When your dad is beloved kids’ entertainer Fred Penner, you grow up knowing how to craft sing-along choruses and heartfelt hooks. Those tricks weren't lost on Canada-born Hayley Gene Penner, who moved to Los Angeles in 2010 to hone her songwriting chops. Galvanised by the city’s flash and hustle, she forged her own frank, intimate tunes while penning dance-inflected pop and stirring ballads for the likes of Lennon Stella and The Chicks.