

In April 2011, Steel was cast in the role of Louisa von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Webber's UK tour of The Sound of Music. Her first appearance in the show was on 27 May 2011 in Glasgow; her final performance was on 15 October 2011 in Wimbledon.

The young singer then trained at college in London for 3 years where she graduated in 2017 with a Diploma in Musical Theatre. Shortly after this Hollie appeared in a The Extraordinary Tale of Holly Christmas. at Salford "The Lowry" playing the leading role of "Holly".

In summer 2018 Steel began her adventure in the Caribbean with Royal Caribbean where she played the role of "Frenchy" in Grease until summer 2022.

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