Hayley Sales - Biography

Sales is a musician and actress best known for her award winning albums released by Universal Music, and for her acting in the TV show Cedar Cove. She was born into an incredibly artistic family; her mother being a dancer and writer, her father a musician and sound engineer (Miles Davis, The Grateful Dead and The Ramones), who operated GlassWing Studios out of the upper floor of their Washington D.C home.

Before reaching sixth grade, she had begun writing songs and performed in over one hundred plays and productions. By middle school, Sales was accepted into the private performing arts school, The Northwest Academy, where she studied both classical and jazz music, writing, acting, dance and film-making. She continued to study until graduating two years early, with honors, at sixteen. To this day, Sales continues to take online university courses.

Following graduation, her family moved again, this time to an organic blueberry farm on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Within a half of year of being on the island, Sales landed a lead role in a teen horror film, leading to a move to Los Angeles to pursue acting shortly after turning seventeen. The move ended abruptly when a bout of acid reflux caused her lose her voice.

When her voice finally returned, Sales quickly returned into the studio and recorded a full length demo which she released on her own record label Drifter Records. In 2006, Sales signed with Universal Music Canada. Her first album Sunseed, was released in 2007, with singles 'What You Want' and 'Keep Drivin' landing in the Canadian Top 40 and on the charts in Japan. Sales' mesmerizing, sultry vocals and infectious melodies caught on instantly. In 2008, she won Best Mainstream Artist at The Canadian Radio Music Awards. Her sophomore album, featuring guest appearances by G Love and Donavon Frankenreiter, When the Bird Became A Book, was released in 2012. The music video for 'Just Pretend, directed by Josh Forbes (Sarah Bareilles, The Fray) generating over five million views in three weeks following its release.

Since the international release of her last record, Sales has been hard at work touring, writing on a new collection of songs, and recently guest starring on the TV show Cedar Cove (Hallmark USA) in the role of "Shelley." She splits her time between Vancouver B.C and Los Angeles CA. Recently, Sales teamed up with Pledge Music to fan-fund the recording of her next album which she plans to record early next year. The highly anticipated album is set to be release Fall 2014.