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Halle Payne
Artist Bio
After spending three years cutting her teeth as a songwriter in Nashville, Halle found herself languishing in the aftermath of a difficult breakup, unsure of what was next. After realizing her Stanford degree enabled her to nab a “High Potential Individual” Visa to live in London (if she applied within THAT month) and hearing about the bustling London music scene, Halle leaped across the Pond with two suitcases, a backpack, and her guitar, where she would meet dozens of new collaborators, finish her debut album, and build her 6-piece band.
Her debut album, Forever From You, was entirely crowdfunded—Halle raised an impressive $15,000 via her newsletter and social media—and independently recorded between Nashville and London with a menagerie of independent producers, friends, and creative collaborators.
Influenced by iconic songwriters like Fiona Apple, Alanis Morisette, and Adrienne Lenker, Halle is a deep feeler whose poetry and songwriting are full of wit, heart, and a persistent search for silver linings. She’s gained traction on social media for her uplifting, “hope core” perspective and her writing, music, and poetry, regularly drawing in over a million monthly views across platforms.
Halle spent the last six months developing her live set at iconic venues around London, including the Bedford, the Canal Bar, the Camden Club, and the Victoria. She built a fabulous six- (and sometimes seven-) piece London band. Halle is also currently in the Top Three of the War Child Rising UK fundraising competition, which showcases the best up-and-coming talent in the United Kingdom.
Performance Reel
Watch highlights from Halle Payne's performance for the RISING UK Competition — showcasing the best in UK talent, while raising money for War Child.
Stream Halle’s Lead Singles
While you wait for the whole album to be available on Feb. 28th, get a taste of the record with lead singles, “Fifth Limb,” “Let Yourself Out,” & “Messy Hot Girl Summer”
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Forever From You, Halle’s Debut Album
Halle’s debut album, Forever From You, will be released everywhere on February 28th.
The album opens with sensitive, midnight confessions, underlined by jazzy keys and bold string arrangements, and ends with a bang – lead singles Messy Hot Girl Summer and Let Yourself Out blend modern pop & rock influences (“Good Luck Babe” meets “Good 4 U”), pushing her sound and story into an ambitious new space.
Notable co-writers and producers on the album include staples of the Nashville indie scene – Lo Noom, Bedon, Kate Cosentino, and Doc Henry – and impressive London musicians like Phoebe Axa and Millie Turner. Halle regularly collaborates with her sister, comedian and filmmaker Kendall Alex Payne, to create heartfelt, personal music videos, the most notable of which garnered over 58,000 views on Youtube.
Throughout the album, Halle showcases a finely tuned writing style and a bold determination to carve out her own lane as an artist, storyteller, and musician.
She can’t wait for you to listen. If you’re in the industry and want a sneak preview, please shoot me an email, and I’ll send it over.
7.8M Views
34K Followers
Halle is no stranger to social media virality, with 7.8 million views on Tiktok alone, and multiple 2M+ videos across platforms in the last year. Halle receives around 1 million impressions a month on Instagram. She has built a combined audience of over 34,000 followers on Instagram and Tiktok, using humor, music, poetry, and of course, her charismatic personality.
Halle is passionate about using social media to connect with fans and other multifaceted, passionate individuals. Halle shows up authentically on social media to inspire other people to become their most free, creative selves while also being careful never to paint too pretty a picture, lest it become another point of comparison for other people to feel they “don’t measure up. “
Halle has big plans but wants to do them her way: kindly, deliberately, happily, and with her audience and her own tender spirit at the center of her work.
1.3M Likes
Messy Hot Girl Summer
After receiving over 500,000 views on “Messy Hot Girl Summer” on Instagram & over 14,000 streams on Spotify, the Payne sisters (Halle Payne, along with her older sister Kendall Payne) released Messy Hot Girl Summer, the video.