| Holly Hull | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Holly-Anne Hull |
| Born | 17 October 1994 |
| Origin | Camberley, Surrey |
| Occupations |
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| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Member of | Remember Monday |
| Website | hollyannehull |
Holly-Anne Hull (born 17 October 1994) is a British singer from Camberley in Surrey. After performing for Elizabeth II in 2006, she won the Disney Channel UK talent search My Camp Rock in April 2009 and released a version of "This Is Me" alongside a music video. She has also played various roles in Copacabana, Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood, Loserville, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, and Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends. In 2013, she formed the country-pop girl group eventually named Remember Monday with two people she met whilst in college. The band went on to reach the Knockout stages of the eighth series of The Voice UK, perform on The Jennifer Hudson Show, and represent the BBC at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with "What the Hell Just Happened?".
Holly-Anne Hull [1] was born on 17 October 1994 [2] and is from Camberley in Surrey. [3] She started singing aged seven. [4] She attended Our Lady’s Preparatory School in Crowthorne, [5] Licensed Victuallers' School, [4] and the London School of Musical Theatre [6] and trained with West End Kids. [7] Her first performances were with Stagecoach Performing Arts. By May 2006, Hull had joined Guildford School of Acting and National Youth Music Theatre; that month, as part of the latter, she performed at Elizabeth II's 80th Birthday celebrations at Windsor Castle. She met Elizabeth and Princess Beatrice after the performance and was asked by the former why she was not wearing shoes. [5] In April 2009, she won the Disney Channel UK competition My Camp Rock , [4] the prize for which was recording her own version of "This Is Me" alongside a music video. [8] A subsequent performance of the song at a school assembly was filmed by a Disney TV crew. [9] Hull was subsequently signed and dropped by Disney. [10]
| Round | Song choice | Original artist | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audition | "This is Me" | Demi Lovato | Advanced |
| Bootcamp | "Listen" | Beyoncé | Advanced |
| Camp Jam | "Here I Am" | Camp Rock | Advanced |
| Final Jam | "This is Me" | Demi Lovato | Winner |
In 2013, Hull formed Houston with Lauren Byrne and Charlotte Steele, [11] who she had met at Sixth Form College, Farnborough. [12] The following year, she appeared in Copacabana, though this folded after running into financial difficulties, [a] and played Maid Marian in a production of Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood at Grove Theatre in Dunstable. She won the latter part at Panto Factor, [15] a local talent contest to find the role of Marian and Hood; [16] Steve Sims of Leighton Buzzard Online wrote that both the contest's winners, Hull and Eleanor Sandars, "slotted seamlessly" into the production. [15] Hull then played Holly Manson in Loserville in 2015; writing of a March edition, Time Out wrote that Hull and Luke Newton were "adorbs enough" as Manson and Michael Dork, [17] while Daniel Coleman Cooke of BritishTheatre.com wrote in December 2015 that Hull had a "superb voice" but felt that it was sometimes drowned out by the band. [18] Hull has stated that she was unemployed between performances and was the only returnee. [7]
Houston changed their name to Remember Monday in 2018. [19] By the following January, both Hull and Steele had begun teaching at Bracknell theatre schools, Hull at BARTA Theatre Academy. That month, Remember Monday performed on The Voice UK series 8, [6] where they reached the Knockout stages. [20] By August 2019, Hull had performed an ensemble role in Les Misérables and had covered as Cosette in both its international tour and in the West End of London; that month, she played a whore. [21] The following year, Hull took a post as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera; originally booked for 14 months, the production ended after the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom shut down the theatre industry and was eventually cancelled. [22] Hull has claimed to have undertaken 13 pre-pandemic performances. [23] After production reopened in July 2021, she took a role as an alternate for Daaé, with Lucy St. Louis taking on most performances; [24] she reclaimed the role full time in January 2023. [25]
In May 2022, Hull participated in a one-off performance at Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, a show mounted in tribute to the composer who had died the previous year; [26] she performed a solo on "Getting Married Today" and "A Weekend in the Country". [27] Remember Monday quit their jobs to perform music full time in September 2023 [28] and performed "Hand in My Pocket" by Alanis Morissette on The Jennifer Hudson Show in 2024. That October, they released an EP, Crazy Anyway. [29] On 7 February 2025, the band were announced as the BBC's entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 [30] by Nat O'Leary and Vicky Hawkesworth on their BBC Radio 1 show that morning. A month later, the BBC announced that they would do so with "What the Hell Just Happened?", [31] which subsequently charted at No. 95 on the UK singles chart. [32]
| Year | Song | Ref. |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | "This Is Me" | [33] |
| Year | Song | Album | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | "Getting Married Today" | Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends: A Celebration (Live at the Sondheim Theatre) | [33] |