Holly Palmer

After stints on the New York lounge circuit and as the back-up singer for David Bowie, Plamer took a break from music and enrolled in an acting class. There, she says, she began to discover how better to put her feelings into words. The experience gave way to her latest album, I Confess (Warner Bros.), an inventive hip-hop-inflected collection of songs about loss and betrayal on which Palmer puts no punches. "If I write about what's going on in my life, there's no need to apologize," she says. "It's like what Charels Bukowski said: 'What matters most is how well you walk through the fire,' because in hell there's going to be lot's of it."

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