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Sophie Hunger (Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti) was born on 31 March, 1983 in Bern, Switzerland, is a Sophie Hunger is singer songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist. Discover Sophie Hunger's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 40 years old?
| Popular As |
Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti |
| Occupation |
Singer-songwriter, film composer |
| Age |
40 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Aries |
| Born |
31 March, 1983 |
| Birthday |
31 March |
| Birthplace |
Bern, Switzerland |
| Nationality |
Switzerland
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She is a member of famous Singer-songwriter with the age 40 years old group.
Sophie Hunger Height, Weight & Measurements
At 40 years old, Sophie Hunger height not available right now. We will update Sophie Hunger's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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| Hair Color |
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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| Parents |
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| Husband |
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| Sibling |
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Sophie Hunger Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Sophie Hunger worth at the age of 40 years old? Sophie Hunger’s income source is mostly from being a successful Singer-songwriter. She is from Switzerland. We have estimated Sophie Hunger's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
| House |
Not Available |
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| Source of Income |
Singer-songwriter |
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Sophie Hunger (born Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti on 31 March 1983) is a Swiss singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, blues harp, piano) and bandleader, currently living in Berlin.
Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti was born on 31 March 1983 in Bern, Switzerland.
She was a diplomat's daughter and grew up, with two older siblings, in Bern, London, Bonn and Zurich.
1983, her third album after Sketches At Sea and Monday's Ghost, released in early 2010.
This album was described as being a further development of her own mix of genres exhibited on the previous two albums.
The CD contained tracks from 1983 and Monday's Ghost.
She graduated high-school in 2002, then subsequently studied German and English.
While a child, Hunger took piano lessons for a time.
She was familiar with jazz from an early age, since her father used to listen to it.
Independently, she had a varying taste in music; as a teenager, she first was into hip-hop and R&B.
Later she listened to rock – then, as a young adult, she discovered country, bluegrass and folk.
From 2002 to 2006, Hunger was a guest singer for the project Superterz and appears on the 2006 album Standards released by that group.
Starting in 2004, Hunger was the lead singer of the indie rock group Fisher.
In 2006, in a few days, she home-recorded her solo début album, Sketches on Sea.
Hunger plays guitar, blues harp, piano and composes most of her songs in English, French, Swiss German, German and Swiss Italian.
On 6 July 2008, Hunger and her band gave a concert in the Miles Davis Hall at the Montreux Jazz Festival, as well as Yael Naim and Camille.
In July 2009, Hunger and her band closed out day 2 of TEDGlobal.
In June 2010, Sophie Hunger and her band played the John Peel stage at Glastonbury Festival.
Sophie Hunger was the first Swiss artist that has ever played there.
In July 2010 she played at the 100 Club, London, in October 2010 at The Roundhouse, London.
Later that year, it was announced that Sophie Hunger would release a début record for the North American market as Sophie Hunger: s/t on Manimal Vinyl in April 2011.
In 2011, her version of Noir Désir's "Le vent nous portera", which first appeared on 1983, was featured in the film Café de Flore, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.
In 2012, Hunger released her fourth Album, The Danger Of Light, which has been described to be influenced by jazz, or as changing between the genres folk, rock, pop and chansons.
The song was included in a deluxe version of the 2012 German number-one album Hallo Welt!, in which Sophie also contributed vocals and lyrics to the song "Berlin - Tel Aviv".
She participated in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2013 as a featured artist on the song "Fremde" with rapper Max Herre.
Representing the German state of Baden-Württemberg, they finished in eighth place with a total of 51 points.
Supermoon, her fifth album, has been released in 2015.
This album was described as alluding to the jazz roots from Hunger's first few albums, while mixing musical genres on every track.
In 2017 she made an appearance on the single "Song of I", a track from Steven Wilson's To the Bone.
On August 31, 2018, Molecules, Hunger's sixth album, was released.
This album, being produced by Dan Carey, makes heavy use of synthesizers and other electronic instruments, and was described as a "fresh new start".
Continuing the cooperation with Carey, Hunger released her latest album, Halluzinationen (Hallucinations), in 2020.
Having been recorded in two days at Abbey Road Studios, it was described as being "more versatile" than preceding works.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sophie Hunger and fellow Swiss artists Faber and Dino Brandão formed Brandão Faber Hunger, a supergroup to release a single album, Ich liebe Dich (I love You) in December 2020.
It is an album of love songs exclusively sung in Swiss German.
