It achieved airplay success in several European countries as well as Australia, peaking at number three on the Danish music charts, and was included on her debut EP Not Sokute (2007).

Her debut studio album I Thought I Was an Alien was released in 2012 and contains the single "We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow", which achieved ninth place on the Billboard Hot 100.

She later appeared in the short film First Kiss (2014), which featured "We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow" and contributed to the song's chart success.

Stéphanie Alexandra Mina Sokolinski was born on 26 October 1985 in Bordeaux, France to a Russian-Polish father and a French-Italian mother.

She says that, as a result, she became "obsessed with death"[6] and developed abandonment issues[7] that were exacerbated by the fact that her single mother "wasn't emotionally available".

[9] She left Bordeaux for Paris at the age of 16 to become an actress and began writing songs while taking acting classes[10] at Cours Eva Saint-Paul;[1] she says she "picked up songwriting" when she was 20 and taught herself how to play guitar, bass, and drums shortly afterwards.

[9] In 2007, Soko achieved a hit single in Denmark with a personal anecdotal song, "I'll Kill Her", after the radio program The Black Boy Scouts began to promote it.

As a live performer, the singer acts unpredictably and never uses a set list; her backing band consists mostly of different friend-musicians at each show.

In 2011, she wrote a song and featured in the animated short film Mourir Auprès De Toi, which was co-written and directed by Spike Jonze.

[14][15] In March 2014, Soko appeared in the music video for the song "Jealous" by Canadian electro-funk band Chromeo.

The Sonic Seducer wrote that the album was darker than the previous releases and called it a "female version of early The Cure discs".

[17] Soko collaborated with The Brian Jonestown Massacre on a song called "Philadelphie Story" for their album Musique de Film Imaginé, released in April 2015.

[19] In February 2010, Soko was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her role in À l'origine (English title In the Beginning), directed by Xavier Giannoli.

In 2015, she described her own work as "dreamy, punky, new wavey, raw, vital, emotional, very personal lyrics, sad but happy".

[9] Her debut album I Thought I Was an Alien was described as "woozy lo-fi alt-pop" influenced by the works of Leonard Cohen and Daniel Johnston,[23] and was noted for its "demo-like rawness".

[10][26] Her lyrics were characterised as "biting"[5] and "poetic yet immediately relatable",[10] while her "husky alto"[27] voice has been described as "throaty, confessional"[10] and "girlishly high-pitch[ed]" with a "raspy edge".

She explained that it made her realise what a dead body was and she "didn't want to eat anyone's mom or dad or any living creatures".

[7] She later transitioned to veganism, which influences her choice of film roles; she said that she would never shoot a scene where she has to eat meat "even if you paid me a million dollars".