Born and raised in southwestern Pennsylvania, Bri Holland (she/they) found her early passion for music in school choir and community theater. Continuing her music education at the University of Chicago, she earned international acclaim in a cappella communities as a singer, vocal arranger, music director, studio artist, and audio engineer. Internships with Nakturnal Entertainment in Pittsburgh, PA and ATO Records in New York, NY rooted her in grassroots/indie values and commercial/label sensibilities.
During her time in Chicago, IL and later Columbus, OH, Bri developed and operated a one-stop-shop vocal production business - arranging, coaching, recording, editing, and mixing hundreds of songs by independent vocalists & a cappella groups. At 19, she founded FReestyle, an a cappella summer camp at her former high school that she ran and directed for six consecutive years. As Special Projects Manager of the Women’s A Cappella Association, she arranged and produced complex collaborative tracks featuring headlining artists at the annual SheSings (later WeSing) festival in Oakland, CA. As an artist, she co-founded and music-directed vocal supergroup, Lady Jaye, and produced their 2015 album Flux.
After moving to Los Angeles, Bri joined the Young Musicians Foundation (YMF) as a Teaching Artist, working with students from pre-kindergarten through high school in both intra- and extra-curricular general music, choir, and music technology programming. She spearheaded YMF's 2020 AMPLIFY: WiSE (Women in Sound Engineering) initiative, an after-school program (in partnership with the Mayor's Office and Capitol Records) devoted to servicing high school girls & gender-expansive students interested in the science of music recording & production. In 2022, Bri mentored young songwriters and participated as lead recording engineer and producer in the collaborative Music Fellowship between the Los Angeles LGBT Center and Inner-City Arts.
In the Film/TV Music realm, Bri has extensive and varied credits. She recorded and edited a cappella music featuring vocalists from the Archer School for Girls for Annalise Ophelian's docu-series Looking for Leia (2019 SyFy). In collaboration with songwriter & executive music producer Alana Da Fonseca, she coached, produced, and edited the musical cast vocals for animated series Trolls: TrollsTopia (2020-22 DreamWorks), Madagascar: A Little Wild (2020-22 DreamWorks), and Princess Power (2023 Netflix). She was the lead engineer and vocal producer for VStar Entertainment live stage show for kids, Trolls: LIVE!. Bri's songwriting has been featured on numerous episodes of Nickelodeon's Alvinnn!!! And the Chipmunks.
As a vocal editor, Bri engineered the film music vocals & soundtrack vocals for 2021 musical feature films Vivo (for which she also provided singing vocals as Sand Dollar Becky), tick, tick… BOOM!, and Dear Evan Hansen, and she engineered and prepped vocal demos for musical features Cyrano and Spirited. In 2022, Bri was honored with an MPSE nomination in the 69th Annual Golden Reel Awards for her editing work on tick, tick... BOOM! for "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature - Music." Continuing her work with orchestrator & music supervisor Alex Lacamoire, Bri was the vocal editing engineer for the 2023 Broadway revival cast recording of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which was nominated by the Recording Academy for "Best Musical Theater Album" in the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
In the Indie Music realm, Bri's songwriting can be heard on albums by Ariel Arbisser (Risk of Love, 2021) and BEVERLEE (Purple Violin, 2021). Her own original song "Louder" claimed first place in the IMSTA FESTA 2019 Los Angeles songwriting competition. She went on to win the IMSTA FESTA 2020 Worldwide songwriting competition for her song "Lockdown with Love". Bri's range of vocal production and engineering can further be heard on musical theater cast recording AZUL (2023, music by Jacinta Clusellas), pop artist Sadie's Phases (2022), country artist Jennifer Nettles' Always Like New (2021), beatboxer Track IX's Kiss My Mama (2016) + Exclamation Points (2018), a cappella vocalist Lisa Forkish's Love Warrior (2017), and more.
Bri has performed backup vocals for pop artist The Weeknd's 2022 album Dawn FM, as well as for artists Rosa Linn, James Delaney, and more. Her singing can further be heard on films such as American Pie: Girls' Rules (2020), Alone (2020), Honey Girls (2021), Vivo (2021), Honor Society (2022), Senior Year (2022), The Noel Diary (2022), Tall Girl 2 (2022), and The School for Good and Evil (2022), and television series such as Wednesday (2022), Minx (2023), Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023), The Afterparty (2023), Bugs Bunny Builders (2023), and more.
In the Commercial/Sync realm, Bri's clients include Dentsu McGarryBowen, VStar Entertainment, Disney, Universal, Sony, Warner, WWE, American Express, EA Games, and more.
Bri has led seminars and participated in panels on topics ranging from recording engineering, to gender dynamics/diversity in modern music communities, to film music editing, to songwriting. She has spoken at music festivals, film festivals, and schools/universities, including SheSings Festival (Oakland School for the Arts), the Los Angeles A Cappella Festival (USC), SoJam Festival (Durham, NC), Boston Sings Festival (Tufts University), AcaFest (University of Chicago), Camp A Cappella (Wright State University), Baldwin Wallace University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Sioux City International Film Festival.
