Sophie Villy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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singer-songwriter and composer from Georgia
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Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia
About Sophie Villy
- Sophie Villy (Georgian: ????????? Khutsishvili; born on 30 October 1990 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a singer-songwriter and composer, she performs internationally in both English and Georgian.
- Villy has composed soundtracks for feature films from Georgia, America, and France, one of which "Lost in Escapade" was selected for the Cannes Festival Short Film Palme d'Or competition in 2015 and won Best Original Music at Spain's Euro Film Festival.
- She has been reported by KEXP, KCRW in Los Angeles, BBC Radio 2 and London's The Guardian newspaper as a representative of Georgia's new wave in music.
- Periodicals in Kiev also document Villy's role within domestic songwriting.
- At a time of increasing nationalist tensions, her multilingual songs are debated by the Ukrainian and Georgian media as a protest of people who are tired of politics and aspire for peace in their country.
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