Real name: Holly Erlanger

Effective period / Period of releases: 1983 - 1988

Holly Knight is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter and musician, having written hits for artists such as Tina Turner, Pat Benatar, Heart, Cheap Trick and many others. She was a member of the band Device (2) and was born in New York. Currently, she works as a music producer in Los Angeles.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013.
She's charted 40 times (including 16 top 10 songs) between 1980 and 2011 on the U.S. and/or U.K. charts as a songwriter and once as an artist. Her single which she also wrote "Heart Don't Fail Me Now" reached #59 in 1988. Some of her best-known written songs include: "Obsession" by Animotion (co-written by Michael Des Barres) hit #6 in the U.S. and #5 in the U.K. in 1985. "The Best" by Tina Turner (co-written by Mike Chapman) hit #15 in the U.S. and #5 in the U.K. in 1989 "Love Is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar (also co-written by Mike Chapman) hit #5 (#1 rock) in the U.S. and #49 in the U.K. in 1983.