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Sophie Hunger (born Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti on 31 March 1983) is a Swiss singer-songwriter,
„Man braucht irgendeine Bewusstlosigkeit“
Interview for Jetzt.De, published 28 December 2008. Retrieved 21 May 2010. While a child, Hunger took piano lessons for a time. She was familiar with
„Ich glaube, das Ganze ist ein Zufall.“
Published 3 March 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2010.
From 2002 to 2006, Hunger was a guest singer for the project Superterz and appears on the 2006 album ''Standards'' released by that group. Starting in 2004, Hunger was the lead singer of the
Sophies Welt
Published 14 December 2007. Published in:
''1983'', her third album after ''Sketches At Sea'' and ''Monday's Ghost'', released in early 2010. This album was described as being a further development of her own mix of genres exhibited on the previous two albums. In June 2010, Sophie Hunger and her band played the John Peel stage at 
''Supermoon'', her fifth album, has been released in 2015. This album was described as alluding to the jazz roots from Hunger's first few albums, while mixing musical genres on every track.
In 2017 she made an appearance on the single "Song of I", a track from
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film composer
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, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, blues harp
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, piano) and bandleader, currently living in Berlin.
Early life
Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti was born on 31 March 1983 inBern
Bern (), or Berne (), ; ; ; . is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city".; ; ; . According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has gov ...
, Switzerland. She was a diplomat's daughter and grew up, with two older siblings, in Bern, London, Bonn
Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...
and Zurich. She graduated high-school in 2002, then subsequently studied German
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and English
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.Erik Brandt Hoege„Man braucht irgendeine Bewusstlosigkeit“
Interview for Jetzt.De, published 28 December 2008. Retrieved 21 May 2010. While a child, Hunger took piano lessons for a time. She was familiar with
jazz
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from an early age, since her father used to listen to it. Independently, she had a varying taste in music; as a teenager, she first was into hip-hop
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and R&B. Later she listened to rock – then, as a young adult, she discovered country
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, bluegrass and folk
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.Jakob Buhre„Ich glaube, das Ganze ist ein Zufall.“
Published 3 March 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2010.
Career
From 2002 to 2006, Hunger was a guest singer for the project Superterz and appears on the 2006 album ''Standards'' released by that group. Starting in 2004, Hunger was the lead singer of the indie rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent reco ...
group ''Fisher''. The band split in 2007.Tobi MüllerSophies Welt
Published 14 December 2007. Published in:
Das Magazin
''Tages-Anzeiger'' (), also abbreviated ''Tagi'' or ''TA'', is a Swiss German-language national daily newspaper published in Zurich, Switzerland.
History and profile
The paper was first published under the name ''Tages-Anzeiger für Stadt und K ...
, number 50/2007.
Hunger plays guitar, blues harp
The Richter-tuned harmonica, 10-hole harmonica (in Asia) or blues harp (in America), is the most widely known type of harmonica. It is a variety of diatonic scale, diatonic harmonica, with ten holes which offer the player 19 notes (10 holes tim ...
, piano and composes most of her songs in , French, , German and . In 2006, in a few days, she home-recorded her solo début album, '' Sketches on Sea.''
On 6 July 2008, Hunger and her band gave a concert in the Miles Davis Hall at the Montreux Jazz Festival, as well as Yael Naim
Yael Naim (; born 6 February 1978) is a French-born Israeli singer and actress. She rose to fame in 2008 in the US after her hit single "New Soul" was used by Apple Inc., Apple in an advertising campaign for its MacBook Air. The song peaked at N ...
and Camille. In July 2009, Hunger and her band closed out day 2 of TEDGlobal
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.
''1983'', her third album after ''Sketches At Sea'' and ''Monday's Ghost'', released in early 2010. This album was described as being a further development of her own mix of genres exhibited on the previous two albums. In June 2010, Sophie Hunger and her band played the John Peel stage at Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts (commonly referred to as simply Glastonbury Festival, known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most su ...
. Sophie Hunger was the first Swiss artist that has ever played there. In July 2010 she played at the 100 Club, London, in October 2010 at The Roundhouse
The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England. The building was erected in 1846–1847 by the London & North Western Railway as a roundhouse, a circ ...
