Website www.halieloren.com Name Halie Loren | Role Singer · halieloren.com | |
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Occupation Vocalist, songwriter, producer Albums Butterfly Blue, They Oughta Write a Song... Nominations Independent Music Award for Best Song - Acoustic Profiles | ||
Halie loren perhaps perhaps perhaps
Halie Loren (born October 23, 1984) is an American jazz singer and songwriter from Alaska.
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- Halie loren perhaps perhaps perhaps
- Halie loren sway live at upstairs
- Music career
- Japan
- Awards and honors
- References
Halie loren sway live at upstairs
Music career
Loren was born in the small town of Sitka, Alaska, where she made her performing debut at the age of ten at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. When she was thirteen, she moved with her family to Oregon. She grew up listening to her mother's record collection, developing a fondness for Etta James, Patsy Cline, Sarah McLachlan, Joni Mitchell, and the Great American Songbook. After high school, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, for a year to learn songwriting. When she returned home, she went to college and studied art and graphic design. To help pay for school, she continued singing professionally, which she had been doing since the age of fourteen. She got a degree in visual arts and has designed artwork for her albums. She released her first album, First Circle, in 2006.
Two years later she joined the Sugar Beets, a local band in Eugene, Oregon. In 2012 she performed with the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra and her touring band (Matt Treder, Mark Schneider, Brian West, and William Seiji Marsh).
Japan
Loren has been popular in Japan. Her albums Simply Love (Justin Time, 2013) and Butterfly Blue (Justin Time, 2015) reached number one on the Billboard Japan jazz chart. She has toured often in Japan, with visits to the Cotton Club in Tokyo. Jazz Critique magazine chose Heart First as the best vocal jazz album of 2011.
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