Lorie Line
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Lorie Line (born 1958) is a classically trained pianist and arranger/composer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Life and career
Line grew up in Reno, Nevada, and has played the piano since she was five years old. As a young musician, she won several state piano competitions annually. Line obtained a B.A. in Music, Piano Performance from the University of Nevada in Reno. She married Tim Line in 1986 before moving to Minnesota to accept a job as a pianist for Dayton's department stores.{{cn|date=September 2023}}
Since 1989, she has written and arranged over 700 songs, published over 50 books of sheet music, recorded 60 CDs, released on her own independent label. She has sold over 6 million albums and continues to tour and perform about 50 concerts per year. She has produced three television specials for PBS and won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2002 in the entertainment category. In 2015, Line was inducted in the Minnesota Hall of Fame.{{cn|date=September 2023}}
References
External links
- {{official|https://www.lorieline.com/about.php}}www.lorieline.com
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Category:Musicians from Reno, Nevada
Category:University of Nevada, Reno alumni
Category:Musicians from Minneapolis
Category:20th-century American pianists
Category:20th-century American women pianists