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Sophie Moleta is a New Zealand-Australian singer, songwriter, composer and teacher with an intimate singing style. She provides folk pop with piano-backed vocals and also covers other genres from dance and house music, electronic ambient to laid back jazz.
Moleta was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but had moved to Perth, Western Australia early 1970s. Her father, Vincent Bartolo Moleta (born 1939), was a writer, publisher and historian, who retired in 2000 and her mother, classical accompanist was Christine Oakley (1939–1989). From the age of four she received classical music lessons from her mother. Moleta's non-classical music career started with a local Perth punk band, the Brautigans as backup vocalist and drummer. Her early album, Trust, was issued in 1998 by BMG. She has subsequently had a musical career in France and United Kingdom. In the late 2000s she returned to New Zealand and then Australia.
Discography
Albums except as noted
Stoop Only to Love (1996)
Trust (1998) BMG
Dive (2000)
The Cowshed Session (2000)
Live in Lille (France) (October 2000) Sofa
"Love Has Come Again" by Human Movement featuring Sophie Moleta (2000) single
Les Jolies Choses (2001) (two tracks - film soundtrack & soundtrack album)
Temple (2001)
Grow in Love (2001)
Accept (2002)
My Style of Sensual (2003) Sofa
What Happened in Fremantle? (2004) (with David Härenstam)
Untie Me (2005) (with Holmes Ives)
Live at LaSalle (Singapore) (2005)
"Te-Atawhai" (3 track single) (2006) and separate video/DVD of the title track
"Awaken" (2006) original track from Untie Me in nine remix versions
Every Girl I Know Deserves a Packet of Stars (2007) (14 tracks + video)
plus various dance releases on vinyl
plus tracks on more than 25 CD compilations
plus numbers of collaborations on other releases
plus a growing number of remixes of her work
SatyaKadambiiMela-"Truth is"( 2012)
The birth of Love ep released on band camp October 2015
References
External links
Sophie Moleta Facebook
Sophie Moleta website Archived 16 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine