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LUÁN PARLE

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Luán (pronounced Lu-on) Parle was born in Wicklow, Ireland 

She comes from a musical family. Her father is a musician as are her brothers. Her brother John is the drummer with Irish band Leopold who toured with James brown just before his death and have recently toured with Thin Lizzy. Luán's confidence as a singer came from the training her father gave to the children who sang at Sunday Mass at her local church. With this musical background, Luán grew up with an early passion for The Judds, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood as well as a whole host of more contemporary artists including Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones.With an already distinctive name (from a French ancestor who was shipwrecked off the Wexford coast) Luán began to develop her own vocal style early on and, a few months before her seventh birthday, won the first of a string of talent contests. She started playing the guitar at the same time and from then on there was no stopping her. Within three years, at age ten, she was fronting her own band 

 Her natural dauntless enthusiasm and unnerving confidence brought her gigs at hotels and bars. Before long, Luán had become a welcome fixture on the local music scene and, in spite of her tender years, was already making a name for herself as a professional singer. She took some of numerous opportunities to perform on radio and television including national appearances at the age of eleven on top rated national Irish TV shows "The Late Late Show", "Kenny Live" and "School Around The Corner". Luán’s first recording came in the form of a cassette at age eleven which featured four tracks including two written by the youngster titled “I Look up to the Sky” and “Little Children” - Following on from which Luán released her first album at age twelve appropriately titled “First Impressions”. Throughout her teens there were two Luán’s. One led a covers band… The other wrote and performed a growing catalogue of self written material. Luán finished her education and whilst still a teenager released some EP’s including “When I See You Smile”. There was some turmoil in the recording industry at that time with mergers and buyouts, which led to Luán losing time on following up with a debut “adult” album. Luán continued writing and over the next couple of years gained invaluable experience when asked to play as special guest to Elton John and to tour with the emerging James Blunt 

She also worked in the US and UK & Ireland with legendary producers, musicians and song writers including: 

 Chris Kimsey  

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Chris Kimsey is a record producer, musician & songwriter probably most famous for having co-produced The Rolling Stones' "Undercover" and "Steel Wheels" albums. He was also engineer on their 1971 album "Sticky Fingers" as well as 1978's "Some Girls" and 1980's "Emotional Rescue" and assisted Mick Jagger and Keith Richards closely in preparing 1981's "Tattoo You". Other artists he has worked with include: Peter Frampton, Marillion, The Cult, Peter Tosh, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Johnny Hallyday, Diesel Park West, JoBoxers, Killing Joke, New Model Army, Ash, The Chieftains, Soul Asylum, Duran Duran, Yes, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, INXS and Moral Code X, and is credited for mixing the performances of Elton John, Paul McCartney and Cliff Richard & The Shadows on the Knebworth double album in 1990. Recently, Chris has been the credited producer, mixer and engineer on the new album "High" by British post punk band New Model Army, which was released in June of 2007. Most recently, He has produced and engineered the debut release "The Getaway" by "Very Emergency" from Lexington Kentucky as well as the yet-to-be-named release by "Saint Jude from London"... and of course Chris has worked and continues to work with Luán

Mike Japp 

Mike Japp was born in South Wales in the UK. However, he moved to California for a long time. Japp was a member of Marmalade in the 70's and also appeared on Procol Harum member Mathew Fisher's solo releases. Marmalade were hugely succesful in the 60's & 70's with many hit singles in the UK & US. Following his departure from Marmalade Mike turned to songwrtiting including penning tracks for KISS, Gene Simmons (solo) and Bryan Adams. Mike is a stunning natural songsmith and a truly brilliant guitarist. In recent years his distinctive voice has also come to the fore on solo releases, particularily on the wonderful album "Dreamer".... When Luán and her management uploaded the songs currently on this page (2 years ago) it was decided to include some historical instrumental tracks produced / arranged by Luán and Chris Kimsey in London. These beautiful tracks are "Alright" (Japp), "Goodbye" (Japp) & "When I Didn't See At All" (Japp / Gries)... The songs are a showcase of Luán’s vocal and song interpretation ability. Mike and Luán continue to work together, collaborating on new material.

Hal Lindes 

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Hal Lindes was a member of Dire Straits for five years, working with Mark Knopfler on various groundbreaking albums including "Love Over Gold" and "Alchemy". Hal has since moved onto film composing, utilizing his distinctive guitar work as a powerful voice, and painting rich and evocative backdrops onto the screen images. Hal's scores have won various awards in Great Britain, including a Royal Television Society Award and a TRIC Award. The Press said about the TV sound track title for 'Between the Lines': 'The series gives the apocalyptic impression that crime is ruling supreme and that there is not much hope for society as a whole; an aspect which is appropriately underlined by the outstanding musical achievements of Hal Lindes"

Stephen Lironi  

Stephen Lironi was a founder member of precocious pop band Altered Images, Steve is a highly talented Scottish producer / writer and multi-instrumentalist, now based in London. In a 10 year production career he has produced hits for Black Grape, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Happy Mondays, Hanson, Bon Jovi, Babybird and Space amongst others. Steve's work over the past couple of years includes producing the debut album for Mute's Pink Grease, Australian's Amiel (Festival Mushroom Records),  singer songwriter James Murray, rockers Bricolage, Sandra Nasiac for SonyBMG Germany as well as spending time in the USA writing with a variety of top writers. And of course Steve produced Luán's album "Free" 

