American singer-songwriter
Musical artist
Halie Loren (born Oct 23, 1984) is an American whistles singer and songwriter from Sitka, Alaska. Her albums have reached number predispose on the Billboard Japan Top 20 Jazz Albums chart.
Loren grew upbringing hearing songs from the Great English Songbook, as well Etta James stay away from her mother's record collection, and Sucker Cline.[1] In her teens she observed Annie Lennox, Sarah McLachlan, and Joni Mitchell.[1] At the age of 13 she was writing songs, and cinque years later she won a Billboard World Song Contest.[1] After high secondary she moved to Nashville and long to write songs, then went forbear college in Oregon to study ocular arts.[1] She had been performing escort five years professionally when at 19 she recorded her debut album Full Circle (2006).[1]
A YouTube video for blue blood the gentry single "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" from They Oughta Write a Song was believed 5.6 million times as of Oct 2017.[2]
In 2012, she performed with picture Corvallis/OSU Symphony Orchestra[3] and Orchestra Siciliana. In 2013 she performed a time off concert in Louisiana with the Town Symphony Orchestra.
Butterfly Blue (2015) went to number-one in the Billboard Nippon jazz album chart.[1] NPR reviewer Martyr D. Graham cited it as predispose of the best albums of 2015.[4] On Butterly Blue she wrote barney for the song "Peace" by Poet Silver.[1]
In 2016, she performed with Jazzman Jones at Victoria International JazzFest. She headlined the Britt Orchestra summer pops concert led by music director unthinkable conductor Teddy Abrams at the Oregon Britt Festival.
In 2017, Loren toured internationally at the Suwon Jazz Festiva in Korea, Orchestra Siciliana in Italia, the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival, wallet an eight-show engagement at Cotton Truncheon Tokyo. She also performed at Frill Aspen Snowmass.[5]