Halie Loren

Who is Halie Loren?

Halie Loren is an American singer and songwriter. Her 2008 CD They Oughta Write a Song won the 2009 Just Plain Folks award for Best Vocal Jazz Album and subsequently received international distribution and acclaim, becoming the No. 2-selling jazz album in Japan for 2010. Her most recent album, Heart First, won Jazz Critique Magazine's Golden prize in the vocal album section of Jazz Audio Disc Awards 2011, reached No. 1 on the iTunes Canada jazz albums chart, and rose to No. 2 in jazz CDs at Amazon Canada. Her latest album, Simply Love, was released in Japan on June 19, 2013, and that week entered Billboard Japan's Top Jazz Albums chart at No. 2. It will be released in North America on September 10, 2013.