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Pamela Polland (Pamela Anna Polland) was born on 15 August, 1944 in California, is an American singer-songwriter (born 1944). Discover Pamela Polland's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

Popular As Pamela Anna Polland
Occupation Singer-songwriter, teacher
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 15 August 1944
Birthday 15 August
Birthplace California
Nationality United States

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1920

The fictional Melba Rounds was a bawdy and lubricious blues and jazz madam whose repertoire spanned the 1920s to the 1940s.

Polland's "Melba Rounds Show" proved a hit in San Francisco, and was noted for its exuberance, extravagant costumes and dancers.

The Melba Rounds Show demonstrated the breadth of Polland's stylistic repertoire and spawned a ten-year stint for her as principal vocalist with The Golden Age jazz band.

Following the release of Heart of The World, Polland's self-published third solo album, she moved to Maui, Hawaii, and threw herself into local culture and music.

She took up the ukulele, studied local language, and became a hula dancer.

Polland is currently band leader of Keaolani, a four-piece ‘ukulele band tutored by Hawaiian cultural experts Kahauanu Lake and Walter Kamuala‘i Kawai‘ae‘a.

She is also the co-founder of Maui Film Music, through which she provides film and TV scores with Bobby Parrs.

1944

Pamela Anna Polland (born August 15, 1944 ) is an American singer-songwriter who made three albums for Epic and Columbia Records in the 1960s and 1970s and whose songs have been recorded by a number of popular artists.

1966

Her recording career began a few years later, in 1966, when she and singer-songwriter Rick Stanley formed the Gentle Soul, a folk band with psychedelic influences and an emphasis on creative and elaborate vocal harmonies.

Their self-titled album appeared on Epic Records together with a number of non-LP singles.

1970

Following the dissolution of the Gentle Soul, Polland set up home in Mill Valley, California, before joining Joe Cocker and Leon Russell for the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour in 1970.

She can be heard and seen in the ensuing double album and film documentary respectively.

Polland's songs have been recorded by a considerable number of popular artists from the 60s onwards.

1972

Her emergence as a solo artist began with the self-written album "Pamela Polland", which appeared on Columbia Records in 1972.

Owing to changes of personnel at Columbia, Polland's follow-up album, "Have You Heard The One About The Gas Station Attendant?"

1973

(1973), recorded in London with producer Gus Dudgeon and featuring guest appearances from Joan Armatrading, as well as several members of Elton John's band and renowned arranger Paul Buckmaster, was shelved.

The unreleased 1973 Columbia album, believed to be an artistic triumph, has been referred to by Polland as "some of my best work".

1976

These include Helen Reddy, who recorded "Music, Music" for her gold-selling album of the same name in 1976, and Linda Ronstadt, who recorded "I'd Like To Know".

Among the most widely recorded of her songs is "Tulsa County", which has been interpreted by The Byrds, Bobby Bare, Anita Carter, Jesse Ed Davis, and Son Volt.

1980

In the 1980s, she re-emerged as an independent recording artist and vocal coach, later working in film and TV scoring and Hawaiian music.

Pamela Polland composed her first song at the age of nine and by her teens was playing folk clubs.

During this period, she formed a two-year alliance with Ry Cooder who accompanied her for performances of blues material.

1981

Polland's achievements as an artist and performer in Hawaiian music are such that she was requested to appear at Tony Curtis's 81st birthday party as well as a command performance for Anthony Hopkins.

1995

Her next solo album was not to be until 1995's "Heart of the World", which combined her pop and jazz leanings with New Age sensibilities.

The album, produced by Gary Malkin (Graceful Passages), also sported guest spots from Kenny Loggins, Bonnie Raitt, The Byrds' Chris Hillman, as well as Mike Marshall and several other well recorded musicians.

2003

Public interest in the Epic/Columbia years was reawakened from 2003 onwards, when "The Gentle Soul" was reissued on CD in America.

This was followed by Japanese reissues of "The Gentle Soul" as well as "Pamela Polland".

Subsequently, both albums, along with "Heart Of The World", were made available on iTunes.

The "Pamela Polland" album is also part of the Pandora internet radio library.

2008

More recently, singer-songwriter Alela Diane recorded Polland's "See My Love" when she guested as a vocalist for The Headless Heroes' 2008 covers album, "The Silence of Love".

The original version of "See My Love" appeared on "The Gentle Soul".

By the 80s, Polland had also established herself as a vocal coach, and she later released the instructional DVD "Vocal Ease".

2010

In June 2010, Polland released "Hawaiianized", a five-track digital download EP available internationally via iTunes and other digital outlets.

The mini-album, part one of an envisaged series, featured pop classics interpreted in Hawaiian style with new vocal arrangements and 'ukulele accompaniment from Polland.

The collection was produced by John McFee of The Doobie Brothers, who had played on Polland's self-titled Columbia debut, and who also played a variety of acoustic and electric stringed instruments on the EP.

The set's distinctive background vocals were sung by Sharon Celani, famous for her work with Stevie Nicks and others.

"Hawaiianized" was bookended by two different versions of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", prompting Sam Arlen, son of the song's composer Harold Arlen, to comment, "This version of my father's classic composition lifts the spirit while still tugging at the heartstrings to remind us that there is really no place like home. This disc deserves a home in your collection."

Polland is married to designer Bill Ernst with whom she has settled in Hawaii on the island of Maui.

2019

It saw its first release in March 2019 when the BGO label released a CD compiling that album and Polland's 1972 debut.

The events at Columbia Records which curtailed Polland's first solo career prompted a change of direction, and – in the mid-seventies – she resumed activities under the name Melba Rounds.