Portrait of Soko

Soko

Actors · Musicians

🇫🇷 France

French singer

About Soko

Stéphanie Alexandra Mina Sokolinski (born 26 October 1985), known professionally as Soko (stylized as SoKo), is a French singer and actress. She released her debut single "I'll Kill Her" in 2007. It achieved airplay success in several European countries as well as Australia, peaking at number three on the Danish music charts, and was included on her debut EP Not Sokute (2007).

Her debut studio album I Thought I Was an Alien was released in 2012 and contains the single "We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow", which achieved ninth place on the Billboard Hot 100. Ensuing years saw the releases of her second and third studio albums My Dreams Dictate My Reality (2015) and Feel Feelings (2020). As an actress, Soko began appearing in a number of French productions in the early 2000s and earned a César Award for Most Promising Actress nomination for her role in the film In the Beginning (2009).

She won the Courage in Acting Award at the Women Film Critics Circle Awards and the Best Actress award at the Mar del Plata Film Festival for her role as Augustine in the film Augustine (2012). She later appeared in the short film First Kiss (2014), which featured "We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow" and contributed to the song's chart success. Her role as Loie Fuller in The Dancer (2016) earned her Best Actress nominations at the César and Lumière Awards.

Quick facts

Known for
Girls on Film (Making Patterns Rhyme Version), Oh My Love, Feel Feelings
Born
1985-10-26
Artist type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Bordeaux
Associated area
France
Active period
1985-10-26
MusicBrainz description
French singer
Genres
folk pop, indie pop, indietronica, new wave, pop
Music tags
alternative, alternative singer/songwriter, alternative/indie rock, classic pop and rock, folk pop, indie electronic, indie pop, indietronica, new wave, pop, queer
ISNI
0000000002372634, 0000000382905518
IPI
00568268899

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