As artists go SOPHIE was someone who would stand out for decades to come. An icon in their own right, through music they rebelled against societal norms and outdated standards of what music should be, gender binary and requiring an image to be attached with music.
They looked into the future far beyond where everyone else was capable of seeing. In their own words:
"There's a huge amount of work to be done culturally and socially.
The gap between where we are now and I imagine where we could be and the places that our imaginations can take us are so far away from what we're presented with a lot if the time."
SOPHIE was a driving force for the underground genre of electronic music that so many lgbtq+ kids relate to nowadays, they provided a sense of escapism from reality and isolation.
From their early releases as an unknown face with PRODUCT or PC Music's QT project, to their breakout Grammy-nominated LP OIL OF EVERY PEARLS UN-INSIDE'S; they crafted work that not only shifted electronic music, but challenged the pop music landscape as a whole with their inventive sound.
An Artist that loved texture of sound and pushing it further and further to it's limits: there is nothing remotely close to their skills as a producer and I'm certain there will be no one else like them.
Today we lost a visionary.
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