Sophie Hunger (born Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti on 31 March 1983) is a Swiss singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, blues harp, piano) and bandleader, currently living 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.

While a child, Hunger took piano lessons for a time. She was familiar with jazz 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 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 English, French, Swiss German, German and Swiss Italian. 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 and Camille. In July 2009, Hunger and her band closed out day 2 of TEDGlobal.

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. 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, 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 in April 2011. The CD contained tracks from 1983 and Monday's Ghost.

In 2011, her version of Noir Désir'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. 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's To the Bone. ...

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Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti, dite Sophie Hunger, née le 31 mars 1983 à Berne, est une auteure-compositrice-interprète suisse de folk-pop-blues.

Elle compose aussi quelques bandes originales de films, dont celle du film d'animation Ma vie de Courgette.

Sophie Hunger compose ses chansons en anglais, en suisse-allemand, en allemand ou en français. Elle joue également de la guitare acoustique et électrique, du piano et de l'harmonica.

Après sa révélation, fin 2006 en Suisse romande, Sophie Hunger et ses musiciens donnent un concert au Miles Davis Hall dans le cadre du Montreux Jazz Festival, le 6 juillet 2008. Après avoir produit elle-même Sketches on Sea dans son salon, elle propose, en octobre 2008, l'album studio Monday's Ghost, produit avec Marcello Giuliani, suivi d'une tournée.

1983 est le titre du troisième disque paru en 2010, produit avec Stéphane Briat.

En novembre 2011, elle effectue une tournée d'un mois aux États-Unis avec Michael Flury et Christian Prader.

En septembre 2012 son quatrième album The Danger Of Light, produit par Adam Samuels, est suivi par une tournée au Canada et en Europe.

En avril 2015, Sophie Hunger sort Supermoon, son cinquième album, composé de dix-huit titres.

En septembre 2016, elle reçoit le Grand Prix suisse de musique. La même année, sort le film d'animation Ma vie de Courgette, dont elle a composé la musique; cette bande originale lui vaut un Prix du cinéma suisse en 2017.

En septembre 2018, La chanteuse est revenue début septembre avec l'album Molécules: un passage franc et direct à l'électro. Connue pour ses talents de musicienne acoustique, elle s'aventure dans un nouveau genre.

La chanteuse bernoise installée à Berlin publie "Halluzinationen" en 2020, un septième album enregistré d'une traite dans les conditions du live au mythique studio Abbey Road de Londres. Sophie Hunger y revient pleine de spontanéité et d'introspections pop.

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