My music trajectory has been somewhat comparative to perservering around a derelict labyrinth whilst David Bowie in lycra runs around you with a herd of little goblins in musical skits telling you you'll never get to the kingdom. That covers both my favourite childhood film and the past decade. My journey of overcoming and transformation through therapies and sobriety informs my music, and country as a genre is what informs me of a place that I can exist, where 'three chords and truth' are welcomed and celebrated.

I grew up in working class south west England, I didn't know any musicians or artists as a kid and didn't understand that to be a reality I could have. But thanks to my Grandad for playing Johnny Cash, my Gran taking me line dancing to all the country greats, my Mum playing Shania Twain's Come on Over album on every car ride and her, my sister and me joyfully singing along, Dad playing Tracy Chapman, Nina Simone, Harry Nillson, Fleetwood Mac, my stepdad wailing along to Bowie, and my dear stepmum giving me Alanis Morisette's album Jagged Little Pill I was off to a good start... 

In 2020 I found myself stuck in Los Angeles during a very difficult time in our world, I was staying in a room above a friend's juice bar in East Hollywood. I've still not quite figured out how to tell that story, but those months changed everything, and when I made it home to the UK, everything had changed.

It was meeting with Danny McMahon and Drea Succi of Puzzle Maker Studios in Bristol in 2021, when Danny said to me 'have you thought about singing country and americana?' to which I replied 'I'm not allowed!', to which he simply said (and kicked open a vault that I'd been hiding away in even from myself) 'Of course you're allowed!'

So in 2022, surrounded by community and a team of core support, I launched my career as a solo artist in UK country music. My debut single 'Healing in the Burn' cowritten with Danny climbed the UK itunes charts hitting number 1 in country and rose to 57 in the all genre chart. I debuted my EP 'To the Core'  live at the O2 Academy Bristol as part of a mental health fundraising event called Vision, and I was invited onto BBC Introducing Oxford where I had my first radio interview with Dave Gilyeat. I moved from living in Oxford to the west of Scotland at the end of 2022, and I've been playing live up and down the country since, falling in love with places from Bristol to Glasgow and connecting with like minded folks, leaning in learning and navigating the industry whilst planning and preparing my next body of work.

To be honest, I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going there.

Thank you for being here.

Sophie x