Bill Bottrell  

Bill Bottrell is a record producer and songwriter based in Northern California. His work has produced 11 Grammy nominations, and his productions have sold more than 36 million records. He may be the only producer to have launched the careers of two Best New Artist Grammy-winners. In the '80s he worked with huge media stars like Michael Jackson and Madonna. He retreated to Pasadena near his home and built a radical new recording studio which allowed him the freedom to experiment with new economics and production methods. He was instrumental in popularizing the rootsier, simpler sounds in the '90s. He started a musical think tank with his friend David Baerwald and it came to be called the Tuesday Night Music Club. This loose collective produced huge hits and even bigger controversy. Attacks from the industry and the media led to the eventual breakup of the collective. Bottrell, retreating still further from the world's media capital, spent two years in seclusion in Albion, California, writing and playing local clubs. He stepped back into the mainstream in 1998, when he met Shelby Lynne. Together, they wrote and recorded the critically acclaimed album for Island Def Jam entitled "I Am Shelby Lynne." Robert Hilburn of the LA Times has called it the Album of the Year. Shelby Lynne received a Grammy for Best New Artist and Bill was nominated for a Grammy for Producer of the Year in 2000.

Billy Steinberg  

Billy (William) Steinberg is an American songwriter. He has achieved most of his success as part of a song writing team, most notably with Tom Kelly. He has also co-written several hit songs with Rick Nowels. In his mid-20's formed the group Billy Thermal which was eventually signed to Richard Perry's Planet Records label. Their breakthrough occurred in 1980 when Linda Ronstadt heard their album and decided to record their song "How Do I Make You?" for her 1980 Mad Love album. The album hit the top three of the charts and went platinum. Ronstadt's version of their song reached the American top ten. In 1981, Steinberg wrote "Precious Time", the title track for Pat Benatar's Precious Time album; he also penned "I'm Gonna Follow You" that appeared on her second album Crimes of Passion the previous year. Further success followed with the song "Like a Virgin," when it was played for Warner Bros. executives who thought that "Like a Virgin" would be perfect for Madonna. Her version of the song spent six weeks at number one in the United States in 1985, and became a worldwide hit. The success of the partnership continued with more number one singles "True Colors" (recorded by Cyndi Lauper), "So Emotional" (by Whitney Houston), "Eternal Flame" (by The Bangles) and "Alone" (by Heart). Some of their other hits include "In Your Room" (The Bangles), "I Drove All Night" (recorded by Cyndi Lauper, Roy Orbison and Celine Dion), "I Touch Myself" (the Divinyls), "Sex as a Weapon" (by Pat Benatar), and "Look Me in the Heart" (by Tina Turner). They also wrote several songs with Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, including the top-ten single "I'll Stand By You". In the mid 1990s Steinberg began writing with Rick Nowels, who had previously established himself as a songwriter for such artists as Stevie Nicks and Belinda Carlisle. Their greatest success of the period was the Céline Dion recording of "Falling Into You" for which they won Grammy Awards. Steinberg continues to write songs. Steinberg and Alexander's recent work includes JoJo's 2006 single "Too Little Too Late" and Katharine McPhee's "Over It" in 2007

The experience she was gaining working with the cream of producers and session musicians was invaluable in taking Luán to a level where she could and often did co-produce her work

At this stage Luán was already well on the way to becoming a very astute businesswoman and decided to set-up her own company to control the resources she had to work with. The good early advice from her parents paid off as she could now manage her own business having the necessary accounting, budgeting, organisational and Information Technology skills 

Luán then hooked up with UK producer Stephen Lironi – Bon Jovi, Altered Images, Lloyd Cole etc. to create the album “Free”

After some delay “Free” was finally released in early 2007 to great critical acclaim

This was swiftly followed by the 2007 Meteor Award for “Best Irish Female Artist” and the album was short listed to the final three (with Snow Patrol & Duke Special) at Northern Irelands “Big Buzz” Entertainment Industry Awards. Luán won an award at the lavish Belfast ceremony for “Most Stylish Female Entertainer”

Luán and her management decided to set out on a national tour. What started as 10 dates in 2007 finished as 80 dates into 2008. A big intentional part of the tour was performances in Arts Theatres nationwide where no age restrictions applied. This tied in with another passion of Luán’s. To coincide with these concerts she provided secondary school song writing workshops and invariably had students guest for her at the shows. The tour was a huge success

In amongst the general tour dates Luán guested for INXS, toured with Nanci Griffith, Played the Midlands Music Festival, Headlined the Oxjam charity gigs in Dublin and Belfast and headlined the Marie Keating Foundation fundraiser in the Hard Rock Café, all to great acclaim. Nanci and her band stood side stage for her set each night on the tour and they could not believe she was not a huge name in America. INXS said they were “blown away” by her performance

The tour, which was a major but sucessful undertaking for a solo Irish artist, gave another indication of Luán’s ability to manage other than the creative side of her career. Yet another testament to the brains behind the beauty! 

All through the year Luán’s myspace started to grow at a phenomenal rate. Luán is now the most played Irish Female artist on Myspace and is the 4th most played artist overall. Plays now exceed 2.5 million and fans added exceed 20,,000

In November 2007 Luán was honoured with the Tatler Award for “Music woman of the Year”. It was a great end to a great year for the young Wicklow woman and a fitting tribute for all the hard work.

In 2008 Luán had a top 10 hit single with "Ghost" which remained in the Irish singles chart for over 3 months. This succcess saw the album "Free" reenter the charts and also remain there for over 3 months. 

Luán also picked up two new awards: The "Big Buzz" entertainment industry "Best Female Performer" and the "Balcony TV" "Best Female Video"

For  2009 Luan is concentraing on her new album with a view to global release.

The Luán Parle story continues apace!

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