Sophie was born on 20th April 1994 to a Maltese father and English mother. She has one elder sister. At the age of 8 she sang her first song in public. Her parents realised straight away that Sophie had caught the bug! Things then progressed rapidly. In 2002 she won the Malta World Championship for Performing Arts Junior Title as one of the members of The Maltese Entertainment Group 'The Young Talent Team' (pictured right). The prize: a trip to represent the Maltese Islands in The World Championships in Hollywood. Unfortunately, lack of sponsorship funds meant the World Championships never materialised! 2003 was a terrific year for her: Sophie joined forces with her friend Yazmin, and together they had their first taste of the big time singing on TVM in front of thousands of people. This duo lasted for 2 years. Sophie was also selected to represent Malta in the Little Miss World Talent Show, competing against 15 other countries. In 2004 she was lucky enough to be one of the 40 artists selected to perform for the Welcome EU Celebrations and she also got to taste solo TV success for the first time when she was chosen to become the resident artist on the TV series Fit Tajjeb u il Hazin' on TVM. The TV series Kalamita on �One TV' followed. In 2005, Sophie was selected as the Goodwill Ambassador at the annual charity festival Heart of Gold and got to sing with a 9 piece live band to a 4000 capacity sell out crowd, and she was the youngest artist invited to sing before Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, at The CHOGM Malta. In September 2006, Sophie's own composition Extra Cute, won the Junior Eurovision Malta Final (pictured right) and she was hugely honoured to represent Malta at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest Final, that year in Romania. In 2007 Sophie participated in the Live Earth Malta Festival and she was thrilled to become the resident guest artist on TVM's Hadd Ghalik playing to an estimated 80,000 viewers every Sunday. In 2008, she featured in the Maltese summer entertainment spectacle titled Showbiz High. This would prove to be the ultimate test of her multiple talents, as she choreographed major parts of the show, sang songs and even found time to write the lyrics to the title song. Later that year the entire cast was invited to London, to play 2 very special performances: These were the UK Malta Day Celebrations at Westminster Cathedral Hall and at Young Performers UK at the Shaftesbury Theatre, in London's West End. Both performances received standing ovations from packed audiences. Sophie ended the year scoring a huge personal success playing Sharpay Evans onstage in the Maltese production of Disney's High School Musical. In early January 2009 Sophie’s dad received news from British indie record label f2f Music Limited, that she had been shortlisted to the final 3 people from thousands of applications they had received, as a result of their global search for a talented singer songwriter. Then in late January Sophie’s dad was invited to travel to London to meet Graham Mulvein, Managing Director at f2f Music Limited. The record company had made their choice. They signed Sophie to a 3 year recording, publishing, management deal. Sophie was thrilled to be given this golden opportunity, as this is what she had always been dreaming of. Immediately after this, Sophie teamed up with Maltese producer, Elton Zarb to work and create her debut single ‘The Clapping Song’, a cover of the 1960s Shirley Ellis classic. In the meantime f2f Music flew Sophie to London for an exclusive photoshoot with leading rock n roll photographer Sam Seager. This was an amazing experience for her and it gave her a massive boost of confidence. On the 9th April 2009, The British High Commissioner to Malta, hosted a VIP reception in her magnificent residence, to celebrate Sophie’s official signing to f2f Music. Various influential personalities attended the reception. In May 2009 Sophie’s version of ‘The Clapping Song’ was doing amazingly well in Malta and the single took The Maltese Islands by storm. It hit the Malta radio charts and managed to spend a record 3 weeks at number 1 on ‘The Malta People’s Music Chart’. This brought a wave of appearances by Sophie on Radio and TV. All of Malta was talking about was Sophie and she was invited to be the Special Guest star and perform at the ‘Hannah Montana Movie Premiere’. Sophie also guest starred earlier this year at The Diet Coke Malta Fashion Awards, performing live in front of 5000 fans and an estimated TV audience of 1.5 billion people, and at the Melita Malta Football Awards. Her fan base continued to grow and her web site www.totallysophie.com increased its visitors by 70% to reach 47,000 hits per day. On the 8th June 2009 ‘The Clapping Song’ was released in the UK and on mainland Europe. The result was is that it is currently being playlisted in the UK, Monaco, Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Asia. The single entered the European eXpat chart top 40 (www.expatchart.com) at number 9, and quickly climbed up to number 7 in its first week. The journey continued aboard what was now affectionately known as ‘The Sophie Train’. On 6th July she officially released her second single ‘K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid)’, a single co-written by Sophie and her producer, Elton Zarb. Within 2 weeks this single reached Number 1 in the Malta Charts. July was a busy month for Sophie as she starred at 2 major events in 1 weekend. The ‘Coca Cola Malta Music Festival’ and ‘The Farsons Great Beer Festival’. In both events The British Media were on Malta following her. In the meantime Sophie was invited to star and pay tribute to ‘The King of Pop’ Michael Jackson. XFM 100.2 selected the top 10 local Artists for this special event celebrating the life of a Music Legend and also his 51st Birthday, on the 29th August 2009. In September 2009 SOPHIE completed a short sell-out UK tour where she officially launched her International Career and shot her very first music video for ‘K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid)’. It was on the 21st September 2009 that her single was released in the UK and Mainland Europe bringing about positive reactions from International Music Industry insiders. JEFF SMITH, Head of Music at the UK's biggest and most widely listened to radio station,BBC RADIO 2 and the highly prestigious BBC 6 MUSIC says: "It's a well put together and very catchy commercial pop song". The UK's The Daily Star called it, "a massive portion of 90s pop topped with glitter sprinklings!" Sal Amato from 1Club.fm said, "It reminds me of The Ting Tings - only much better!" ‘K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid)’ was now playing on high rotation in The U.S.A, The Caribbean, Europe, The Middle East, Asia and Australia entering the Top 20 charts in several countries. By now leading International media started to take note with Bliss Magazine leading the way with a double page feature in their October 2009. ‘The Sophie Train Journey’ steamed ahead and more excitement arrived for the teenage Pop Princess. She was invited to guest star at the prestigious Coca Cola Malta Music Awards 2009 on the 5th December 2009. She was also thrilled to find out that she would be officially welcoming ‘Bee Gee’ music legend ‘Robin Gibb’ to Malta as he steps off the plane. ‘Robin Gibb’ is in Malta to receive ‘The Lifetime Achievement Award’ for music legends ‘The Bee Gees’. This invite brought about further recognition for Sophie and Malta’s leading Dance Choreographer Felix Busuttil joined Sophie to co choreograph her new single ‘Give it up!’. More news about this single will be published soon. Sophie is very generously sponsored by the Island Hotels Group and Air Malta.