Andrew Hollander- keys/producer/cowriter
Shawn Pelton- drums
Rich Pagano- drums
Joe Bonadio- drums
Steve Conte- guitar
John Conte- bass
Duck Blackwell- cowriter on Hung Up with Andrew and me
Influences
Stevie Wonder, Donnie Hathaway, Yolanda Adams, Bill Withers, Earth Wind and Fire, Whitney, Mariah, Phyllis Hyman, The Beatles, Hall and Oates, Roberta Flack, Billie Holiday, Dakota Staton, Elton, Dinah Washington, Aretha, Carole King, Allan Rich (songwriter), James Ingram, Shirley Murdoch, Louis Armstrong, Pat Benatar, Annie Lenox, Brian McKnight, Mahalia Jackson, James Lloyd, Diane Reeves, Gladys Knight, Barry Manilow, Mike Errico, Holly Palmer, Patty Griffin, Coldplay, Keane, Toni Braxton, Babyface, Janis Joplin, Billy Porter, Sade, Michael Jackson, Jackson 5, Diane Warren, Damien Rice, Maroon 5, Queen, and anyone who writes amazing songs and sings 'em like they mean it.
Sounds Like
Norah Jones, Sarah McLachlan, Carole King, Sheryl Crow, mostly herself
I am an old fashioned girl. I still want music to be transporting and meaningful like it was for me as a child. I knew as a three-year-old, and announced to my family, that I would be a singer when I grew up. A girl on a mission, some things never change.
My earliest memories are of playing records on my first little stereo with these giant headphones. I was barely eight when I was singing my lungs out to Pat Benatar not realizing everyone in the house could hear me. I’d wait til I thought they were asleep, and every night I got into trouble for being up singing past midnight.
I wrote and recorded my first song, brilliantly entitled “Only You and Me”, when I was thirteen. Looking back, it’s actually a good little pop song. I am forever grateful to my eternally supportive voice teacher, Paul Adkins, for seeing to it that I got into the studio and made that recording. He even sang back-up.
I have never looked back, and although I am flattered to be asked to write for some very well-known artists, I am happiest writing for myself. I hope there’s a little girl out there tonight who is blasting my CD into her headphones way past her bedtime.
A few highlights for me are: making this record with amazing musicians/engineers whose collective credits include: Sheryl Crow, David Bowie, Counting Crows, Fefe Dobson, Paul Simon, NY Dolls etc...
---My song, Watch Me Fly, being the end title cut for the feature film Gray Matters starring Heather Graham and Sissy Spacek. It will also be featured in the trailer of Fox Feature film The Redemption of Sarah Caine due out this fall.
---singing backgrounds for Michael Jackson at Madison Square Garden
---I got to play at the legendary Bottom Line in NYC right before they closed, it was so cool!
To hear more, go to danaparish.com.
---hearing my song for the first time on the radio. (i was home so didn't crash my car)
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Here's my EPK:
Not My Problem performance in NY's On The Circuit:
Dear Dan,Wow!!! I am blown away. Listen to you all the time.Really love the new song. Sweetheart you are truly a star! I know J and Roo Roo came to see you perform last week. J told me that Ruby was sitting watching you in fascination. Wish I was there. I Miss you and Love you always, xoxoxoxoxoxox Ei
I hope that when you play in Nashville, I can meet you. You are a talented, amazing woman.I have so much respect for you and your music. True life lessons delivered beautifully.
thanks so much for finding me & requesting an add. You have an AMAZING voice, you sound so full of soul. I agree w/you - music should be meaningful - and the lyrics, more than just something to hang some rhythm on, if it has lyrics that are meant to make an arc out of the song.
I wish you a great success and happiness in your musical journey!
Dana Parish...has one of the best voices singing today. You really know how to make a song worth hearing over and over. Thank you for allowing me to be a friend...Art
