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Halie Loren

Halie Loren is an international, award-winning jazz/pop singer/songwriter.  She brings a fresh and original perspective to time-honored musical paths, channeling her innate understanding of connectedness across musical boundaries to forge bonds with diverse audiences in North America, Asia, and Europe.  She sings in multiple languages and tours the world.  Signed with Justin Time Records- North America/Europe and JVC/Victor-Japan/Asia, she’s released ten albums to-date, garnering national and international awards as well as significant critical and chart success along the way, with her albums consistently charting at #1 in Billboard/Japan Jazz Charts, iTunes (Canada and Japan) and Amazon Music. 

 

Her debut jazz CD, 2008's “They Oughta Write a Song,” won the International Independent Music award for best vocal jazz album of the year, and she was quickly signed in Asia by JVC/Victor Entertainment.  Halie has since gone on to win many awards as both a singer and a songwriter.  She is signed in North America and Europe with Canadian-based Justin Time Records. Loren’s original song “Thirsty” won the Independent Music Awards’ best jazz song of the year in 2011.  Her 2012 release, “Heart First,” was honored by Japan’s Jazz Critique Magazine as the best vocal jazz album of year, and reached No. 1 on the iTunes Canada jazz albums chart. In 2013, “Simply Love” debuted at No. 1 on Billboard Jazz / Japan and entered iTunes Canada as #1 jazz album.  2014’s release, “The Best Collection” also charted as Billboard Japan’s #1 Jazz Album, as did her 2015 release, “Butterfly Blue”. Her newest release, ‘From the Wild Sky”, a recording of her  original songs,  weaves Halie Loren’s faithful fans into her evolving tapestry, while crossing musical boundaries to forge bonds with diverse audiences worldwide as she has throughout her illustrious career.   Her video for “Noah”, the 2nd single from her 2018  “From the Wild Sky” album, won an Emmy in 2019 for Best Music Video as presented by The National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) Southeast Chapter.  In September, 2022, she released a live CD recorded at The Cotton Club in Tokyo which is garnering great reviews!   She is currently in process of recording a new jazz album in Montreal, which will be released in summer of 2023. 

 

Along with recording success, Loren’s live performances have expanded to include performances with the Jazz Orchestra of Sicily,  the Glacier Symphony of Montana, the Monroe Symphony in Louisiana,  the prestigious International Britt Fest Orchestra and the Eugene Symphony, Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra and Newport Symphony Orchestra in Oregon,.

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Album Review

Halie Loren: Butterfly Blue

Read "Butterfly Blue" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


All About Jazz collegue R.J. Deluke published a lengthy piece on Alaska-now-Oregon native vocalist Halie Loren. In that piece, DeLuke concludes: “Loren is also in a place vocally where her sound has moved away from influence and is her own. Emulating her favorites, and learning from that in years, are behind. Her phrasing and her presentation are seasoned. They move to unexpected places. It is Halie Loren's voice." And in that, lies what is ...

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Halie Loren: Butterfly Soaring

Read "Halie Loren: Butterfly Soaring" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


Its hard to categorize Halie Loren--for those who feel the need to do so--a singer/songwriter who started performing at age 10 in her native state of Alaska and now, from her home in Oregon, tours jazz clubs and jazz events on a regular basis in different parts of the world and regales audiences with her light, supple and sensual voice. She's unconcerned with categorization. Loren enjoys singing one of the great standards created before her time, that she ...

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Halie Loren at the Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society

Read "Halie Loren at the Bach Dynamite & Dancing Society" reviewed by Bill Leikam


Halie Loren Quartet Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society aka Douglas Beach House Half Moon Bay, CaliforniaJune 22, 2014 Topping off the late afternoon at the Bach, the Halie Loren Quartet took the stage, ready to give the audience the gift of song. The quartet was composed of Brian West on drums, Mark Schneider on bass, Matthew Treder on piano and Halie Loren vocals. They have been on the rise in the public eye, expanding their ...

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Halie Loren: Simply Love

Read "Simply Love" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Vocalist Halie Loren has never avoided love songs. Her spectacularly engaging Heart First (Justin Time, 2012) is actually full of them, but this program one-ups that album in the love department. Loren mixes and matches popular songs from a variety of sources and eras, throws in a few originals for good measure, and lets her warm and seductive voice work its magic on all of them during the easy-to-enjoy Simply Love Loren has always been repertoire savvy, ...

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Halie Loren: Stages

Read "Stages" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The studio is a safe place for musicians looking to birth an album in a controlled environment, but the stage is the real proving ground for performers. These people make their mark when lights are low, nerves are tested and safety nets are removed. This is where the real deal musicians get separated from the great pretenders and vocalist Halie Loren is as real as they come. Loren, who may be the best-kept vocal secret in the ...

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Halie Loren: Heart First

Read "Heart First" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Though vocalist Halie Loren has made a name for herself by bringing her warm and inviting alto to bear on a mixture of pop and jazz classics, she has received far too little attention in the United States. Much of the praise heaped upon her comes from Japan, where her fan base is strong and plentiful, but this Alaska-born, Eugene-based beauty may finally be able to make major inroads in the U.S. market with Heart First.This fourteen-track program ...

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Halie Loren: They Oughta Write a Song

Read "They Oughta Write a Song" reviewed by Some One


They Oughta Write a Song sees the 24-year-old Halie Loren getting back to her roots as a jazz singer. The album consists of 13 tracks, including not only jazz standards, but three originals and a half-handful of “jazzified" classic covers. Those new to jazz would be hard-pressed to tell one from the other, so deftly do Loren and her backing band--pianist Matt Treder, bassist Mark Schneider, percussionist Brian West and trumpeter Tim McLaughlin on trumpet--dive in and make themselves home ...

