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Stevie Holland is an American jazz singer, cabaret performer and actress, and lyricist.

Born in Westchester County, New York, she moved to New York City to study drama at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Holland has toured nationally in the United States and performed in concert at Iridium Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall in New York City. Her cabaret performances earned her a Bistro Award from Back Stage magazine for "Outstanding Vocalist of the Year" (2004).

Holland is married to composer Gary William Friedman, with whom she has collaborated on several recording projects and theater productions. Her solo albums include Before Love Has Gone, which was picked as a top album of 2008 by USA Today. Two earlier albums, More Than Words Can Say (2004) and Restless Willow (2006), each charted on jazz radio stations across the United States.

She starred as Linda Lee Thomas, the wife of Cole Porter, in the Off-Broadway musical Love, Linda: The Life Of Mrs. Cole Porter (2009).

Discography

 * Do You Ever Dream (2000)
 * This Is America (single) (2001)
 * Almost Like Being In Love (2003)
 * Restless Willow (2004)
 * More Than Words Can Say (2006)
 * Before Love Has Gone (2008)
 * Love, Linda: The Life Of Mrs. Cole Porter (original cast album) (2010)