Sophie Moleta
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Sophie Moleta is a singer, songwriter, composer and teacher with an intimate singing style. She is best known for her piano backed vocals in what can be described as 'folk pop', but has a wide range of recorded music with dance and house music, electronic ambient, laid back jazz and other styles. The music is personal, generally sparse but always with seductive beautiful vocals.
Moleta was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but grew up in Perth, Western Australia. Her non-classical music career started with a local Perth punk band (The Brautigans) where she was backup vocalist and drummer. She has since had an extensive musical career in France, the UK, and has in recent years lived in New Zealand and now Australia.
[edit] Discography
Albums except as noted
- Stoop Only To Love (1996)
- Trust (1998)
- Dive (2000)
- The Cowshed Session (2000)
- Live in Lille (France) (2000)
- Love Has Come Again (2000) single (with Human Movement)
- Les Jolies Choses (2001) (two tracks - film soundtrack & soundtrack album)
- Temple (2001)
- Grow in Love (2001)
- Accept (2002)
- My Style of Sensual (2003)
- What Happened in Fremantle? (2004) (with David Harenstam)
- Untie Me (2005) (with Holmes Ives)
- Live at LaSalle (Singapore) (2005)
- Te-Atawhai (3 trk) single (2006) and separate video/DVD of the title track
- Awaken (2006) original track from "Untie Me" in nine remix versions
- Every Girl I Know Deserves a Packet of Stars (2007) (14 tracks + video)
- plus various dance releases on vinyl
- plus tracks on more than 25 CD compilations
- plus numbers of collaborations on other releases
- plus a growing number of remixes of her work
