SOPHI
Houston
Electro Pop Singer-Songwriter, SOPHI delivers her edgy lyrics with a sultry, yet powerful voice to a fusion of Pop, Dance & Alternative inspired music. Her new single “Medication” is the first song to be released with her new sound and is catching the attention of all who listen including British producer, James Sanger. Sanger, who has worked with the likes of Brian Eno, U2, Bryan Ferry, Phil Collins, Kylie Minogue, Annie Lennox, The Cure, Pet Shop Boys, Dido, Siobhan Donaghy, Keane, Madonna, KD Land, Sinead O’Connor, and Bryan Adams just to name a few, recognized SOPHI’s talent after listening to her new single “Medication”. SOPHI is currently finishing an EP with Sanger.
Since working with Sanger, she has removed all of her early teen YouTube uploads to begin sharing her new sound, but her younger recordings can still be found on iTunes for all of her fans that started out with her first single, “Boy In the Hallway”. Her previous YouTube uploads scored almost 2 million views generating fan counts over 220,000 on social media sites. Her current song plays are over 921,000 with over 1.9 million views on the independent artist site Reverberation where she is currently #1 on their Pop Charts.
SOPHI has received an incredible amount of accolades from prestigious songwriting and performance competitions. Recently recognized as a FINALIST in The Great American Song Contest for her song "MEDICATION", a SEMI-FINIALIST in the International Songwriting Competition and as a 2015 SEMI-FINALIST for the worldwide Unsigned Only Music Competition, an honor she has received for two years in a row, she was also selected as a 2015 House of Blues Music Forward Artist and selected to be on the House of Blues Music Forward Advisory Board for 2016. Additionally, SOPHI was selected as an International Songwriting Competition SEMI-FINALIST for her song "Like Me”, a 2013 Breakout Artist of the Year Finalist, and a "Global Emerging Artist" by Sony Music. She was named "Best Vocalist of the Month" by SingerUniverse and her single "Like Me" was featured by the Daily Unsigned Radio to millions of drivers of cars manufactured by Honda, Ford, Porsche and more through their AHA stereo platform. Her original track "Free for the Moment" that she wrote at the young age of 12 was placed by Union Square Media & DirecTV in their Gone Until December series on women surfers. In 2011, SOPHI was selected by Music World Entertainment (run by Beyonce' & her father Matthew Knowles) for their Kids Jamz Pop CD and was also chosen the same year as one of the International Songwriting Competition’s “Crank Your Cred” Finalists for her song "Boy in the Hallway".
SOPHI had a variety of musical influences growing up from U2, Depeche Mode, the Pet Shop Boys, and Sting to the legendary Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline. Her current musical influences include Halsey, Lana Del Rey, Banks, and Birdy.
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