The early death of her mother in 2004 from obesity complications could have added to Sophia's problems, but instead she used the event as a wake up call and decided to change her life.

Today, Sophia Marie is 50kg (110lbs) lighter and setting her new home of Sydney Australia on fire with her ballsy hard rock music.

Sophia Marie grew up in a musical family, playing flute and piccolo in school bands. She switched to playing bass guitar when her dentist made her wear braces but soon gave that up too when a jealous boyfriend objected. It was over a decade later before she picked up the bass again.

Completely self taught on the bass, once Sophia picked up the instrument again she found herself making up her own riffs and soon after, adding melodies and lyrics to her compositions. She then recruited a band, started performing gigs and a new rock star was born. Her new partner was so impressed by the quality of Sophia's music that he decided to sell his house and invest the money into making Sophia's debut album!

Sophia Marie's debut album "Twisted" pulls no punches. Describing herself as a cross between Madonna and Metallica, Sophia seamlessly blends soft and hard into an exotic mix of musical emotion. Unashamedly sexual in nature Sophia says she sees the hard rock music as a male stimulant to her powerful, soaring vocals, which she says, are a natural female reaction to good loving done right!

Sophia's music video for Voodoo from her album "Twisted"

The Twisted album is structured around the theme of love and loss, the songs carefully arranged to create a loose story or old style concept album. The power and intensity of the songs in the centre of the album suggest Sophia Marie has drawn on some personal experiences to create songs that should drive deep into the all but the coldest of harts. The cheeky and sometimes downright sinful content of the rest of the songs suggest her previous out of control lifestyle has not been entirely forgotten!

Evil

Malevolence

Sense Overload

Twisted