Corky Hale (Pianist, Harpist and Vocalist) was born in a small mid-western farm town and started piano lessons at age three. At age seven, while vacationing with her family in Florida, Hale was heard in the lobby of her hotel picking out tunes on the piano by House bandleader, Horace Heidt. Heidt had a little band jacket made for her and featured her for the next few weeks in the evening show.
   She has performed at The White House with Tony Bennett, soloed with Barbra Streisand in Central Park and at the Hollywood Bowl, and performed with Björk on her MTV Special in London. Hale has also appeared with George Michael at London’s Royal Albert Hall and Washington DC’s RFK Stadium. She has played harp for Liberace, piano for Billie Holiday and Mel Tormé, and has sung with the bands of Harry James, Ray Anthony and Jerry Gray.
   Hale’s harp, piano and vocals can be heard on her three albums “CORKY!;” “Have Yourself A Jazzy Little Christmas;” and her current CD “Corky Hale and Friends...I’m Glad There Is You.” Corky Hale’s CDs are available at www.cdbaby.com, www.amazon.com and www.itunes.com.
   Her sold-out performances at the Oak Room at the Algonquin in New York, Davenport’s in Chicago, the Cinegrill, Herb Albert’s Vibrato Grill Jazz…etc. in Los Angeles, the Plush Room in San Francisco, and Pizza On The Park in London have led Los Angeles Times’ jazz reviewer Don Heckman to observe that Hale is “more than a triple threat,” and the San Francisco Examiner’s Philip Ellwood to note her performances are “of cyclonic proportions.”
   Hale produced “Give ‘em Hell Harry,” starring Jason Alexander at the Tiffany Theatre in Los Angeles in 1992. Since 2000 Hale has produced and performed her star-studded show “Corky Hale and Friends: From Tin Pan Alley to Beverly Hills,” at the Beverly Hills Civic Center.
   In March 2003 her “Salute To Hollywood Songwriters” opened the newly restored Ferry Building at a Gala for San Francisco’s “Raising Hope” charity, and in 2002 this show opened the 25th Anniversary Season of the 1,000-seat La Mirada Theatre.
   In that same year Hale’s musical “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” broke Box Office records at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Florida. She also produced 1998’s “Lullaby Of Broadway” at the Tiffany Theatre in West Hollywood, voted one of the “10 Best Shows” of the year by the Los Angeles Times. Later a concert version of the show starring Sally Kellerman was presented at the University of Judaism. She is currently preparing a new version of the production, re-titled “I Only Have Eyes For You.”
   On November 22, 2007, Corky Hale made her debut at Carnegie Hall as a Piano Soloist with the New York Pops Orchestra, under the baton of Guest Conductor, Barry Levitt.
   In 2008 she appeared at the Metropolitan Room in New York and produced a Tribute to Sammy Cahn at the Wilshire Theatre Beverly Hills. In 2009 she appeared at Herb Alpert’s Vibrato Grill Jazz…etc. in Los Angeles, selling it out for the third time.
   In December 2008 - January 2009, she produced a Sold Out, Standing Room Only Revival of Leiber & Stoller’s Smokey Joe’s Café at El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, which received rave reviews, including a Critics Choice in the Los Angeles Times. The same production was also nominated for 10 Ovation Awards in 2009, receiving the most nominations of any single theatrical show produced in Los Angeles during that year. In 2011 Corky Hale Productions in association with McCoy Rigby Productions will produce a New National Tour of Leiber & Stoller’s Smokey Joe’s Café. In 2010, Corky Hale served as one of the financial backers of Academy Award nominated documentary film, “The Most Dangerous Man In America – Daniel Ellsberg and The Pentagon Papers.” Also in 2010 Hale will appear in concert at the Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles.
   In addition to her musical accomplishments, Hale jokingly considers herself the ultimate cook-housewife. She has been happily married for 39 years to songwriter Mike Stoller of the team Leiber & Stoller, whose show Smokey Joe’s Café broke the record as the longest running musical revue in Broadway history.