Hana Loggins Is Now Lu: What’s Actually Confirmed

Back in 2019, a 21-year-old singer-songwriter in Santa Barbara sat down with the Montecito Journal and explained, in his own words, why he didn’t perform under his father’s last name. Seven years later, that same conversation about identity has continued in a much bigger way — in a documentary about his father, Kenny Loggins, that’s now playing festival screens across the country.

The short answer

Lu Loggins — born Hana Loggins in 1997, and known for several years as musician “Hana Aluna” — is Kenny Loggins’ youngest child. He’s a Santa Barbara singer-songwriter with a handful of real entertainment credits, and his gender transition is a featured storyline in his father’s 2026 career-retrospective documentary, Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart.

Choosing his own name, the first time

Long before the documentary, Lu was already navigating what it meant to carry a famous last name. In the 2019 Montecito Journal interview, he described not wanting to pursue music seriously until he was 18 or 19 — not because he lacked interest, but because of the weight of expectation. He didn’t want to be filed under his father’s legacy before he’d had a chance to develop his own.

That’s the context behind the stage name Hana Aluna, which he used at the time specifically to have my own sound, my own voice. He told the paper that when he first started writing songs he actually wanted to share, his father took him aside and made a point of telling him he didn’t have to pursue music at all — that it wasn’t an obligation. By his own account, that conversation changed how he thought about his own path.

The interview also captured smaller, more human details: stage fright he’d been working through in order to play a handful of solo shows around Santa Barbara, and hundreds of unreleased songs he’d written in the years before he started performing publicly. He joked to the paper that he mostly writes sad songs, because he isn’t especially good at writing anything sunnier.

The music that’s actually on the record

Separate from the interview, there’s a small but real professional footprint. Kenny Loggins wrote and recorded “Hana Aluna Lullabye” for his youngest child as a toddler; it appeared on the 2000 album More Songs from Pooh Corner. In 2009, father and child appeared together in the music video for “There Is a Mountain,” directed by Nigel Dick — a credit that shows up on both IMDb and MUBI. IMDb also lists additional credits under the name Hana Aluna, including Circulation and Kenny Loggins and Friends.

None of that amounts to a full-blown public career, and it shouldn’t be inflated into one. It’s a real, if modest, entertainment-credit trail — useful context, not proof of stardom.

From Hana to Lu

The more significant update is one that mainstream press has now covered directly. Kenny Loggins’ documentary Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart, released in April 2026 and directed by Dori Berinstein, chronicles Loggins’ career and includes his son’s gender transition as a storyline. Wikipedia’s entry on Kenny Loggins now identifies his child, previously listed as Hana, as Lu.

Loggins has spoken about it in interviews tied to the film’s release. Talking to PEOPLE at the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame induction ceremony this year, he described wanting to balance out the negativity often aimed at trans people and their families, saying part of his motivation for including the story was to publicly express an expression of love that I wanted to do for him. In a separate conversation with the Canadian Press, he was direct about the shift: he’d had to check in with his child — previously his daughter, now his son — to make sure he was comfortable having the story told on camera.

The documentary premiered publicly at the Newport Folk Festival in mid-2026, where coverage from local outlet What’s Up Newp noted that Loggins’ children, including the son who transitioned from Hana to Lu, appeared throughout the film, and that discussing them brought out some of the rawest moments from Loggins on stage afterward.

Director Dori Berinstein has also drawn a direct parallel between the two men’s journeys — noting that Kenny Loggins’ own line about his career being a lifelong process of learning to be himself ended up mirroring what his son was going through at the same time.

Confirmed vs. unverified

Confirmed, with sourcing:

• Lu Loggins (born Hana, 1997) is Kenny Loggins’ youngest child, full sibling to Lukas Loggins (b. 1993), and half-sibling to Crosby Loggins — Montecito Journal, Wikipedia
• Performed and released music as “Hana Aluna” starting in his late teens/early 20s — Montecito Journal
• Credited on IMDb/MUBI for the “There Is a Mountain” video (2009) and additional listed credits — IMDb, MUBI
• “Hana Aluna Lullabye” appears on More Songs from Pooh Corner (2000) — KennyLoggins.com, Amazon Music
• Gender transition is a documented storyline in Kenny Loggins: Conviction of the Heart (2026), discussed publicly by Kenny Loggins — Wikipedia, PEOPLE (via AOL/Yahoo), What’s Up Newp

Circulating but unverified — not repeated here:

• Specific net worth figures (several sites cite $500K–$1M with no sourcing)
• Exact birth time/location details
• Current occupation, relationship status, or “advisory” career claims

Where public sources are silent, that’s stated plainly rather than filled in with a guess.

Sources

• Montecito Journal — “7 Qs with Hana” (2019)
• Wikipedia — Kenny Loggins
• AOL/PEOPLE — “Kenny Loggins Shares the One Piece of Advice He’d Give to Other Parents of Trans Children”
• What’s Up Newp — “Kenny Loggins takes Newport by storm!”
• IMDb — Hana Aluna / Hana Loggins credits
• MUBI — Kenny Loggins Feat. Hana: There Is a Mountain [MV]
• KennyLoggins.com official discography; Apple Music — “There Is a Mountain” (2009)

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