Sophie Hunger
| Sophie Hunger | |
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Sophie Hunger in concert (2009)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti |
| Also known as | Emilie Welti |
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31 March 1983 Bern, Switzerland |
| Origin | Zurich, Switzerland |
| Genres | Jazz pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, film composer |
| Instruments | Voice, guitar, blues harp, piano |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Labels | , Manimal |
| Website | SophieHunger |
Sophie Hunger (born Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti on 31 March 1983) is a Swiss jazz pop singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, blues harp, piano) and bandleader, living currently in Berlin.
Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti was born on 31 March 1983 in Bern, Switzerland. She was a diplomat's daughter and grew up, with two older siblings, in: Bern, London, Bonn and Zurich. She graduated high-school in 2002, then subsequently studied German and English.
During childhood, for some time Hunger took piano lessons. She was familiar with jazz from an early age, since her father was a listener. Independently, she had a varying taste in music, as a teenager, she first was into hip-hop and R&B. Later she listened to rock – then, as a young adult, she discovered country, bluegrass and folk.
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 group Fisher. The band split in 2007.
Hunger plays guitar, blues harp, piano and composes most of her songs in British English, French, Swiss German, German and Swiss Italian. In 2006, in a few days, she home-recorded her solo début album, , three tracks of which featured trombonist Michael Flury (ex-Keller’s 10). The album was initially self-released in 2006, then re-released the following year on .
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