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Holly Auna (born January 3, 1993) is an American artist, musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, guitarist, lead singer and founder of her Nashville indie band, YouTube personality, TikTok personality, film maker, and entrepreneur. Spotify official playlists showcase her music. Auna independently released an extended play which was a studio album entitled "Love Shouldn't Be So Hard" on June 7, 2019. Auna's EP rose to #12 on Apple itunes music record charts in the category of singer-songwriter. Auna was born in Kentucky and grew up in Indiana and graduated from Belmont University where she earned a degree in Entertainment Industry Studies with high academic distinction. All of Auna's work is composed, arranged and produced by herself. She tours regularly and performs at concerts and music festivals throughout the world. Auna serves as an ambassador for Hot Topic and represented them at a BTS event in 2020 that was presented by iHeartRadio.

Music career and Influences
Holly Auna started playing shows in Indiana and Kentucky at age 14. She created and uploaded her original songs every week for 100 consecutive weeks on YouTube and gained wide exposure. From this exposure, she inked a music licensing deal with Disney that included her original work on it was with this youtube channel called "Disney Stars". .

In 2017, Auna received her first cut as a songwriter for the song "There's This Boy" on country artist Tenille Arts "Rebel Child" album which reached #4 on the Country iTunes Charts. "Harmonies For the Hear", Auna's debut EP, was released in 2019. A music industry reviewer highlighted and described the songs contained in this release as follows:

“Secrets” is one of those songs that’s immediately contagious, with its pleasant harmonies and head bopping rhythms: “Why don’t you tell me all the secrets you keep?” “Home to Me” is a ballad designed to shower your lover with love. “Until I Try” is a nostalgic, ethereal heady song of guarded hope — you’ll never know until you try. “Already Lost” is a downward stepping “I was trapped in a slow disaster.. I was lost when I found you.” The EP is a collection of open, affectionate songs where harmonies reign and acoustics are clear."

"Water", a song Auna released in 2020, was described by one reviewer as follows:"Water" opens with mellow guitar picking and Holly Auna's pure vocals as she sings the understanding of what's at stake and that she'll continue to wait for them to reappear someday. The instrumentals are very emotional, especially with the droning electric guitars that rain down from above, Holly Auna keeps the track alive with her heartfelt lyrics that show pure-hearted vulnerability."

Auna provided input on her songwriting style and performance purpose in an interview in which she noted "Ryan Oetken (one of her co-writers) and I walk into writers’ rooms with no expectations – no goals of who to sound like or who might cut these songs – we just write. We enjoy writing poetic lyrics with cohabitating lead melody lines that still harmonize with each other."

Albums

 * Love Shouldn't Be So Hard (2019) No. 12 Apple iTunes Singer Songwriter Album Chart

EPs

 * Harmonies for the Heart (2019) No. 27 Apple iTunes Singer Songwriter Album Chart

Singles

 * "Secrets" (2019) written by Holly Auna and Ryan Oetken, playlisted by Spotify curators
 * "Water" (2020) written by Holly Auna, Lydia Dall, and John Townsend
 * "Where Were We" (2018) written by Constant Za and Ian McConnell, featuring Holly Auna
 * "Witches" (2018) written by Holly Auna, Lydia Dall and Michelle Pereira
 * "Until I Try" (2019) written by Holly Auna and Ryan Oetken
 * "Home to Me" (2019) written by Holly Auna and Ryan Oetken
 * "Poison" (2018) written by Holly Auna and Ryan Oetken
 * "Already Lost" (2019) written by Holly Auna and Ryan Oetken
 * "Survivors" (2019) written by Holly Auna
 * "Meet Me at Midnight" (2019) written by Holly Auna, Ryan Oetken, Tristen Smith, Madison Smith
 * "Starling Darling" (2019) written by Holly Auna and Jessica Bolin