26 Facts About Ed Hale

Ed Hale was born on October 20,1974 and is an American writer, singer-songwriter-recording artist.

Ed Hale is currently signed to the Dying Van Gogh record label and the BMG subsidiary label Fieldhouse Music.

Ed Hale is a second generation American who is half English and half Italian.

Ed Hale was born in Paris, France, while his father was serving in the military.

Ed Hale started playing piano on his own at age four, allegedly inspired by seeing the film Sound of Music.

Ed Hale comes from a long line of musicians including his great uncle, the Sands Hotel bandleader, producer and arranger Antonio Morelli.

However, it has been reported that Ed Hale got his start in music after his mother spoke with psychic Micki Dahne who recommended that she buy her creative yet troubled son a guitar in order to "keep him out of trouble, out of jail, and alive long enough to see his eighteenth birthday".

Ed Hale released his first album, Eddie, at the age of 17 on the Alarming Talent record label under the moniker Eddie Darling.

In July 2010 Ed Hale released his first solo album in almost ten years Ballad On Third Avenue receiving both critical acclaim and the greatest commercial success of his musical career thus far.

Ed Hale toured both the East and West Coast of the United States in 2009 and 2010 performing at several International Pop Overthrow Festivals in various cities from Boston to Los Angeles to Vancouver in Canada.

Ed Hale returned to the recording studio in New York and Seattle, WA to record a follow-up album, this time with Ex Norwegian front-man Roger Houdaille in the producer's seat.

Ed Hale is the nephew of feminist activist, political analyst, lobbyist, and grassroots organizer Eleanor Smeal, who served as the two-term president of the National Organization for Women in the 1980s.

In 2003 Ed Hale set up an alternative media headquarters in Miami to house activists and demonstrators to protest and oppose the Free Trade of the Americas FTAA meetings that were being held in the city.

Ed Hale has founded and chairs a handful of non-profit projects, including Fair Pay for Fair Play which focuses on legislation to gain fair compensation for music artists, the website Tune In Turn On Help which funnels attention and monies to various causes and charities, and Peace With Iran, a website that attempts to act as a vehicle for journalists and alternative press coverage of Iran, and to expose more Westerners to the Iranian culture.

Ed Hale made two volunteer trips to the post-Hurricane Katrina Gulf Coast helping to rebuild homes in 2006, and in 2009 he took two more volunteer trips to a remote village outside of the city Cartagena in the country of Colombia to help build a Community and Health Center there.

Ed Hale works locally with the New York City Mission Society volunteering with underprivileged children from the Bronx and Harlem and volunteers with a local Food Bank, Covenant House, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, and is a Red Cross Disaster Relief volunteer.

Ed Hale has founded several companies in various industries, including a recording studio, The Garden of Eden health food store, and the vitamin manufacturing company Ageless Foundation Laboratories which was sold to the Naturade company in 2005.

Interested in life extension and anti-aging sciences, Ed Hale developed a nutritional formula called UltraMax-HGH, eventually becoming UltraMax-Gold, and a full line of similar products which were the basis of the Ageless Foundation company.

Ed Hale was interviewed in Health Industry related magazines and journals about anti-aging and business during this time when active in the industry.

Ed Hale hosted The Now Age Radio Show for two years which featured guests in the field of health and longevity sciences such as Dr Ray Sahelian and Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw.

Ed Hale is active in real estate investment with The Ed Hale Daniel Corporation, a Florida company.

Ed Hale owns a clothing line which specializes in rock 'n' roll T-shirts.

Ed Hale refers to his various forays into business as a hobby and another outlet to express his creativity.

In 2010 Ed Hale married Nahal Mishel-Ghashghai who he has two daughters with.

Ed Hale converted to Islam and took the Muslim name of Haafez in order to marry Mishel-Ghashghai, in a Persian ceremony.

Ed Hale reciprocated by converting to Christianity in order to marry Hale in a Christian ceremony.