Soko

just released her first album and stars in two movies this spring

interview by CAROLINE GAIMARI
portrait by GIL LESAGE

 

CAROLINE GAIMARI — Where are you living now?
SOKO — My whole life is in storage. I just have a suitcase and my guitar, so I can live anywhere. I was living in LA for the last three years, doing music. But I’ve been back in France for a few months now, finishing my album, I Thought I Was An Alien, and starting the promotion for it. I’m living in Paris with my brother. We lived together in LA, too, and I helped him a lot with his music. I have been back to LA, though, to shoot a few videos with Matthew Gray Gubler. We directed one together for my single, “First Love Never Dies,” and I directed another one, which Matthew is in, too. We filmed them…