Sonny Hall (born 10 June 1998) is an English model, artist and poet.
Hall released his debut
poetry collection
A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's ''Four Quartets' ...
, ''The Blues Comes With Good News'', through
in September 2019. He was signed to
Kate Moss
Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is an English model. Arriving towards the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her t ...
's modelling agency for a brief time.
Early life
Hall was born in
Essex
Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...
. From ages three to four, he moved between foster homes with his twin brother, Harvey. They were eventually adopted at age four. And then raised in
Wandsworth
Wandsworth Town () is a district of south London, within the London Borough of Wandsworth southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
Toponymy
Wandsworth takes its name ...
, south west London and
Surrey
Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the wes ...
.
He did maintain contact with his birth mother.
He dropped out of sixth form in 2014.
He began using drugs in his teenage years, but fell into an addiction soon after his birth mother died of a heroin overdose in 2015. He rehabilitated at
The Cabin Chiang Mai addiction clinic in
Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2017. He has attended 8 different rehabs and speaks openly about his struggles today.
.
Career
Hall's career started when he was scouted at a gig in
Camden Town
Camden Town () is an area in the London Borough of Camden, around north-northwest of Charing Cross. Historically in Middlesex, it is identified in the London Plan as one of 34 major centres in Greater London.
Laid out as a residential distri ...
circa 2014.
In 2015, he modelled in British fashion photographer Nick Knight's fashion film, ''Yungsters''. Hall first began writing in 2017 when he was in rehab in Thailand.
He shortly began posting his own poetry on his personal
Instagram
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account.
Hall self published and released his debut poetry collection ''The Blues Comes With Good News'', in April 2019 which sold over 1.5 thousand copies with its first edition in just six months. A subsequent second edition was published in September 2019 by British publishing house Hodder & Stoughton.
He consequently was hired by British fashion designer
Christopher Bailey for one of his
Burberry
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campaigns alongside model
Adwoa Aboah.
Hall's Instagram also caught the attention of British singer
Rita Ora
Rita Sahatçiu Ora (; born Rita Sahatçiu; 26 November 1990) is a British singer-songwriter, television personality, and actress. Born in Pristina, modern-day Kosovo, she rose to prominence when she featured on DJ Fresh's 2012 single, "Hot Rig ...
who starred him in her music video for her smash hit single "
Let You Love Me
"Let You Love Me" is a song by British singer Rita Ora from her second studio album, '' Phoenix'' (2018). The song was written by Ora, Ilsey Juber, Noonie Bao, Linus Wiklund, Fred Gibson and Finn Keane, and produced by the last two. It was rel ...
".
Hall collaborated with friend and film director Jim Longden, where he played the lead role in Longden’s directing debut, To Erase A Cloud. Hall spoke at
Trinity College, Cambridge University in March 2023, discussing tradition in poetry, confession and struggling with addiction.
Personal life
In 2020, shortly before the
COVID-19 pandemic
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, Hall moved in and began dating British singer Celeste. They broke it off after 8 months. He began another relationship in 2025 that ended after he relapsed.
References
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Living people
1998 births
Models from London
English male models
English male poets
21st-century English poets