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While it is true that everyone has a story, Hayley Sales' experiences are so numerous and compelling that they almost sound fictional. The Vancouver Island-based singer's history includes being born in the Washington D.C. projects, interviewing the Dalai Lama, traveling the world, accompanying former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic to the Seattle WTO protests, and self-penning and producing her major label debut album Sunseed. Sounds like a full life? Indeed, it is. Even more incredibly, Hayley Sales has just turned 20.

Her major label debut, Sunseed, is entirely her vision, recorded primarily in her family's Glass Wing Studios. Sales wrote the songs, chose the musicians, contributes acoustic guitar, piano and vocals and is the record's sole producer. As a result, Sunseed is no happy accident. In fact, according to Hayley, it was a lifetime in the making. "I was born in a Washington, D.C. ghetto," she explains, "in a Victorian hippie house my mom had lived in since she was a baby. My father had a basement recording studio where everyone from Miles Davis to rap artists were coming in. Those were the first few years of my life.I was raised with that music, with the beats and the melodies that vibrated the house - they were the soundtrack I danced and sang to."

As life experiences tend to do, they all contribute to Sunseed. The singer/songwriter is not only a composite of her diverse journeys, she is a longtime music fan, and her style is deeply inspired by the performers that she has loved since she was a child. "l remember first hearing Judy Garland when I was six. Something in me loved it right away.I trained myself to sing listening to her! As a kid, I listened to Judy Garland, '40's jazz, reggae and 60's music, until middle school, when I realized 'oh, there's modern music, too!' I've fallen in love deeply with lots of musical styles, and now they are all mixed in together into my own." You can hear the multi-generational influences merging together throughout Sunseed, ranging from reggae to jazz to rock. "I respect Dave Matthews, Ben Harper and Jack Johnson so much for what they are doing," Sales enthuses, "for making music that is getting airplay while at the same time bringing the heart of music back into the music industry. That is what I hope to do."

The music that Hayley is creating clearly resonates with a wide variety of audiences, whether via winning "Female Vocalist of the Year" at the Vancouver Island Music Awards or gaining standing ovations at Seattle's Northwest Folk Life festival. Sales' performances are inspiring and infectious; her mission to take audiences on a journey that moves from reggae dance party one minute to a meditative, thoughtful state the next. "Music is an exchange of energies, and I love the exchange. It makes me feel good and inspires me to write music that I hope makes other people feel good.".

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