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Infobox musical artist| image = SH Pic 1.jpg| name = Steve Holy| background = solo_singer| birth_date = birth date and age|1972|02|23| origin = Dallas, Texas , USA | instrument = Vocals | genre = country music|Country | occupation = Singer | years_active = 1999present| label = Curb Records|Curb | website = http://www.steveholy.com SteveHoly.com| associated_acts = Wilbur Rimes Lee Thomas Miller Steve Holy (born February 23, 1972) is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records since 1999, he has released three studio albums: 2000's Blue Moon (Steve Holy album)|Blue Moon 2006's Brand New Girlfriend and 2011's '' Love Don't Run . Fifteen of his singles have entered the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the Number One hits " Good Morning Beautiful (song)|Good Morning Beautiful " (which was featured in the movie Angel Eyes (film)|Angel Eyes ) and " Brand New Girlfriend (song)|Brand New Girlfriend ".
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Early life
Steve Holy was born February 23, 1972 in Dallas, Texas as the youngest of eight children.cite web |url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p384504|pure_url=yes |title=Steve Holy biography |accessdate=2008-06-29 |last=Johnson |first=Zac |work= Allmusic He entered a local competition called the Mesquite Opry at age nineteen. While there, he caught the attention of Wilbur Rimes, the father of country singer LeAnn Rimes . By 1999, Holy was signed to Curb Records .
20002001: Blue Moon
His first single for the label, "Don't Make Me Beg", peaked at #29 on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard country charts in 2000. By October of that year, Holy's debut album, Blue Moon (Steve Holy album)|Blue Moon , was released. Its second and third singles, which were the title track and "The Hunger", respectively, both reached #24 on the country charts. The album sold poorly, and many record stores began returning copies to the label.cite web|url= http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1539426/holy-resurfaces-with-brand-new-girlfriend.jhtml|title=Holy resurfaces with "Brand New Girlfriend"|last=Morris|first=Edward|date=25 August 2006|work= CMT |accessdate=13 April 2010
Late in 2001, Holy reached Number One for the first time with " Good Morning Beautiful (song)|Good Morning Beautiful ,"cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2008|page=192|isbn=0-89820-177-2 a selection from the soundtrack to the film Angel Eyes (film)|Angel Eyes . This song spent five weeks at Number One on the country charts and reached #29 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Blue Moon eventually went Gold nine years after its release in February 2009.
20022010: Non-album singles and Brand New Girlfriend
Holy released his fifth single, "I'm Not Breakin'," in late 2002. This song peaked at #27 on the country music charts. This was followed by four more singles over the next two years: "Rock-a-Bye Heart" at #37 in 2003, "Put Your Best Dress On" at #26 in 2004, "Go Home" and "It's My Time (Waste It If I Want To)" at #49 and #59, respectively, in 2005. None of these five singles was included on a studio album.
In 2005, Holy released " Brand New Girlfriend (song)|Brand New Girlfriend ," co-written by Jeffrey Steele , Shane Minor and Bart Allmand. This song became Holy's second Number One on the country charts, reaching the top of the charts in its thirty-sixth week and setting a record for the slowest climb to Number One on that chart since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in 1990. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/chart_beat/bonus_display.jsp? vnu_content_id=1003122345 Chart Beat (This record was broken one year later by Tracy Lawrence , whose " Find Out Who Your Friends Are " reached Number One in its forty-first chart week.) "Brand New Girlfriend" was the lead-off single to Holy's second studio album, also entitled Brand New Girlfriend . This album also produced the lesser Top 40 country hits "Come On Rain" and "Men Buy the Drinks (Girls Call the Shots)" at #35 and #38. Also included on the album were a cover version of Hank Williams, Jr. 's " All for the Love of Sunshine " and a song co-written by United States Senator Orrin Hatch .
A thirteenth single, "Might Have Been", was released in mid-2008 and on the chart week of December 27, 2008 debuted at #60 on the Hot Country Songs chart.
2011present: ''Love Don't Run
In February 2011, Holy released " Love Don't Run (song)|Love Don't Run ." The song became his first Top 20 hit on the country charts since "Brand New Girlfriend" in 2006. Holy's third studio album, also entitled '' Love Don't Run , was released on September 13, 2011.
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http://www.steveholy.com/ Steve Holy Official Website
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