Sophie's the blonde beauty from Queensland who was training to be an opera singer before being derailed from her classical path by a stint as a Marilyn Monroe impersonator and a growing passion for pop music.
Her climb to pop stardom started in earnest in 1999 when she drove all night to make it to an audition for the first ever Australian series of Popstars. It's now a matter of Australian pop history that she made the final cut and went on to release a string of gold and platinum-selling singles with five fellow reality-TV graduates who were, by then, called Bardot.
The group's self-titled debut album racked up multi-platinum sales and won the girls fans in Australia, NZ and throughout Asia. The follow-up, Play It Like That, rebirthed the group as a tight four-piece and continued their assault on the charts with hit singles including ASAP and I Need Somebody.
The group made the amicable decision to disband in early 2002, but instead of kicking-back and taking a breather or exploring her options Sophie immediately threw herself into forging her own distinctively up-beat pop path.
What was there to think about? This is a girl who knew what she wanted to do long before she had the chance to do it.
As an ambitious 15-year-old she wrote in her diary that she wanted to have a hit album and single out by the year 2000. With that well and truly achieved (the first Bardot single, Poison, debuted at #1 in 2000 as did the album) it was time for the next challenge.
The Solo Career
Just a matter of months after the break-up Sophie simultaneously launched her first solo single, the pretty pop hit Inside Outside, and a modelling career (as the face Expozay swimwear).
Since then she's released the hot follow-up track, Get The Music On, filmed her first major acting role, as Marilyn Monroe in a big-budget US television mini-series, and knocked back the chance to host a weekly TV show.
"That one wasn't really me at all," she confides. "I'm trying so many things, but to take me away from the music, even part-time, it would have to be just the right thing. Especially at a time when I've got my first album to think about."
Sophie's debut album is Calendar Girl, a powerful one-two sonic punch of pretty pop and sophisticated, timeless grooves. Recorded in Sydney, Melbourne, London and Miami it is an appropriately titled 10-track collection, which provides both a soundtrack to those happy freewheeling days as well as an upbeat pop-tastic antidote to the most resistant case of the blues. It is a happy pop staple, perfect for any day, of any week of any month