About Häana Thiem
Los Angeles-based Häana is a one-woman orchestra, merging music + tech + art with nordic/icelandic influences set to a broken beat. She has been featured in Vogue, and special appearances include performing for Ferrari’s Portofino car reveal in Dallas, Apple Park closing out for The Killers, Intel at CES 2018 as a feature live electronic artist at Intel's booth, Michael Jordan’s wedding alongside Robin Thicke, opening for The Rolling Stones with Kanye West, and for Obama’s Inaugural Ball. Her original music utilizes cutting-edge electronic sounds, and she counts Massive Attack, Björk, and Trentemøller as influences in crafting her production. The resulting sonic palette takes listeners on a journey whose destination is a crossroads between classical and contemporary, organic & man-made, familiar and mysterious. Equally versed in live performance as well as music production, Häana has performed at numerous international music festivals (Coachella, OZORA, Boom, Tech Open Air, Shambhala, Envision), as well as performed as a live electronic sound artist for brands Intel, Ferrari, Apple, and Nike and a guest resident artist at Berklee in Valencia, Spain. Häana is a film score composer and has scored a 90-min feature documentary This Cold Life (produced by Time, INC), music for Heavy Water (produced by Red Bull), and the full score for Art on Fire (produced by Gerald Fox).
Press ::
“Sonic stardust.” (Vogue) "Stunning shoe-gaze vocals." (The Soundtrack) “Evocative and timeless.” (Flaunt) "Rather breathtaking." (Clash) “Offering a sound that oozes originality.” (Plastic Magazine) “Ethereal otherworldly vocals and string treatments.” (Data Transmission) “Juxtaposition of ethereal beauty and dark Valkyrie power.” (SWIT)
Current Working Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA (Available to tour full time.)
Work experience
- Intel
- 2018-2021
- Performance Artist/Creator
- Apple
- 2019
- Performance Artist
- Ferrari
- 2018
- Performance Artist
Häana's Skills
Art- Content Creator
- Graphic Design
BusinessEngineeringLiveVenue Type Experience- Club
- Festival
- Stadium
- Theatre/PAC
Musician- Artist
- Instrumentalist
- Performer
- Singer
- Studio Musician
- Touring Musician
ProducingSongwriting- Co-Writer
- Lyricist
- Songwriter
- Top Line
Häana's Genres
- Electronic
- Experimental
- Minimalism
Häana's Experience
Los Angeles-based Häana is a one-woman orchestra, combining music + tech + art with nordic/icelandic influences set to a broken beat. Her original productions are like a dynamic film score, featuring electronica influences, synthetic sonority, and vocal textures. Equally versed in live performance as well as music production, Häana has performed at numerous international music festivals (Coachella, OZORA, Boom, Tech Open Air, Shambhala, Envision), as well as performed as a live electronic sound artist for brands Intel, Ferrari, Apple, and Nike and a guest resident artist at Berklee in Valencia, Spain.
Häana inspires deep emotions in her listeners, and also performs deep cinematic orchestral intentional moving music for wellness and yoga retreats, including facilitating full-spectrum meditation experiences with her chill live PA project Deepsønøs. At one such event, Vogue referred to her music as “sonic stardust.”
With time spent this summer in the Joshua Tree desert fueled by open skies, stars, nature, and waxing and waning of the moon, Häana is composing music for a new album, with a heavy emphasis on geology and nature for this body of work.