Bio

Luke Stephen Mulholland (born April 21, 1989) is a Canadian-American guitarist, singer, composer and songwriter. The combination of schooling as well as years of session work and live performance has forged Mulholland’s signature guitar sound, which is best described as blues-based at its roots, layered with complex, jazz-infused chord voicings and an improvisational ability as a soloist that truly shines in the live show. At age 12, he began playing classical guitar and electric came shortly thereafter. Strongly influenced by not only the playing but the songwriting of the artists he was raised on – from Bob Dylan and The Doors to The Beatles and Led Zeppelin to Hootie & The Blowfish and Alanis Morisette – Mulholland began using the guitar to channel his own songwriting voice.

At the age of 14, with a solid foundation of guitar chops and a small catalogue of original material and beloved classic rock covers, Luke was introduced to Canadian guitar icon Jeff Healey. Duly impressed with Luke’s ability, Healey repeatedly had Luke sit in with him on jams at his local Toronto nightclub “Healey’s” and, at the age of 16, flung the doors wide open to the young artist, allowing him to open for most of the bands that played the club. From 2004 to 2007, Luke, backed by his first band, “Mulholland Drive,” opened for countless classic rock icons at Healey’s nightclub including but not limited to: Mountain, April Wine, Pat Travers, Trooper, Goddo and Chilliwack. The peak at this point in Mulholland’s musical career came in 2006 when, after winning a local radio contest for best original song on Toronto’s classic rock station Q107, Luke and Mulholland Drive opened for Bon Jovi at the Air Canada Centre in front of 18,000 people.

In 2007, Luke got accepted into Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA and moved down to the United States. It was here that Mulholland honed his songwriting skills as a member of Berklee’s songwriting department while adding complexity and depth to his already proficient guitar playing through Berklee’s heavily jazz-oriented program. The Berklee years also saw Luke put Mulholland Drive to rest and form his second band, “The Luke Mulholland Band.” While working away on obtaining a degree from Berklee, The Luke Mulholland Band toured the entire East Coast and Midwest, both as headliners and as openers for acts including but not limited to: Carlos Santana, Dickey Betts of The Allman Brothers Band, Blues Traveler, Blue Oyster Cult & The Marshall Tucker Band. The group, fronted by Mulholland, was also nominated for the Boston Music Award’s “Outstanding Blues Artist” award in 2009. In 2011, Mulholland graduated from Berklee and, after touring for one more year around New England, decided to relocate to Los Angeles in 2012, where he continued to do more of the same with The Luke Mulholland Band.

In 2014, with long-time Berklee friend and ex-bassist for The Luke Mulholland Band, Seth Glennie-Smith, Mulholland co-wrote and landed two original songs in Sony’s major motion picture Heaven is for Real, which were featured in the background of two diner scenes and are a crowning achievement of Mulholland’s songwriting. He has also played guitar, bass, mandolin and ukulele on a number of recording sessions for Matgri Music, for which he continues to work and which regularly produces and airs television commercials in Turkey for major, international brands ranging from Dove to Lego. In the latter half of 2014, Luke was connected with Los Angeles based producer Peter Stengaard and together, Mulholland and Stengaard wrote and recorded an album that combined Mulholland’s guitar-based rock with the standards of contemporary POP/rock music, resulting in 10, original songs with the goal of being more commercially accessible than anything Mulholland had ever released. With the album finding some success at radio in 2015 & 2016 in the UK and Canada, 2017 found Mulholland back home in Toronto with a focus on being a well-rounded, freelance musician.

In 2020, Mulholland, inspired by his previous successes, embarked on achieving a master’s degree in TV & Film Composition from Berklee’s Online education program with a completion date of 2023. Once again, the burden of schoolwork has not stopped him from continuing his active career in the industry. In 2021, he was commissioned to score Indie short film “Facing Homeland,” and began scoring feature film “Impasse” in late 2022. Audio clips and scored scenes will be made available upon official release of any project on the TV & Film page of this site. Currently, Mulholland finds himself back in Boston doing everything from scoring films to teaching guitar lessons to composing original material to recording guitar for others and everything in between.