She comes from a musical family. Her father is a musician as are her brothers. Her brother John is the drummer with Irish band Leopold who toured with James brown just before his death and have recently toured with Thin Lizzy. Luan's confidence as a singer came from the training her father gave to the children who sang at Sunday Mass at her local church.

With this musical background, Luan grew up with an early passion for The Judds, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood as well as a whole host of more contemporary artists including Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones.

With an already distinctive name (from a French ancestor who was shipwrecked off the Wexford coast) Luan began to develop her own vocal style early on and, a few months before her seventh birthday, won the first of a string of talent contests. She started playing the guitar at the same time and from then on there was no stopping her. Within three years, at age ten, she was fronting her own band.

Her natural dauntless enthusiasm and unnerving confidence brought her gigs at hotels and bars. Before long, Luan had become a welcome fixture on the local music scene and, in spite of her tender years, was already making a name for herself as a professional singer. She took some of numerous opportunities to perform on radio and television including national appearances at the age of eleven on top rated national Irish TV shows "The Late Late Show", "Kenny Live" and "School Around The Corner".

Luan’s first recording came in the form of a cassette at age eleven which featured four tracks including two written by the youngster titled “I Look up to the Sky” and “Little Children” - Following on from which Luan released her first album at age twelve appropriately titled “First Impressions”.

At this point Luan was presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Some Nashville scouts, attracted by the profile that the now thirteen year old Luan had been building up, offered her the opportunity to head off to the U.S. with a full recording contract.

Luan's parents had other ideas, insisting that she was too young to take such a life-changing risk and that finishing her education must come first. Her parents just wanted her to have a normal childhood and thirteen was way too young for such a move. She made a deal with her parents. If she went back and finished her education, then, if she still wanted to be a professional singer, they promised to continue to support her 100%”.

Luan's deal with her parents didn't stop her playing and performing wherever she could, and settling down to continue writing her own songs.

Throughout her teens there were two Luan’s. One led a covers band… The other wrote and performed a growing catalogue of self written material. Luan finished her education and whilst still a teenager released some EP’s including “When I See You Smile”.

There was some turmoil in the recording industry at that time with mergers and buyouts, which led to Luan losing time on following up with a debut “adult” album.

Luan continued writing and over the next couple of years gained invaluable experience when asked to play as special guest to Elton John and to tour with the emerging James Blunt.

She also worked in the US and UK with legendary producers and song writers including:

Bill Bottrell - Travelling Wilburys, Tom Petty, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Sheryl Crow, Shelby Lynne, Alisha's Attic, Elton John and many more.

Chris Kimsey – The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Marillion, The Cult, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Killing Joke, Duran Duran, Yes, INXS and many more.

Stephen Lironi - Jon Bon Jovi, Space, The Wilsons, Black Grape, Hanson and many more.

Billy Steinberg– Celine Dion, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Whitney Houston, The Bangles, The Pretenders, Linda Ronstadt, Roy Orbinson, Pat Benetar, Tina Turner, Bette Midler, Belinda Carlisle and many more.

Those couple of years were crazy times, which led to Luan growing up very quickly. Luan saw the bright and the dark side of the music industry firsthand. She witnessed the hedonistic and the sensible. She was amazed at the drink and drug culture that existed but avoided partaking whilst witnessing many mainly background and wannabee people destroy themselves. She resolved to never take that route herself. However she explains that it is very easy to understand why some people in the industry fall in to the trap of addiction. Some mistakenly believe it helps with creativity. Some use alcohol and drugs to calm nerves and others to retain or regain the high they get from performing. Luan is at pains to point out that she is not critical of these people and accepts it as being part of the business. She gets her natural high from performing and doesn’t feel the need for anything else to substitute that feeling.

The experience she was gaining working with the cream of producers and session musicians was invaluable in taking Luan to a level where she could and often did co-produce her work.

At this stage Luan was already well on the way to becoming a very astute businesswoman and decided to set-up her own company to control the resources she had to work with. The good early advice from her parents paid off as she could now manage her own business having the necessary accounting, budgeting, organisational and Information Technology skills.

Luan then hooked up with UK producer Stephen Lironi – Altered Images, Lloyd Cole etc. to create the album “Free”.

After some delay “Free” was finally released in early 2007 to great critical acclaim.

This was swiftly followed by the 2007 Meteor Award for “Best Irish Female Artist” and the album was short listed to the final three (with Snow Patrol & Duke Special) at Northern Irelands “Big Buzz” Entertainment Industry Awards. Luan won an award at the lavish Belfast ceremony for “Most Stylish Female Entertainer”.

Luan and her management decided to set out on a self financed national tour. What started as 10 dates in May 2007 finished as 50 dates in November 2007. A big intentional part of the tour was performances in Arts Theatres nationwide where no age restrictions applied. This tied in with another passion of Luan’s. To coincide with these concerts she provided secondary school song writing workshops and invariably had students guest for her at the shows. The tour was a huge success.

In amongst the general tour dates Luan guested for INXS, toured with Nanci Griffith, played the Midlands Music Festival, headlined the Oxjam charity gigs in Dublin and Belfast and headlined the Marie Keating Foundation fundraiser in the Hard Rock Café, all to great acclaim. Nanci and her band stood side stage for her set each night on the tour and they could not believe she was not a huge name in America. INXS said they were “blown away” by her performance.

The tour, which was a major undertaking for a solo Irish artist, gave another indication of Luan’s ability to manage other than the creative side of her career. With the help of a very small and dedicated team the tour, which was fully self-financed and promoted turned a profit despite intentionally low ticket prices. Yet another testament to the brains behind the beauty!

All through the year Luan’s MySpace started to grow at a phenomenal rate. Luan is now the most played Irish Female artist on MySpace and is the 4th most played artist overall. Plays well exceed a million and fans added exceed 18,000.

In November Luan was honored with the Tatler Award for “Music woman of the Year”. It was a great end to a great year for the young Wicklow woman and a fitting tribute for all the hard work.

Luan is on target to reach her next goal, which is to break America. There is a lot of interest and a decision on the best course of action is under careful consideration.

America is calling, and a still young Luan now has the experience to add to her undoubted talent. One major player in the US has said: “Luan is the TOTAL package. A stunning voice, amazing song writing, sultry and sexy good looks, wonderful personality, an absolute focus on her goals and the wiliness to work tirelessly to reach them. This time next year Luan Parle may well be a global household name.