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"Naked I came from my mother's womb and Naked shall I return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; Blessed be the name of the Lord." (Job 1:21). Singing at the Memorial Mass for her friend, Barbara Olson, who was killed in the American Airlines plane that smashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, singer/songwriter, Holly Cross Vagley, learned that music could be a force for good and not just a good time. In the aftermath, questions of, "Why, God?" soon changed to "What? What do you want me to do?" Holly's debut CD is the answer to that prayer. Changing her name and turning her back on 20 years in the secular entertainment world, Holly, her husband, Bob, and two-time Grammy-winning engineer/producer, Jim Robeson, created her debut CD: NAKED (Job 1:21). Admiring an eclectic mix of singers from Maria Callas to Macy Gray and writers from Rodgers & Hammerstein to Maroon Five, NAKED features Holly singing nine of her own tunes and a favorite hymn. A conversation between a modern day Mary Magdalene and Jesus is "Night and Day". The 23rd psalm is reimagined as a love song in "With You". Stranded at the altar Holly feels "Invisible". Mel Gibson's film, "When We Were Soldiers." inspired "When the Rain Comes Down," which was written on a cocktail napkin in a Vietnamese restaurant. "Why Not Try Jesus?" pokes fun at the ad campaign, "Got Milk?". The nine originals are rounded out by the American spiritual, "Softly and Tenderly."