Loni Rose might hail from Seattle but this busy songwriter is generating global attention. Her pop country songs have found their way into movies like American Pie, Lovewrecked, Life Without Dick, The 10th Kingdom, and A Perfect Romance. Her songs have also been featured in television shows like America’s Next Top Model, Bad Girls Club, Road Rules, Meet My Folks, Roswell, Providence, and The Hills. Loni's first big break was in 1999 when her song, I Never Thought You Would Come, was featured in the main love scene of the hit comedy, American Pie. Summer of 1999, Loni won the local Lilith Fair Contest in her hometown of Seattle, earning a coveted slot performing at Lilith Fair Music Festival alongside female songwriters Sarah MacLauchlan and Sheryl Crow. In 2003 Loni Rose won Seattle's Kiss 106.1FM's, Battle of the Girlbands, which resulted in Loni opening for Vertical Horizon, Nelly Furtado, and Smashmouth at The Kiss 106.1FM Summer Music Festival at Cheney Stadium. Loni has performed along side many notable songwriters in the music industry including Shawn Mullins, Brandi Carlile, Emerson Hart, Shawn Colvin, Blues Traveler, Everclear, and Chris Isaac. She is currently writing her next album while promoting her newest record, The Shine Sessions. Shine Sessions was released summer of 2008 and was produced by Dwight A. Baker in Austin Texas at Matchbox Studios. The album features Davey French and Sammy Hudson of the rock band Everclear and Jason Halbert from the Kelly Clarkson band. The video for one of the songs on The Shine Sessions, Wrong Way Back, was recently featured, summer of 2008, on an episode of Great American Country's "The Next GAC Star." Famed producer Desmond Child critiqued Loni's video and song saying, "Great song, great voice, great production. Everything about it was top notch. You're real, You're sexy, I buy it 100%!" November 2008 garnered Loni and Shine Sessions an invitation to join the elite, “Editors Picks†at CD Baby! She’s turning heads around the country! Keep an eye out for this special singer songwriter as her star continues to rise.
