Malou Toler & The Friends Of Mine Band

If all that we keep is the journey, then singer/songwriter Malou Toler already has her hands full. She recently won the "Overall Performer" award at this year's Malibu Music Awards show, which is the highest award possible to win. She calls herself an acoustic singer yet she can sing just about any style including folk, R&B and rock and roll. Malou's idols growing up have been Tina Turner, Sheryl Crow, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, Melissa Etheridge and Joan Jett.

At age 9, Malou began writing original songs and singing at St. Bridgette's elementary school. During high school, Malou's music career took off to a new level, where she was signed to a lable and toured all over Japan and other parts of the world lugging her guitar and repertoire of mostly cover songs, busking up and down the local weekend markets. At 15, she spent a few months in the UK. "That was a real experience, I loved it. I was playing a lot of folk songs and that was the real start for me.

By age 23, Malou had toured the world playing for thousands of audiences and had created a following of die-hard fans of all ages and in every continent and recorded with many artists all around the USA, Europe and Aust. She's opened for artists such as Lita Ford, Cherie Currie, Glen Hughes from Deep Purple, Slash and many more.

Malou Toler has spent a lifetime devoted to music. She is completely comfortable on stage and loves to engage the audience with her humor and quick wit and always leaves her audience wanting and demanding more. She landed a high-profile support slot touring the US and also toured Australia and New Zealand playing to more than 200 different audiences. In 2007, Malou recorded her first full length CD called "Spark of Life" to rave reviews. It follows her successful independently- released EP which sold out in record number and is now no longer available except to the lucky few who might find it in a used record store. Toler is currently recording her latest album in Hollywood with Peggi Blu, Gretchen Bonaduce and a list of others. Her New Single "Never Rain on My Parade" is now avaialble on Itunes, spotify, amazon and cdbaby.com