Coles Whalen

Coles Whalen live in Tucson


Coles Whalen is an Americana, pop and country singer-songwriter based in Denver.[1] She has toured extensively through the United States and Canada and has released five independent records. Whalen also composed and performed the soundtrack to Passport & Palette, a Public Television Series, and is the voice of the Living Spaces 2010 ad campaign seen in Super Bowl XLIV. In 2009 a writer for the St. Joseph News-Press described her music as "evolving from a stereotypical emotive folksy singer/songwriter into an artist who dabbles in crafting melodic pop mixed with touches of alt-country, rock and jazz."[2]

Appearances

Denver Pride Festival 2012 with En Vogue

HRC National Gala 2011 Phoenix Pride Festival 30th Anniversary 2010 with Joan Jett

Akon's Hitlab Showcase, Winner 2009

Taos Solar Music Festival 2008 with Paula Cole, John Butler Trio

Discography

Come Back, Come Back 2013

  1. Catch Hold
  2. Counting Down the Days
  3. Cruel Game
  4. There's Gotta Be
  5. More Than the Immediate
  6. Fairy Tale
  7. Go Back
  8. Tether
  9. Phone Lines
  10. On My Way to You

I Wrote This for You 2012

  1. Cannonball
  2. Average 20 Something
  3. Beautiful Without Me
  4. Cactus
  5. Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol
  6. So It Is
  7. These Small Things
  8. Wrecking Ball
  9. Wake Up Easy
  10. You'll Be There
  11. Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
  12. Paper Airplane
  13. Second to None

The Whistle Stop Road Record 2010

  1. Go Child
  2. Whistle Stop
  3. Butterflies
  4. Hole in My Heart
  5. Wrecking Ball
  6. So It Is
  7. Romeo and Juliet (by Mark Knopfler)
  8. Average 20 Something
  9. Call On Me
  10. Wake Up Easy
  11. Hurricane (Wicked Won Remix)

Nothing is Too Much 2008[3]

  1. Call on Me
  2. How Do You Do This to Me
  3. The Gettin' Side
  4. When You Were Here
  5. Honeyed Out

Gee Baby 2006

  1. Shine
  2. Manhattan
  3. Turn Away
  4. Ship That Sails The Sea
  5. Twice
  6. Weepin' Heart
  7. Pretty Kids
  8. Saint Tony
  9. The Hand That Gives the Rose
  10. Come Back for More
  11. Sevens
  12. Gee Baby

Coles Whalen: ep 2005

  1. Why I Cry
  2. Pick Up the Pieces
  3. Sevens
  4. Hollow Railroad
  5. Providence
  6. Old Man Reality

Songs for Sensational Kids Vol. 1: The Wiggly Scarecrow 2005[4]

Personal life

Coles Whalen was born is Philadelphia and moved to Denver at the age of one. She was accepted to the international touring ensemble of the Colorado Children's Chorale in 1990 and traveled with the group to China before she left in 1993. She attended Cherry Creek High School and graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in 2003.

References

Coles Whalen-I Wrote This For You [LP], Colorado Music Buzz 2012.[5]

Low Country Seduction Ourstage 2012.[6]

Coles Whalen: Call On Me Official Music Video[7]

Coles Whalen: Live in Tucson, Cannonball Nathan Kroeger [8]

  1. ↑ Holly Hatch, "Denver musician Coles Whalen defies genre", Out Front Colorado, February 15, 2012.
  2. ↑ Blake Hannan, "This is: Coles Whalen", St. Joseph News-Press, August 19, 2009  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) .
  3. ↑ Coffey, Kevin (18 December 2008). "On her way to a breakout: Coles Whalen returns to Omaha ahead of a couple of CD releases, including one with a major label", Omaha World-Herald, p. GO16
  4. ↑ Milvy, Erica (September 2005). "Songs for Sensational Kids Vol. 1: The Wiggly Scarecrow", Parenting 19 (8): 237
  5. ↑ Colorado Music Buzz Article.
  6. ↑ Ourstage Article.
  7. ↑ "Official Music Video"
  8. ↑ "Fan Upload"

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