CURRENT ARTISTS
Stevvi Alexander, Christian/Pop/Alternative
Tomas Doncker, Adult/Pop/Soul
David Joseph, Pop/Rock
Camelia Qabazard, Pop/Soul
NEWS
2008 Hollins Steele is currently working on the album "The Mercy Suite", a collection of songs based on the poetry of NYU professor and Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Yusef Komunyakaa. The album is a collaboration between Yusef Komunyakaa (poetry) and Tomas Doncker (music) and it is being produced by Tomas Doncker and Hollins Steele. Artists making appearances on this album include Meshell N’Degeocello, Corey Glover (Living Colour), Chocolate Genius, Marvin Sewell, Brandon Ross (Cassandra Wilson), Arturo O’Farrill (head of Latin Jazz at Lincoln Center) and singer/songwriter Morley (Universal France) among others.
5-07 Stevvi performs with Nelly Furtado on Leno.
3-07 Stevvi Alexander can be seen on TV in her role as a singer on the new showThe Wedding Bells which premiers on Fox on March 7th.
2-07 Benny Steele has just finished producing a hip hop track for rapper Hyphen-One, featuring Stevvi Alexander and rapper Pacewon, of The Outsidaz, who has also collaborated on songs with Eminem, Methodman, Redman, and many more.
2-07 Tomas Doncker track to be featured on album with John Lee Hooker and Koko Taylor.
2-07 Stevvi Alexander performs with Gwen Stefani on "Ellen" and "Jimmy Kimmel".
1-07 Stevvi Alexander and Tomas Doncker perform at NAMM in LA. Both artists are currently being produced by Hollins Steele.
11-06 Stevvi Alexander performs with Nelly Furtado on The American Music Awards on 11-21 and Jay Leno on 11-22.
11-06 Raphael Saadiq recorded bass on two tracks we are currently producing for Stevi Alexander.
9-06 Dayna sings on David Letterman’s Late Show with Fergie
6-06 Hollins Steele is a winner in the Pop Performance category of the 2005 Unisong International Songwriting Competition!
5-06 Hollins Steele score big this month with multiple honorable mentions by Billboard in their 2006 song contest, winner in the Kweevak "Music Project of the Year" Reader’s Survey Awards and Hollins Steele (Dayna representing) was selected by ASCAP as one of ten advanced songwriters to particpate in the ASCAP Extended Songwriter’s Workshop in June. All Hollins Steele songs are recorded, mixed and produced at their recording studio, The Steele Factory.
ABOUT THE HOLLINS STEELE PRODUCTION TEAM
The New York City based songwriter/producer duo, Hollins Steele (Dayna Hollins and Benny Steele) own The Steele Factory, a state-of-the-art recording studio and production house, where they produce and write for artists in the pop, rock, R&B and hip hop genres.
Hollins Steele has worked with and recorded musicians at The Steele Factory including: Q-Tip, Raphael Saadiq, Fergie, Meshell N’Degeocello, Roy Ayers, Corey Glover (Living Colour), Chocolate Genius aka Marc Anthony Thomspon, Dede Bridgwater, Amp Fiddler (George Clinton, Parliament/Funkadelic), Arturo O’Farrill, Daniel Sadownick (Steeley Dan), Booker King (Santana, Kelis), Tomas Doncker (Madonna, Bonnie Raitt), Matt Beck (Matchbox 20, Rob Thomas), John Deley (Dido), Ken Hellman (Sting) and jazz greats: Lincoln Goines, Robbie Ameen, Michael Cain, Gregoire Maret and Reuben Rodriguez.
Hollins Steele is currently producing songs for the following upcoming albums: inspirational/pop/rock album by singer/songwriter Stevvi Alexander (Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani), pop/rock singer David Joseph, and pop/soul singer Camelia Qabazard. They just completed production on the newly released album, Inside Out, by pop/soul singer Tomas Doncker, and they have produced rock singer Colby Prior (opened for Gavin Degraw). Benny Steele mixed rapper Theory’s Plan B: Theory is Everything (which had a track at 1 on Kiss FM 96.1) and engineered trance artist Jan Johnston’s vocal tracks for an upcoming Paul Oakenfold release.
Hollins Steele recently completed a pop/rock album, Songs from Vanderbilt Avenue, which they wrote and produced. Their work on Songs from Vanderbilt Avenue has earned them stellar 5 star reviews, a winning song in the Unisong International Songwriting Competition 2005 (Pop Performance category), multiple honorable mentions (Billboard, Unisong) and awards (2006 Kweevak “Music Project of the Year” Reader’s Survey Winner). Hollins Steele was one of ten advanced songwriters selected for the ASCAP Extended Songwriter’s Workshop in June 2006.
Dayna and Benny have signed licensing deals with Red Bull Energy Drink for international advertising purposes and WACBIZ, among others.
They both attended New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where they received Bachelor of Music degrees. Benny attended NYU’s graduate program in Music Technology and has since recorded countless full albums, demos and voice-overs. Benny is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
North East In-Tune Magazine says of Hollins Steele: “very well written and produced and the overall sound is…that of perfection”.
