The avant-garde pop producer and musician died. She was 34.
“It is with profound sadness that I have to inform you that musician and producer SOPHIE passed away this morning around 4am in Athens, where the artist had been living, following a sudden accident,” SOPHIE’s management began a statement to PEOPLE.
A statement from the Glasgow native’s family, which was shared by record labels Transgressive and Future Classic, revealed that, “True to her spirituality she had climbed up to watch the full moon and accidentally slipped and fell.”
SOPHIE released her debut single “Nothing More to Say” in 2013, and rose to prominence with her follow-up singles “Bipp” and “Lemonade.”
While she remained physically out of the spotlight in her early performances, remaining in a darkened DJ booth, SOPHIE began embracing costumes and wigs onstage after coming out as transgender while on tour in 2018, according to The New York Times.
The musician earned a Grammy nomination for best dance/electronic album for her critically-acclaimed 2018 debut album, Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides.