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Casting her musical net far and wide

Casting her musical net far and wide

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes

Singer Halie Loren covered the jazz and popular music waterfront—-on the waterfront—-in a Sunday, May 15, matinee concert at Selby Gardens' Historic Spanish Pojnt campus in Osprey FL. She took the afternoon's music in some surprising directions, putting all sorts of music in a jazz context, delivered with a clear voice and deep understanding of the lyrics. She has always looked beyond the stylistic boundaries of jazz and standards for interesting material, and found ways to put her own stamp ...

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Jazz/Pop Artist Halie Loren Releases "In Time (Hope for Healing)" as Single Download to Benefit Japan Relief Fund

Jazz/Pop Artist Halie Loren Releases "In Time (Hope for Healing)" as Single Download to Benefit Japan Relief Fund

Source: Halie Loren

In many countries, the name Halie Loren is not well known. However, in Japan, the talented Jazz/Pop singer's name is as well known and her CDs and concert tickets sell as well as Norah Jones and other popular singers in similar genres. The events in Japan over the last few weeks have affected everyone around the world, including Loren. She has turned energies and her talent and popularity in Japan to raise money with an original song called In Time ...

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Halie Loren Packs The House For Eight Concerts At The Cotton Club And Blue Note In Japan

Halie Loren Packs The House For Eight Concerts At The Cotton Club And Blue Note In Japan

Source: Kl Ma

Halie Loren, international award-winning jazz/pop singer-songwriter, has already had quite a year with more than nine months still left to go. With 2011 touring under way, she has just returned from a week's worth of packed-house shows in Japan, where she performed at the world-renowned Blue Note (Nagoya) and Cotton Club (Tokyo) jazz clubs. Loren's song interpretations drew enthusiastic responses from the many fans who attended one or more of her eight performances as she sang originals and standards in ...

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Music Industry

Award Winning Artist Halie Loren Signs Distribution/License Deal with JVC/Victor Entertainment for the Japanese Market

Award Winning Artist Halie Loren Signs Distribution/License Deal with JVC/Victor Entertainment for the Japanese Market

Source: Michael Ricci

Award-winning jazz singer/songwriter Halie Loren recently signed a licensing and distribution deal with JVC/Victor Entertainment. The agreement will increase her music's exposure in Japan and the surrounding Asian markets, starting with the release of a deluxe edition of “They Oughta Write A Song" on May 19th.

“Halie is truly a gifted singer and songwriter," JVC/Victor Entertainment's A&R Jazz Manager Sumio Jono said, “and we at JVC/Victor look forward to introducing her in Japan. Her previous award-winning album 'They Oughta Write ...

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Award / Grant

Jazz Singer/Songwriter Halie Loren Wins Just Plain Folks 2009 “Best Vocal Jazz Album” Award

Jazz Singer/Songwriter Halie Loren Wins Just Plain Folks 2009 “Best Vocal Jazz Album” Award

Source: Michael Ricci

Eugene, Oregon-October 7, 2009- Halie Loren has made her mark in Indie music over the years with several highly acclaimed releases. Most recently the jazz singer and songwriter was awarded for her excellence in both vocals and recording at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards 2009.

Halie walked away with the coveted Best Vocal Jazz Album for the superb 2008 release, They Oughta Write a Song. A collection of standards, jazzified classics, and three of her ...

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Halie Loren Revels in Her Jazzier Side and Releases They Oughta Write a Song CD

Halie Loren Revels in Her Jazzier Side and Releases They Oughta Write a Song CD

Source: All About Jazz

Halie Loren grew up on an island in Southeast Alaska and was outside of much what popular culture offered during her formative years. That did not stop the young music lover from soaking in all the vibes from legendary performers such as Etta James, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and Patsy Cline. At age 13, she then plugged into the sounds of Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, The Cranberries, Annie Lennox and many others, which began her journey to finding her own ...

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Vocalist Halie Loren Releases "They Oughta Write a Song"

Vocalist Halie Loren Releases "They Oughta Write a Song"

Source: All About Jazz

Jazz could be described as being the voice of “old souls" those who have already experienced life to its fullest and lived to sing about it. If that's the case, then Halie Loren, though young in years, must have already experienced many lives. From the first notes of the title song on her new jazz album, They Oughta Write a Song, Loren's voice leads the listener with lush, jazzy warmth to places both intimately alluring yet playfully enticing as she ...

The singer-songwriter has a sixth sense around lyrics, their compilations, complications, and hidden gems, catchy tunes, and what makes for arresting, unforced melody, with harmonious arrangements that stray just far enough from the status quo to still be interesting.  She’s a good songwriter, maybe one of the best, maybe someone who could headline Coachella and accept the next Oscar for the next “Star Is Born.” That good....Her original songs sounded like they were already popular, timeless covers, the ones you want to hear.  (Carol Banks Webb – FestivalPeaks.com - Live Performance Review, Jazz Alley, Seattle)

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Live At Cotton Club

Justin Time Records
2022

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From the Wild Sky

Justin Time Records
2018

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Butterfly Blue

Justin Time Records
2015

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Simply Love

Justin Time Records
2013

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Heart First

Justin Time Records
2012

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Stages

Justin Time Records
2012

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