linda georgina gina haley born april 23 1975 in mexico is an american singersongwriterhaley is the youngest child of rock and roll pioneer bill haley from his marriage to his last wife martha she grew up in harlingen and she was only five years old when her father died in 1981 at 18 years old she left home and set out to find her musical identity which landed her in houston txshe is classically trained on piano and an accomplished selftaught guitarist and songwriter during the mid1990s she left houston and moved to los angelesshe managed to catch the eye of producer michael sembello and worked closely with him writing recording and arranging tracks which appeared in television and movies gina also worked closely with songwriter richard rudolph and published songs through music sales group her first selftitled album was released in japan in 1999 heat waveduring these years in los angeles she sang with the world music group called the bridge whose members included edu falcao daniel jobim paulinho da costa vincent colaiuta and michael sembellogina later formed her own group the gina haley band and continues to work in the musical field in her home state of texason july 6 2005 she performed with her fathers old band the comets at the viper room in west hollywood as part of 50th anniversary celebrations of her fathers famous song rock around the clock reaching the no 1 position on american sales charts as well as what would have been bill haleys 80th birthdayin june 2008 the gina haley band performed at the bill haley induction to the south texas music walk of fame in corpus christi tx other inductees included chelo silva pat grogan joe gallardo max stalling and the reverend horton heatmeeting jim heath aka reverend horton heat was an important event in ginas life jim had not intended to perform at the induction ceremony as his band had not traveled with him but decided to dedicate a bill haley song to gina a song that inspired him to become a musician that song was rock the joint after years of contemplating making a rockabilly album gina had finally decided that it was time to carry on her fathers legacy a year later she sang rock the joint with reverend horton heat at a concert in dallas tx she is now preparing a rockabilly show that is due to start next march 2011 in the uk with an album to followshe continues to perform in texas with the gina haley band aka ghb in her original alternative country sound