, London. Later that year, it was announced that Sophie Hunger would release a début record for the North American market as ''Sophie Hunger: s/t'' on Manimal Vinyl
Manimal Vinyl is a Los Angeles–based record label founded in 2006 by film/TV producer, composer and former fashion editor Paul Gebser-Beahan.
History
The label was started out of Beahan's living room in late 2006 in the historical Hancock Pa ...
in April 2011. The CD contained tracks from ''1983'' and ''Monday's Ghost''.
In 2011, her version of Noir Désir
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's " Le vent nous portera", which first appeared on ''1983'', was featured in the film ''Café de Flore'', directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.
In 2012, Hunger released her fourth Album, ''The Danger Of Light'', which has been described to be influenced by jazz, or as changing between the genres folk, rock, pop and chansons.
She participated in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2013 as a featured artist on the song "Fremde" with rapper Max Herre
Maximilian Herre (born 22 April 1973) is a German rapper, singer-songwriter and music producer who rose to fame as a member of the group Freundeskreis. He is also A&R for the record label Nesola, a joint venture with his wife Joy Denalane, am ...
. Representing the German state of Baden-Württemberg, they finished in eighth place with a total of 51 points. The song was included in a deluxe version of the 2012 German number-one album ''Hallo Welt!'', in which Sophie also contributed vocals and lyrics to the song "Berlin - Tel Aviv".
''Supermoon'', her fifth album, has been released in 2015. This album was described as alluding to the jazz roots from Hunger's first few albums, while mixing musical genres on every track.
In 2017 she made an appearance on the single "Song of I", a track from Steven Wilson
Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is an English musician. He is the founder, guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter of the rock band Porcupine Tree, as well as being a member of several other bands, including Blackfield, Storm Corrosi ...
's To the Bone.
On August 31, 2018, ''Molecules'', Hunger's sixth album, was released. This album, being produced by Dan Carey, makes heavy use of synthesizers and other electronic instruments, and was described as a "fresh new start".
Continuing the cooperation with Carey, Hunger released her latest album, ''Halluzinationen'' (Hallucinations), in 2020. Having been recorded in two days at Abbey Road Studios
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, it was described as being "more versatile" than preceding works.
During the COVID-19 pandemic
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, Sophie Hunger and fellow Swiss artists Faber and Dino Brandão formed ''Brandão Faber Hunger'', a supergroup to release a single album, ''Ich liebe Dich'' (I love You) in December 2020. It is an album of love songs exclusively sung in Swiss German
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.
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
;With the band Fisher, under the name Emilie Welti: * 2006: Fisher – ''Fisher'' (Kuenschtli.ch) * 2006: ''Superterz: Standards''Singles
;as Lead artist ;as Featured artistSoundtrack
;as Emilie Welti * 2008: ''Der Freund'' (with Marcel Vaid): * 2010: ''Zimmer 202'';as Sophie Hunger * 2016: ''
My Life as a Courgette
''My Life as a Courgette'' (; also titled ''My Life as a Zucchini'' in North America and Australia) is a 2016 stop-motion animated comedy-drama film directed by Claude Barras, and co-written by Céline Sciamma. It was screened in the Directors' F ...
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Filmography
;as Emilie Welti * 2008: ''Der Freund'' * 2012: ''Der Kumpel'' ;as Sophie Hunger * 2012: ''The Rules of Fire'' * 2016: ''My Life as a Courgette
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Awards and nominations
References
External links
* *Sophie Hunger
on YouTube * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunger, Sophie 1983 births Living people English-language singers from Switzerland Swiss film score composers French-language singers of Switzerland German-language singers of Switzerland Musicians from Bern Musicians from Zurich 21st-century Swiss women singers Swiss singer-songwriters Swiss women singer-songwriters Swiss jazz musicians Swiss jazz guitarists Swiss women jazz singers Women jazz guitarists 21st-century multi-instrumentalists Swiss harpists Swiss jazz pianists Swiss women jazz pianists 21st-century Swiss musicians 21st-century Swiss guitarists 21st-century women guitarists 21st-century Swiss women pianists 21st-century Swiss pianists