Sofi Bonde
Sofi Bonde is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, actress.
Sofi was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, moving to Stockholm at the age of eight. She gravitated towards music early in her life, inspired by her father's interest in classical and dixie-land jazz piano.
At seventeen, Sofi left Stockholm to explore the world outside Sweden. She moved to Paris and began working on her first demo. While back in Sweden for a visit, a chance meeting with guitarist Micke Nord of Roxette at a party resulted in a record deal and her debut release with Independet Records (Bonniers). It contained the singles "Back in Your Arms", "Hey Boy" produced by Steve Mac, and "Little Things" which was number 1 on Swedish national radio P4 for three months summer of 2000.
In 2006, Sofi released Fighting Gravity on Subatomic Records. It features the songs "Fallout" and "Thing For You", which have appeared on the MTV show The Hills, USA's "Covert Affairs" and "The Vampire Diaries".
Her music has been heard on many television and movie releases including MTV's "The Hills", "The City", CW's "Melrose Place", and feature film "When In Rome" starring Kristen Bell.
Sofi is currently (summer 2012) in Stockholm working with the release of the debut album Heart Machine Service. First song "Get you" was made public June 2012.
Discography
- One (2001)
- All Up to Me EP (2005)
- Fighting Gravity (2006)
- Heart Bling (2010)
Placements
- All Up To Me - Princess Diaries MTV trailer (2008)
- Defense - The Hills (2009)
- Fallout - The Hills (2007), Vampire Diaries (2009)
- Heart Bling - When In Rome, Tough Love (2009), The Hills (2009), NBC’s The Chase, The Beautiful Life (2009)
- LA - Melrose Place (2009)
- Never Give Up – The City, The Hills, ABC’s promos for Secret Millionaire
- Nobody - The Hills (2009)
- Nothing's Wrong - The City (2009)
- Out Of Space – What Chilli Wants, The Hills (2008)
- Pick Me Up - The Hills (2009)
- Questions - The City (2009)
- Shade Of Grey – Fly Girls, The City(2009)
- See Through - More To Love (8/11 and 9/8/09), Legendary (2009), The City (2009)
- Slowly - Melrose Place (2009), The Hills (2008)
- Sweet Love Honey - Celebrity Circus (2008)
- Shadows - Paranormal State (2008)
- Thing for You - Newport Harbor (2008)
- Win Some Day - "Entourage" (12/2010), 90210 (2010)
Biography
So the story is…
Sofi Bonde recorded her first demo in Paris, returned home to Stockholm and got signed by Independent Records/Bonniers. The first single “Little things” was the most played song on Sweden’s largest radio channel P4 for three months in the summer of 2000. In 2001 her first album “One” was released. Legendary songwriter/producer Steve Mac (One Direction, Leona Lewis, Westlife, Il Divo) produced the tracks “Back in your arms” and “Hey boy”.
After the collaboration with Steve Mac Sofi scored a publishing deal in the UK and moved to London to continue developing as a songwriter. She travelled to New York on co-writing trips with American songwriters and immediately fell in love with The Big Apple. She moved in 2003 and was soon ready for the next step in her music career. In 2006, Sofi’s second album “Fighting Gravity” hit the counters.
The new songs got attention in LA and she was offered her own reality show on MTV. Sofi kindly said no. The songs still got played on TV shows such as The Hills, The City and Newport Harbor. Sofi kept placing song after song until she finally got her first American record deal with Atlantic Records.
Sofi continued to write with hitmakers such as Max Martin (Pink, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift), Toby Gadd (Fergie/Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce), Evan “Kidd” Bogart (Rihanna, Beyonce, Sean Kingston) and Greg Kurstin (Lilly Allen, Pink, The Shins, Kelly Clarkson). The songs contributed to the score of hit TV shows such as Entourage, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries, 90210, Melrose Place and also provided the end title song for the Hollywood movie “When in Rome”. Nevertheless, Sofi started missing home and family and decided to move back to Sweden.
Back in Stockholm, inspired by the Swedish electronic pop world, Sofi began writing songs with swedish producer and songwriter Kim Wennerström (Erik Hassle), whom she had collaborated with before while living in the US. Together they created the album “Heart Machine Service” which is now ready to air with a release scheduled for fall 2013.
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