b. 3 June 1946, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Holman's claim to fame was the 1969 soul ballad "Hey There Lonely Girl", sung in a piercing falsetto style. Holman began playing keyboards and guitar as a child and studied music at schools in New York City and Pennsylvania. He first recorded in 1962 for the small Leopard Records and later with the Cameo/Parkway company. He collected minor chart hits for that company and then signed with ABC in 1968. "Hey There Lonely Girl" was a remake of a song originally recorded by Ruby And The Romantics as "Hey There Lonely Boy". Holman changed the gender and took the song to number 2 in the US charts in 1970. Four years later the song reached number 4 in the UK. He continued to have lesser R&B hits on the Parkway label with "This Can't Be True" (1965) and "I'm A Loser" (1966). Releases during the early 70s kept the singer in the US soul chart while his career enjoyed a brief revival in 1977 with "This Will Be A Night To Remember" and "You Make My Life Complete". He recorded on such labels as Polydor and Salsoul in the 70s and recorded for his own label, Agape, as a Christian artist in the early 90s.

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