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In Memory of SOPHIE
As the world attempts to come to terms with the sudden and tragic passing of SOPHIE, we remember the musician, artist and all-round creative powerhouse Feature by Nadia Younes | 01 Mar 2021
In the moments after the announcement of SOPHIE’s sudden passing on 30 January, social media timelines were awash with tributes to the late artist. Among those tributes, the same words kept popping up: visionary, pioneer, icon – such was SOPHIE’s mass impact on the lives of so many across the world.
SOPHIE died at around 4am on Saturday 30 January in Athens, Greece, aged 34, after an accidental fall. SOPHIE’s death was announced on Twitter in a joint statement by record labels Transgressive and Future Classic – the labels responsible for releasing SOPHIE’s Grammy-nominated debut album,
XHM #544 - The lives of our days (2021 February 15)
6:59pm - 9:01pm
It s Family Day here in BC so this hodge-podge of an episode is mostly in honour of director Michael Apted (1941-2021) and music from his films Coal Miner s Daughter, Gorky Park & The World is Not Enough.
1. Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams: Without Us [Theme from Family Ties] (Television s Greatest Hits - Volume 6: Remote Control, 1996) TVT
2. The Animals: It s My Life (It s My Life 7 , 1965) Columbia
3. Anthéne: Winter (Warmth, 2017) self-released
4. SOPHIE: Immaterial (Oil of Every Pearl s Un-Insides, 2018) Transgressive
5. SOPHIE & Shygirl [aka Clockwork Venus]: Slime (Cyberpunk 2077: Radio - Volume 1 OST, 2020) Lakeshore
6. Marcin Przybylowicz: Close Probing (Cyberpunk 2077: Original Score, 2020) CD Projekt Red
Elsewhere, Goosebumps rules the Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs chart for a third week, pushes 4-3 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay and improves 73-63 on the Billboard Hot 100. (It s the composition s second trip up the Hot 100, as Scott s original, hit No. 32 in 2017.)
Additionally on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs, Clean Bandit collects its seventh top 10, and featured vocalist Iann Dior earns his first, as Higher debuts at No. 10. The track starts with 2.2 million U.S. streams, also good for a No. 19 bow on Dance/Electronic Streaming Songs. On the latter list, the track follows Clean Bandit s sole leader, Solo, which spent three weeks at No. 1 in 2018.
Basside describes Sophie's demeanor in the studio as chill, making the collaboration with the producer, who died on January 30 after a fall in Athens, feel relaxed and comfortable.
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SOPHIE, the Grammy-nominated Scottish pop and avant-garde electronic producer, died on at 4am January 30, in Athens, Greece, where the artist resided. According to Transgressive Records, SOPHIE had climbed up to see the full moon, and accidentally fell. SOPHIE was 34.