Music Video: HNK Covers Hayes’ “Wanted”

Teen musical duo Hollie Hassell and Keenan Bailey — who go by the name HNK [Hollie 'n' Keenan] — have uploaded a new video of their cover version of country artist Hunter Hayes’ hit “Wanted.”

Grammy-nominated “Wanted” was released in March 2012 as the second single from Hunter Hayes’ self-titled début studio album.

Hunter Hayes was also nominated for Best New Artist and Best Country Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards.

HNK’s “Wanted” music video

Berkeley Institute students HNK have collaborated on a number of music productions in recent months including a cover of “Down”, the 2009 R&B-electropop song by British artist Jay Sean.

That song went on to sell four million copies in the United States and six million copies worldwide. Featuring rapper and Jay Sean label mate Lil Wayne, “Down” is the best-selling single by a British/European male artist in North America since Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind.”

The talented teenagers who comprise HNK began working together earlier this year.

“Hollie wanted to sing,” Keenan Bailey told Bernews “Being that I’m a singer/songwriter/producer/ recording engineer, I made her wish come true.”

HNK’s cover version of “Down”

Last year Keenan Bailey — then 17 — hit the local headlines when he wrote and released a tribute song dedicated to murder victim Joshua Robinson.

The secondary school student — who also performs under the stage name Keenan Thraxx Exodia — posted the song on YouTube on the same day of the murder at Jason’s Barbershop on North Shore in Pembroke.

Earlier this year he started posting “my soft. soothing style beats” to SoundCloud.

Hollie Hassell has also uploaded some of her songs to that on-line music site.

“HNK are putting together a mixtape set to be released in the spring.” Keenan Bailey told Bernews.

Keenan Bailey tribute song

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