Sophia Kennedy

Kennedy was born in Baltimore, Maryland[1] to a German father and American mother. She has three brothers. When she was five years old,[2] the family moved to a village in central Germany near Göttingen.[1] They continued to speak English at home but Kennedy quickly learned German in Kindergarten. She later moved to Hamburg to attend university.[3] Kennedy has said that music brings back her American roots commenting that “I always go there [to Baltimore] in my mind when I'm making music, not to the city in particular, but to the conflict of growing up far away as a kid... I can barely speak English properly anymore - but having that American accent in my voice when I sing, it's the feeling that that's the part of me that's still there.”[4]

Kennedy first studied filmmaking[5] and began her career making soundtracks for theatre and television before releasing her first album in 2017.[1] It was described in reviews as 'idiosyncratic' and 'like a Dr. Seuss book come to life, but in an even brighter Technicolor.[6][7] In 2021, she released "Monsters" the songs in which were described as having a unique and varied structure creating an effect which was "disarmingly disorientating and oddly relaxing."[8][9] She works with Mense Reents, also known as the "Klavierspieler der Goldenen Zitronen", who accompanies her performances on the stage.[10]