Hollie Steel

An article in today’s Blackburn Citizen has confirmed what we already know – that Hollie will be releasing her debut album this year.

If a major record label does not pick up the option to release the album, Hollie’s family will release it on their own BB5 record label, named after the Accrington postcode.

Nina told the Citizen: “This year will be an amazing one for us. Last year Hollie was on national TV with Britain’s Got Talent and we now want to keep her profile as high as we can.

“The big thing for us this year is the album. It will definitely come out this year, even if we have to release it ourselves.

“Hopefully one day soon someone big will come along and sign her up. At the moment there are things and jobs that are coming along but nothing major.

“Hollie is just enjoying her singing and is happy, we are even planning to film some music videos to promote her.”

You can read the full article here. A similar story also appears in the Lancashire Telegraph.

Hollie Steel has been interviewed by Jason Dowd of the Expressionist and you can download to the Podcast here.

Jason has also written a lovely article about Hollie, entitled “Nerves Of Steel – Hollie Steel” which you can read in its entirety here.

Organisers of a village show in Doncaster have raised money by auctioning an autographed tour programme for Britain’s Got Talent. The sale of the programme raised almost £125, according to the South Yorkshire star, and attracted bids from Canada and the US aswell as the UK.

The programme was signed by Hollie Steel, Susan Boyle, Diversity, Aiden Davis, Flawless, Shaheen Jafargholi, Julian Smith, Shaun Smith, Stavros Flatley and 2Grand, who are from Doncaster, as well as TV host Stephen Mulhern and 2008 winner George Sampson.

The proceeds of the sale will be used to fund the next Auckley Village Show.