Holly Beth Vincent is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumental musician. Her band Holly and the Italians was one of the first American punk-pop bands led by a female and signed to a major label.[citation needed] She is often known for Holly and the Italian's 1980 song Tell That Girl to Shut Up (in 1988 a UK top 50 hit for Transvision Vamp).Her Holly Beth Vincent album, titled "Holly and the Italians" [to fulfill contractual obligations with Virgin Records] is one of Ira Robbins/Trouser Press record guide's top albums of all-time. In 1982, she arranged, sang, played instruments, co-produced (with Wham/George Michael producer Steve Brown), a duet/cover version of the song I Got You Babe, which became a cult hit and was a limited release on Virgin Records UK. After her contact expired, she moved back to the U.S., where she performed live around New York and the east coast with musicians Jimmy Rip, Fred Smith, Jay Dee Daugherty, Dolette McDonald, and Mary Davis. In the nineties, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she had grown up, and formed a band called The Oblivious, and wrote, played instruments, and was producer for an album called America for fan Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls.[citation needed] They toured extensively in the U.S. with the band Concrete Blonde. She then released an album called Vowel Movement with Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, which the women wrote, produced and performed. In the later nineties, she released a compilation of demo recordings called Demos Federico, from which a song was used as background for a 2011 episode of American Idol Season 10. Some other places her music appears are the song Mercy in the 1993 Tony Bill movie Untamed Heart, the (Vowel Movement) song Jesus in the 1997 indie-film The Boys Club, and again the song Tell That Girl to Shut Up in the 2003 MTV reality series, Rich Girls. Other of her songs recorded by artists include You Can Love Her by Shirley Manson circa the band Angelfish. In the 2000s, Holly has been voiceover talent in commercials for Nike, Pepsi, Squirt, and Nintendo.

Her most recent recording is Minnesota-California, released 2009. Previous to that is the largely electronic, self-performed album Super Rocket Star, in 2007. She is the sole writer and co-producer of both, and the main or sole guitarist on all her recordings.

Vincent was born in Chicago. Her mother is of Swedish and French background; her father, Italian. She was raised in Lake Tahoe and then southern California, where she attended high school. At age 18, she moved to London, where she lived with Chris Wood of the band Traffic and his wife.She dated Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits After she broke up with him, he wrote the songs "Romeo and Juliet," "Love Over Gold," and "It Never Rains" about her.