{"id":32996,"date":"2020-05-07T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/?p=32996"},"modified":"2020-05-07T14:59:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:59:26","slug":"interview-sophia-st-helen-debut-album-none-the-wiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiofemme.com\/interview-sophia-st-helen-debut-album-none-the-wiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia St. Helen Explores Wisdom and Naivety on Debut Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sophia St. Helen’s musical career didn’t begin like your typical singer-songwriter. After studying vocal performance at The American College of Greece, she stayed in the country and worked as the house singer at a hotel, performing the occasional gig in Athens. While on the island of Hydra in 2014, she met producer Robby Baier, and they recorded the song \u201cLazy Summer\u201d \u2014 the first she recorded for her debut album, None The Wiser<\/em>, which came out May 1.<\/p>\n

St. Helen got back in touch with Baier while she was in the U.S., and they ended up recording the rest of the album last year in the Berkshires. With a voice reminiscent of Nora Jones, St. Helen’s sound is mellow and whimsical. Songs like “The Bay” use natural imagery to evoke a relaxed, blissful mood. Others, like “Comfort in Crying” and “What the Heart Wants,” deal more explicitly with love and heartbreak \u2014 but St. Helen says the deeper theme of the album is “wisdom and naivety.”<\/p>\n

“To be none the wiser is to not learn from one\u2019s mistakes, or to not be aware of what has happened,” she says. “In a way, I\u2019m poking fun at myself for remaining naive, even after analyzing and putting into music many situations I have faced in my life.”<\/p>\n