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Community Activism Meets Art with Songwriter Hollis

Community Activism Meets Art with Songwriter Hollis

Update: 2020-01-11

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Hollis Wong-Wear, known creatively as Hollis, is an LA-based artist with roots in poetry and music. Hollis started her professional artistic journey by taking big risks, and somewhere along the way ended up with a Grammy nomination in 2014 for The Heist by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Listen as Hollis explains how she grew to love LA and centers activism in the music industry.

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Community Activism Meets Art with Songwriter Hollis

Community Activism Meets Art with Songwriter Hollis

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