Bri currently resides in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. She is passionate about inclusive music education, radical progressive politics, media criticism, and creative social theory. She is a Virgo.
During her time in Chicago, IL and later Columbus, OH, Bri developed and operated a one-stop-shop vocal production business - arranging, coaching, recording, editing, and mixing hundreds of songs by independent vocalists & a cappella groups. At 19, she founded FReestyle, an a cappella summer camp at her former high school that she ran and directed for six consecutive years. As Special Projects Manager of the Women’s A Cappella Association, she arranged and produced complex collaborative tracks featuring headlining artists at the annual SheSings (later WeSing) festival in Oakland, CA. As an artist, she co-founded and music-directed vocal supergroup, Lady Jaye, and produced their 2015 album Flux.
After moving to Los Angeles, Bri joined the Young Musicians Foundation (YMF) as a Teaching Artist, working with students from pre-kindergarten through high school in both intra- and extra-curricular general music, choir, and music technology programming. She spearheaded YMF's 2020 AMPLIFY: WiSE (Women in Sound Engineering) initiative, an after-school program (in partnership with the Mayor's Office and Capitol Records) devoted to servicing high school girls & gender-expansive students interested in the science of music recording & production. In 2022, Bri mentored young songwriters and participated as lead recording engineer and producer in the collaborative Music Fellowship between the Los Angeles LGBT Center and Inner-City Arts.
In the Film/TV Music realm, Bri has extensive and varied credits. She recorded and edited a cappella music featuring vocalists from the Archer School for Girls for Annalise Ophelian's docu-series Looking for Leia (2019 SyFy). In collaboration with songwriter & executive music producer Alana Da Fonseca, she coached, produced, and edited the musical cast vocals for animated series Trolls: TrollsTopia (2020-22 DreamWorks), Madagascar: A Little Wild (2020-22 DreamWorks), and Princess Power (2023 Netflix). She was the lead engineer and vocal producer for VStar Entertainment live stage show for kids, Trolls: LIVE!. Bri's songwriting has been featured on numerous episodes of Nickelodeon's Alvinnn!!! And the Chipmunks.
As a vocal editor, Bri engineered the film music vocals & soundtrack vocals for 2021 musical feature films Vivo (for which she also provided singing vocals as Sand Dollar Becky), tick, tick… BOOM!, and Dear Evan Hansen, and she engineered and prepped vocal demos for musical features Cyrano and Spirited. In 2022, Bri was honored with an MPSE nomination in the 69th Annual Golden Reel Awards for her editing work on tick, tick... BOOM! for "Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature - Music." Continuing her work with orchestrator & music supervisor Alex Lacamoire, Bri was the vocal editing engineer for the 2023 Broadway revival cast recording of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which was nominated by the Recording Academy for "Best Musical Theater Album" in the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards.
In the Indie Music realm, Bri's songwriting can be heard on albums by Ariel Arbisser (Risk of Love, 2021) and BEVERLEE (Purple Violin, 2021). Her own original song "Louder" claimed first place in the IMSTA FESTA 2019 Los Angeles songwriting competition. She went on to win the IMSTA FESTA 2020 Worldwide songwriting competition for her song "Lockdown with Love". Bri's range of vocal production and engineering can further be heard on musical theater cast recording AZUL (2023, music by Jacinta Clusellas), pop artist Sadie's Phases (2022), country artist Jennifer Nettles' Always Like New (2021), beatboxer Track IX's Kiss My Mama (2016) + Exclamation Points (2018), a cappella vocalist Lisa Forkish's Love Warrior (2017), and more.
Bri has performed backup vocals for pop artist The Weeknd's 2022 album Dawn FM, as well as for artists Rosa Linn, James Delaney, and more. Her singing can further be heard on films such as American Pie: Girls' Rules (2020), Alone (2020), Honey Girls (2021), Vivo (2021), Honor Society (2022), Senior Year (2022), The Noel Diary (2022), Tall Girl 2 (2022), and The School for Good and Evil (2022), and television series such as Wednesday (2022), Minx (2023), Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023), The Afterparty (2023), Bugs Bunny Builders (2023), and more.
In the Commercial/Sync realm, Bri's clients include Dentsu McGarryBowen, VStar Entertainment, Disney, Universal, Sony, Warner, WWE, American Express, EA Games, and more.
Bri has led seminars and participated in panels on topics ranging from recording engineering, to gender dynamics/diversity in modern music communities, to film music editing, to songwriting. She has spoken at music festivals, film festivals, and schools/universities, including SheSings Festival (Oakland School for the Arts), the Los Angeles A Cappella Festival (USC), SoJam Festival (Durham, NC), Boston Sings Festival (Tufts University), AcaFest (University of Chicago), Camp A Cappella (Wright State University), Baldwin Wallace University, UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Sioux City International Film Festival.
Bri currently resides in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. She is passionate about inclusive music education, radical progressive politics, media criticism, and creative social theory. She is a Virgo.