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Sophie (Musician)

LC control no.no2016017466
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Personal name headingSophie (Musician)
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Variant(s)Xeon, Sophie
Other standard no.Q18161827
Associated placeLondon (England)
Birth date1986-09-17
Death date2021-01-30
Place of birthGlasgow (Scotland)
Place of deathAthens (Greece)
Field of activityElectronic dance music
Profession or occupationSound recording executives and producers Composers Musicians
Found inSophie (Musician). Sophie, 2015: label (Sophie) insert (all tracks written and produced by Sophie)
Wikipedia, February 9, 2016 (Sophie (producer); Samuel Long; London-based electronic music producer who works under the stage name Sophie (stylised as SOPHIE))
AllMusic, February 9, 2016 (Under the moniker SOPHIE, reclusive London-based musician Samuel Long made a splash on the underground dance-pop scene during the mid-2010s with a series of singles that contorted elements of giddy Eurodance, Japanese and Korean pop, and experimental sound design into pop-art gems. Originally from Scotland.)
Wikipedia, May 29, 2019 (also known as Sophie Xeon, now identifies as female)
New York Times WWW site, viewed January 30, 2021 (Sophie; Sophie Xeon; born September 17, 1986, Glasgow, Scotland; died Saturday [January 30, 2021] in Athens, Greece, aged 34, where she was living; had previously lived in Berlin and London; producer and performer, influential in the genre of hyperpop; she came out as transgender in 2017)