Name |
Holly Williams |
Height |
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Naionality |
American |
Date of Birth |
12-March-1981 |
Place of Birth |
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Famous for |
Singing |
Holly Williams is an American singer-songwriter. She is the granddaughter of Hank Williams Sr., the daughter of Hank Williams, Jr. and half-sister of country singer Hank Williams III. Williams has released three studio albums: The Ones We Never Knew in 2004, Here with Me in 2009 and The Highway in 2013. The Highway was released on Williams' own label, Georgiana Records.
Williams graduated from Brentwood Academy and decided to pursue her passion of songwriting and continue playing guitar and piano. She bought her domain name, recorded an ep, started a fansite, and booked herself all over Nashville. Soon after signing with CAA, she performed hundreds of shows throughout the US and usually toured alone with a guitar and keyboard driving cars across the country. Eventually she began touring throughout Europe and the United Kingdom and building a loyal fan base there. After the release of her first EP in 2003, she signed with Universal South Records and toured with Billy Bob Thornton, Jewel, Train, Keith Urban, and Kasey Chambers among other artists. Universal South released her debut album, The Ones We Never Knew, in 2004. This album garnered Williams much critical acclaim and she headlined shows in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Spain, Australia, Wales, Ireland, and the US.
In March 2006, Williams was injured in a near-fatal car crash with her sister and canceled an upcoming European tour through Austria and Germany, this is when she started thinking of opening a clothing boutique. Her arm was injured and she wasn't sure how well she would heal to play the guitar. She wrote "Without Jesus Here With Me" about her experience during the time of the car accident. During the Christmas season Holly joined the stage with Daniel Lanois and Brady Blade at the Zion Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana for a cover of Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl". She also joined John C. Reilly in Nashville, Tn to sing "Let's Duet" during the release of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story on December 9, 2007. Soon after she signed with Luke Lewis at Mercury Records. Williams' second studio album, Here with Me, was released in June 2009. To promote the album, Williams appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Chelsea Lately and other television outlets. People Magazine named Williams' 2009 album "one of the top ten albums of the year".
Billboard said it was "one of the best singer/songwriter albums to come out of Nashville". USA Today said "there's purity and potency of her milk and whiskey kissed singing". Williams finished a six week tour in Europe in early 2010, and continued the rest of the year touring with John Hiatt. She took a great deal of time off of the road to begin writing for her next album. After Bob Dylan called, Holly added her own music and lyrics to a half written Hank Williams Sr. lyric for a project entitled The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams that he assembled, released in September 2011. Jack White, Norah Jones, Merle Haggard and Lucinda Williams were alongside Williams for this project.