HALIENE

HALIENE is a Grammy-nominated American songstress who emerged from the trance and melodic-dubstep crossover scene in the mid-2010s. Her 2017 collaboration with Gareth Emery and Standerwick, "Saving Light", became one of the era's defining vocal-uplifting tracks, and the 2018 follow-up "FOMO" with Standerwick consolidated her status as one of the most-collaborated-with vocalists in modern uplifting trance. Her 2022 debut album Heavenly was released on Black Hole Recordings and became one of the year's most-streamed vocal-trance records, with the deluxe Heavenly (Divine Edition) following in 2023 with three new tracks plus remixes by Last Heroes, Craig Connelly, and Markus Schulz. The album spent multiple weeks on the cover of Spotify's Bass Lounge editorial playlist and crossed five million streams within months of release. Beyond her own catalogue, HALIENE has collaborated extensively with Armin van Buuren, Illenium, Gareth Emery, Tritonal, Excision, and Seven Lions. Her credits run deeper than typical vocal-feature credits — she is named co-writer on most of the tracks she appears on, and the records bear her compositional fingerprints as clearly as her voice. Her Spotify monthly listeners sit at roughly 700K, comfortably in the upper bracket of vocal-trance artists who have built genuine solo audiences distinct from their producer collaborators. For listeners following the post-2015 vocal-uplifting tradition — the territory where trance, melodic dubstep, and emotional electronic pop overlap — HALIENE is currently the central voice. Her work has substantially shaped what modern vocal-trance sounds like, and her Black Hole catalogue serves as a working model of what a vocalist-led artist career inside the genre can be in the 2020s.