Hollye Dexter

Author and Singer

Hollye Dexter is author of the memoir Fire Season (She Writes Press, 2015) and co-editor of Dancing at the Shame Prom (Seal Press)-- praised by bestselling author Gloria Feldt (former CEO of Planned Parenthood) as “…a brilliant book that just might change your life.” She also spent the pandemic writing two novels which are currently being recorded as audiobooks. Her essays and articles about women’s issues, activism and politics have been published in anthologies as well as in Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire and more. In 2003, she founded the award-winning nonprofit Art and Soul, running arts workshops for teenagers in the foster care system. She is a hands-on mom who lives in the mountains outside of L.A., where she hikes with her husband every day.

Fire Season

Who would you be if you lost everything? Home, jobs, friendships? And who would you choose to become in the face of that adversity? This is our story.

Dancing at the Shame Prom

A soulful collection of women's stories about the courage to dance in the face of shame, celebrating the beauty of being your truest self in every moment.

Music

Hollye Dexter began her career as a background singer and later released two albums of original music with her husband/producer Troy Dexter. She has sung on national commercials for such companies as Tower records, Geico Insurance, ESPN and the Coca Cola company. Her credits as a background singer include performances with Blake Shelton, Stephen Bishop, Rumer, Howard Jones, Dionne Warwick, Micky Dolenz, Moby, Don Felder, Carnie Wilson, Gloria Loring, Michael McDonald, Rosemary Butler, Mary Wilson (of The Supremes), The Omaha Symphony, Carl Verheyen, the King Family and others. Since 2023 she has been performing, recording and touring with the Carl Verheyen Band, along with her guitarist/ keyboardist husband Troy Dexter.

She has recording credits on over thirty albums, as well as projects for Rhino Records and Walt Disney records and films.

Her original music can be purchased on iTunes or streamed on Spotify.

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