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Sophie Hunger —
Swiss
Musician
born on March 31, 1983,
Sophie Hunger is a Swiss jazz pop singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, living currently in Berlin... (wikipedia)
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.
Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.
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.
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.
I love such an intense lifestyle. I feel bad otherwise.