HOLLY has released his highly-anticipated solo EP, Minha Vida – Love today via his new iLex Records imprint via InGrooves/UMG. The new EP opens the first chapter of his ambitious three-part Minha Vida EP series. Healing and spirituality play a large role in the Minha Vida series, with the music of Minha Vida – Love personifying HOLLY’s own inner struggle, beauty, and strength.
The music is HOLLY’s way of processing the emotions that came from this challenging period, with the amorphous and colorful EP cover art acting as the emotional “aura” he felt when writing. He worked closely with artist Michael McAfee to develop custom colors that help represent the complexity of the feelings he was experiencing, which is infused in the music as well.
HOLLY said of the release, “This EP is a project where I just wanted to represent how my current life sounds. I wanted to create a project where it’s just me being creative and expressing myself without having other people interfering with it creatively. I feel like in the past years I haven’t been totally honest with the way I sound, since a lot of my work ends up being with other people and I felt like my life was calling me to do a project where I’m just sharing the sounds and ideas of my mind. Most of the EP was created while I was still in Portugal during the peak of the pandemic. It was a time of a lot of thinking about the world and life so I wanted to bring all these stories and concepts into each song and let it talk for itself.”