Sofi de la Torre

Canarian artist Sofi de la Torre, who crafts her own path in music, blends R&B grooves with chillwave textures alongside expansive pop choruses designed for dancefloors, resulting in what she calls "pop done right" in a rather bold self-assessment. On March 16, 1991, she came into the world and grew up in Las Palmas, located within Spain's Canary Islands—an autonomous region that sits nearer to Northwest Africa both in position and cultural ties. Her musical aptitude surfaced at fourteen after a school instructor praised a composition assigned as homework and provided her with a keyboard for personal use. From that point, she acquired piano skills independently while persisting in her songwriting endeavors. Upon completing her secondary education at eighteen, she traveled to Los Angeles intending to enroll in a music program, yet concluded that performance demands exceeded her capabilities, prompting a relocation to London for studies in media and communications. Music's pull persisted there, leading her to issue the self-released singles "Heartbeat" and "Faster" in a pop-rock style. An encounter with German filmmaker Felix Fuchssteiner followed, and his admiration for her work resulted in inclusions on the soundtrack for his movie Rubinrot, known in English as "Ruby Red," which adapts Kerstin Gier's young adult fantasy series; moreover, de la Torre performed onscreen as a vocalist. The German agency Oh My Sweet then took her under contract and handled marketing for her debut full-length Mine in 2013. Motivated by this initial traction, she resolved to embrace unadulterated pop aiming for wider success, unveiling the dancefloor-oriented "Vermillion" in 2014 as her fresh direction. This euphoric but wistful number generated immediate widespread attention across online music platforms. Subsequent releases included the EPs Give Up at 2, Mess, and That Isn't You, through which she refined a dreamy, intensified pop aesthetic that cultivated a loyal online audience. Collaboration with Finnish producer Jonas Karlsson in 2017 yielded the favorably received "London x Paris," after which he helmed production duties on her follow-up album Another? Not Me, I'm Done.