sophiemarie.b

Emerging in 2017 under the name Sophiemarie.B, the performer drew attention through personal songwriting paired with gentle, flowing melodies when she issued "Hey Little Girl," a track addressed to her younger self and centered on a childhood episode of domestic abuse. During her teenage years in San Diego, California, Sophie Marie Braunstein posted interpretations of material by Oh Wonder and Hailee Steinfeld, only to see her own "Hey Little Girl" achieve viral circulation that year. The song accumulated more than a million streams after first being lifted from a social media upload and falsely credited to an impostor, then again once Sophiemarie.B was correctly identified. Before 2017 ended she released live clips of additional originals, "And the Long Drive Home" and "Can't Decide," performing them while accompanying herself on piano or guitar. In 2018 she continued with interpretations of songs by Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, among others, while also unveiling her own "Too Far Gone." By the time she signed with Crowned Records/300 Entertainment in late 2018, she reportedly held hundreds of unreleased originals.