MUMBAI: Sophie Choudry is a well known face in the entertainment world. She has been part of many music videos and has also sung many chartbusters herself. The gorgeous diva reveals that when she was just 2 days old her grandmother had a vision that she would be on the face of many album covers. And that is exactly what destiny planned for her.
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Speaking of her initial days of struggle in the industry, Sophie said, “To get myself out of the glam doll box, that was virtually impossible. I was told things like, ‘Don’t think na, don’t have a brain.” Sophie has manu chartbusters to her credit like “Ek Pardesi Mera Dil Le Gaya”, “Mera Babu Chhail Chabila”, “Zuby Zuby” and has also been part of films like David Dhawan’s Shaadi No 1, Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara among many others.
Sophie further revealed, “My grandmother had a dream two days after I was born. She told my mother, ‘Her face would be on record covers, ye singer banegi!‘ Everyone thought, ‘Sure.’ But strangely enough that’s what destiny had in store for me. I began as a backing vocalist at the age of 11 and here I am. Nothing was planned, my entire family is abroad, so to even move to India… I thought I would come here for a year and see how it goes.
Biddu (Appaiah, British-Indian musician who launched her) had an idea of putting together a British-Asian girl band, these exotic girls singing in English. This is when I was in college in the UK. We auditioned, put together a band and got our first record deal with Universal India. The first song I wrote for our band (Sansara) was Yeh Dil Sun Raha Hai. I was only 17! It did really well. We did one more song, but the band split up. I got a solo deal.”
Sophie also recalled that Shah Rukh Khan was the first celebrity she ever interviewed saying, “I used to do a show about music, which was very popular. And there were other people on the channel who would do these interviews but for some reason that day I was asked to interview Shah Rukh. That was one of my first interviews of my life! I went out to buy a new outfit and I was so excited! He was so nice, funny and sweet. When he met me here in Mumbai, he remembered and said, ‘Tu yaha aagayi? Achcha kiya!‘
Sophie revealed she has many friends in the industry but has never got much help in her career. She said, “People have always had this perception that, ‘Sophie ki toh puri industry ke saath dosti hai, woh sabklo jaanti hai.’ They must be thinking that everyone is out there helping me. But no one has ever helped, ever. I want to make it clear that you don’t get that much in the industry just through friendships. It is a business, people will work with you if they want to.
I am aware that I don’t want to cross over that line, these are my friends. Yes, if I want advice, I will always go to them. Varun has been the most active, during my last song ‘Gori Hai’, he was the first person I showed it to because I wanted him to launch it and he started asking what is my media plan, if I have shown this to Karan! So with ‘Lips’ I didn’t want to trouble too many people, but they have always been encouraging.”
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