Sophie Belluka Sparks CHEEKY BABY
London, England, United Kingdom
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SOPHIE BELLUKA SPARKS
Sophie has worked her way and earned respect from fellow
DJ’s and musicians on the international music scene for the
last three years.
Born and raised in south of France, Sophie started her
creative spell at the age of 10. After gaining a place in the
French gymnastic team she went on to compete at
international level, she also worked as a model while
studying at university, and music production courses.
Sophie quickly made her move to London after having
graduated in France as she knew this would be The spot for
her to be flourishing as a music maker. Poetry and melodies
had merged, and she developed outstanding song writing
and composing skills. Sophie started collaborating with
talented and high profile artists in both acoustic, rock and
house music .
2005-2007 Encounter and collaboration with musician T
Paul with whom was created the song Lush in 2006,
performed by Stuart Love. Lush was voted song of the day
seven days in a row by Music Tech Magazine, and was
performed live at the Playboy party at the Cannes Film
Festival 2006 for Hugh Efner’s 80th birthday party, and again
for Ivana Trump’s party. Lush was also the epicenter of the
famous Lush remix contest, with 30 remixes from all over
the world, under the patronage of DJ Kid Crème, Robert
Owens and Jon Pearn (Bodyrox).
2006 Also saw the birth of the song Sunshine which
caught the attention of Chicago legend Robert Owens who
recorded it.
It was also the start of her radio show http://www.pushfm.com
Monday for the Sophie Belluka Sparks show for which Sophie
has produced some exclusive interviews among which:
Little Louie Vega, Danny Rampling, Mark Knight, Robert
Owens, Franckie Knuckles, Mark Moore (S Express), Jon Pearn
(bodyrox), Rob Mello, Sebastien Ingrosso, Sergio Flores,
Danny Marquez, to name but a few...
2007 Start of the collaboration with DJ Producer Legend
Nicky Holloway, with whom sophie is currently recording an
album of the remixes of her acoustic songs, Run the race,
Katarina, and Cheeky baby performed recently at the world
renowned club China White alongside universal recordings
, and at the Lost and Yard in Soho in duo with TV presenter
Julian Bennett (Queer eye for a straight guy, Richard and
Judy) for Human Hi charity & OK Magazine. The songs will
be released later on this year.
On the acoustic-Rock department, a new collaboration with
Denny Laine (WINGS) who made the armonic chords of a new
version of Sophie’s song “Take a chance” and “I don’t
forget”, performed on the guitar by talented blues guitarist
Laine Hines, Denny’s son, Sophie and Laine performed her
acoustic repertoire in some prestigious venues, while
recording the acoustic album.
2008 Nicky Holloway & Sophie are currently developing
highly sophisticated and edgy electro beats in studio.
2008 was also the rocketing start of Sophie’s solo Dj career ;
having been mixing in the Push fm studio twice a week for
the last two years, Sophie developed her style and her own
listeners with whom she meets with great pleasure when
she performs in clubs.
With her very distinctive sounds and vibes, Sophie plays
happy minimal techno house, she has been a Resident at the
Burlington club, played at Crystal, EGG, Base bar IBIZA,
Montecristo Paris, Divo, for Ruggy Ruggiero …
While playing at Crystal, Sophie was spotted by well
established clothes and jewellery designer for Dutchi Ethan
Mc Pherson ( Stylish Angels, Ragz to riches..) dressing up
Rogez Sanchez, and did a video clip with one of her
songs:”Take a chance” while modeling on a photo session at
Gurpal studio for stylish angels’ accessories.
2009- After the success of her set with Ruggi Ruggiero's
costume parties Sophie was proposed by Ruggi to become
the resident DJ of his costume parties.
2009 - has been a very good start and new collaboration with
dj producer DG LUX collaborating on tracks on his album
"Lost Forever" , doing a remix of "Dazed", and a video clip of
their track together shot during Sophie's set at EGG, which
will be projected and played by DG LUX and CARL COX
during their tour of the USA starting 6th of march and
ULTRA FESTIVAL during the WMC in miami .
2009 is also the start of a creation of a band with NICKY
HOLLOWAY who is making is big and awaited come back,
having worked for a year and a half in the studio as a team,
Sophie and Nicky are now recording and album together
and starting a band under the name of "CHEEKY BABY".
producing progressive music. already preparing to launch
a new track : "IT MOVES ME" getting ready .
"IT MOVES ME " will be lau
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