Hayley Sales is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and actress. Sales’ debut album Sunseed was released on June 19, 2007; songs “Keep Drivin” and “What You Want” reached number11 on the Japan Hot 100 and number 45 on the Canadian Hot 100, respectively.

Her second album, When the Bird Became a Book, was released on June 21, 2010, and includes duets with musicians G. Love and Donavon Frankenreiter.

Hayley Sales parents: Miles Davis

Miles Davis is the father of Haley Sales. “The Grateful Dead and The Ramones operated GlassWing Studios out of the upper floor of their Washington D.C home. Hayley’s mother was a dancer and writer, and her father was a musician and sound engineer

Hayley’s family relocated to Portland, Oregon when Sales was three and within several months, Sales began playing piano and participating in local musical theatre productions. She learned to sing by studying the voices of Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone among others.

By middle school, Sales was accepted into the private performing arts school, The Northwest Academy, where she studied both classical and jazz music, writing, The Meisner Technique, dance, and film-making.

At the age of 12, she landed the role of Juliet in Concordia University’s production of Romeo and Juliet, having lied about her age. In September 2001, she was flown to Washington D.C to perform at the Pentagon for the WWII Ace Pilots Convention. By the time she graduated, two years early at sixteen with honors, Sales had been in over 100 dramatic and musical plays.

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