Sophie Hunger
Sophie Hunger
Sophie Hungeris a Swiss jazz pop singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalistand bandleader, living currently in Berlin...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth31 March 1983
CountrySwitzerland
With songs one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise. And in that world you can be more than you actually are.
accepting finished pleasure realised school suddenly took true
At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.
exist lied maybe music possibly quite
I lied a lot when I was a kid. Somehow, I still do this today, but maybe in another way - not quite as ridiculously clumsily as I used to. But still, I think making music has a lot to do with it. One invents something that one can't possibly be. With songs, one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise.
baby call connection constantly crying music myspace profile pushed reaction word wrote
I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic' in connection with bands. But what does that mean? A baby crying after being pushed out of its mother's womb, now that's what I'd call authentic.
bad intense love
I love such an intense lifestyle. I feel bad otherwise.
exist history home
Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.
music trivial
Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.
belong belongs beyond borders clear heard music occurred simply swiss
I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country.