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Claire Chamblin Holley is an American folk singer-songwriter from Mississippi. She has released eight albums and written for TV, Hollywood musicals and museums. She tours nationwide, is a wife and mom, and makes her home in Los Angeles, California. ==Life and career== Holley grew up in Jackson, Mississippi where at an early age she learned to play the auto-harp, ukelele, piano, and guitar; though it was playing guitar that really piqued her interest. She has said, "I was never that good at playing piano, and maybe that's because I didn't practice enough, but I found the guitar fun to play. It wasn't a chore to practice."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Claire Holley Biography in Internet Archives )〕 Her college days were spent in Chicago and, at the urging of a professor, she set to music a poem by William Blake. Soon thereafter came Holley's first independent release, ''Night Air''. She moved to North Carolina where in 1999 she created a collection of traditional hymns and gospel songs which caught the attention of radio listeners and Yep Rock Records. She was signed and released her third album which was tilted simply, ''Claire Holley''.〔 Holley has written songs for the cystic fibrosis foundation and the Metropolitan Museum of Art has used two of her arrangements of seasonal songs for one of their music releases. She was commissioned to write original music for Arlene Hutton’s play "See Rock City" which premiered at the Crossley Theatre in Hollywood September 2006 and LA Weekly magazine nominated her for "Best Original Music" for the LA Weekly theatre awards for the "See Rock City" songs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Claire Holley Music in Internet Archives )〕 ''Acoustic Guitar Magazine'' wrote, "Claire Holley is an observer, a romantic reporter from the backyards and front porches of the heartland." Claire Holley has performed with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kate Campbell, and Caroline Herring, and has composed music for ''The Fence'', an independent film which received the 2008 UCLA Directors Spotlight Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Image Journal article )〕 Mary Chapin Carpenter has said that Holley has an angelic style of writing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Mary Chapin Carpenter returns to the stage )〕 Two of her songs have appeared in the ABC TV show Men In Trees〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Men in Trees season 1 ep12 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Men in Trees season 2 ep15 )〕 and she wrote the original music for the documentary ''Looking For Lurch'' in 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 IMDb Looking For Lurch )〕 Holley was also a member of Musette (formerly ''Song Sirens''), a group of female singer-songwriters that performed every so often in Sierra Madre, a little town in the mountains just north of Los Angeles.〔 In 2013 she formed the group ''Powdercoat'' and released a duet EP with fellow songwriter Kristin Mooney. The Huffington Post called it "one of the year's loveliest recordings."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Huffington Post: New Indie Music Gems )〕 Holley announced that her eighth studio album, "Time in the Middle," will be released in June 2015. It was recorded at Sonic Temple studio in Ferndale, CA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=KG Music: Claire Holley to release Time in the Middle )〕 Ms. Holley now lives in the Los Angeles area with her husband, Chad.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Claire Holley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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