Soko (singer)
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Soko at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
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| Birth name | Stéphanie Sokolinski |
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26 October 1985 Bordeaux, France |
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| Years active | 2002–present |
| Labels | Because Music |
| Associated acts | Ariel Pink, The Brian Jonestown Massacre |
| Website | www |
Stéphanie Sokolinski (born 26 October 1985), better known by her stage name Soko (stylized as SoKo), is a French singer-songwriter, musician and actress.
Sokolinski was born in Bordeaux, France from a Russian-Polish father and a French-Italian mother. She has used the nickname Soko as long as she can remember. Soko left home at 16, quit school and moved to Paris to start acting class with Eva Saint-Paul where she studied for one year; she then resumed her education at several different schools, but quickly became tired of it and dropped out. She later appeared in several French films and began to write songs.
In 2007, Sokolinski achieved a hit single in Denmark with a personal anecdotal song, "I'll kill her", after the radio program The Black Boy Scouts began to promote it. 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; it later placed number nine in the Triple J Hottest 100 2007 music poll. The song was also popular in Belgium being played by Studio Brussel, Radio 1 and Pure FM, 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 has also been played in Germany by 1LIVE, first only at night in 1Live Plan B but later, due to high demand, throughout the whole day.
Sokolinski has self-released one EP Not Sokute, and collaborated with The Go! Team and Cornershop, the latter on a song called "Something Makes You Feel Like". She has her own record label called Babycat Records and is signed to Because Music in France.
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