Debra Holly

Debra Holly: I'll Never Forget You

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2001

When a singer’s name appears above the marquee, he (in this case, she) shouldn’t be upstaged by instrumental arrangements that threaten to engulf the voice. Unhappily, that is too often the case on Debra Holly’s I’ll Never Forget You, the first album by a Jazz vocalist on Metropolitan Records. Holly, a sylphlike soprano who has performed in a number of frameworks including musical comedy, cabaret, Jazz groups and as a back–up singer on recordings, has trouble elbowing her way past ...