Soko (born Stéphanie Sokolinski) is a French singer and actress. She was born in Bordeaux in France to a Polish family and has been called Soko as far back as she can remember.She has appeared in several French movies, and got her start as a singer after she got her heart broken and decided to write a song to her beloved.
In 2007, she had a big hit in Denmark with her song "I'll Kill Her" after the radio program The Black Boy Scouts started hyping the song.The song reached number one on the chart of the Danish version of the iTunes Store and was the number one song in rotation on radio.The song is also a hit in Australia, being played on high rotation on Triple J radio(where it placed number nine in Triple J Hottest 100 2007 music poll), in Belgium being played by Studio Brussel and Radio 1, and in The Netherlands , being picked up by 3FM radio station. In October 2007 her music was featured in Stella McCartney’s fashion show in Paris.She toured in the UK in late 2007 supporting M.I.A on the KALA Tour. Since early 2008 she is also played in Germany by 1LIVE, first only at night in 1Live Plan B but later, due to high demand, throughout the whole day.
She has not put out a full album. Nevertheless, she has had sold out concerts in Denmark.She performed at the Falls Festival at the end of 2008, the Southbound Festival and the Sunset Sounds Festival at the start of 2009.She has her own record label called Babycat Record.
On the 19th of January 2009 she stated on her MySpace page that she was quitting and is 'dead', saying that she got scared of the music industry and wanted to stay free and go back to acting.Despite having recorded a double album in Seattle, she is not willing to release it which has resulted in a lot of reactions from her fans on her myspace page. She also cancelled SXSW this year.
Soko is featured in the music video for "Cartoons and Forever Plans" by Maria Taylor featuring R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe. The video was directed by SKINNY (Directing Team) .She is vegan and currently lives in Los Angeles.
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