She started her recording career, as Sophie, in 1963, and appeared in Michel Boisrond's film Cherchez l'idole.
She released a succession of singles and EPs for Decca Records in France, as an exponent of the yé-yé style, arranged by either Eddie Vartan or Jacques Loussier.
She often recorded French language versions of American or British pop songs, including "Reviens vite et oublie" ("Be My Baby"), "Quand un air vous possède" ("When My Little Girl Is Smiling"), and "Je ne fais pas d'histoires" ("It's Not Unusual").
[1] She opened a restaurant, La maison de Sophie, in Uccle, Belgium, in the early 2000s.
In 2012, she was moved to Paris for an operation on a ruptured aneurysm, but died in hospital there, aged 68.