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Who is Sophie Xeon? Google Doodle celebrates art pop pioneer
Hyper pop pioneer Sophie Xeon was honoured with a Google Doodle on Tuesday for what would have been her thirty eighth birthday.
The Scottish DJ and producer, who died aged 34 in 2021, is remembered for her “acclaimed experimental pop and digital music” – the search engine has stated.
The Google Doodle is a montage of cartoon drawing clips set to Immaterial, a music from her first album Oil of Each Pearl’s Un-Insides.
Sophie’s tribute could be discovered on the homepage of Google and is seen within the UK in addition to elements of Europe and South America for September 17.
Here’s what made Sophie particular.
Sophie died in 2021
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Sophie was critically considered a pioneer in pop sounds, with phrases equivalent to experimental pop, hyperpop, digital pop and dance pop being utilized to her manufacturing fashion.
She launched one studio album in her lifetime, Oil of Each Pearl’s Un-Insides in 2018 which got here on the again of the 2015 compilation launch, Product.
A posthumous LP, SOPHIE, that includes beforehand unreleased music, shall be launched on September 27.
Sophie can also be well-known for producing work for different artists, together with work on Madonna’s Insurgent Coronary heart album and, significantly, for Charli XCX’s Vroom Vroom and No 1 Angel EPs.
She was nominated for a Grammy in 2019 for Oil of Each Pearl’s Un-Insides for Greatest Dance/Digital Album.
“Music and the long run had been at all times on the centre of Sophie’s world,” a Google assertion reads.
“Whereas touring her personal units, in addition to beginning to produce pop music for different artists, Sophie and associates started growing concepts for her subsequent period. With it she would introduce a extra performative aspect.”
The assertion added: “The long run has at all times been an enormous a part of Sophie, and we hope Sophie continues to be an enormous a part of the long run.
“As at all times with Sophie, precisely what comes subsequent and what form it takes stays to be seen. One factor is for certain, there’s much more nonetheless to return.”
How did Sophie Xeon die?
It was reported that she fell from the third storey of the constructing whereas attempting to take an image of the complete moon.
Her loss of life sparked widespread mourning throughout the trade.
Christine and the Queens wrote: “Sophie was a stellar producer, a visionary, a reference. She rebelled in opposition to the slim, normative society by being an absolute triumph, each as an artist and as a girl.
“I can’t consider she is gone. We have to honour and respect her reminiscence and legacy. Cherish the pioneers.”
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