The first appearance by Soko on French TV as a singer was on C à vous in February.
The blog, OUR SO CALLED VEGAN LIFE, is "2 vegan musician friends, Aska & Soko, sharing vegan tips and insights from all over the world!". This is ASKA:
The album is available on iTunes in the US for $10.99, and on Amazon as an MP3 download for $9.49. It can be streamed at stereogum.com. (iTunes has a 16th track, FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT.) The track FIRST LOVE NEVER DIE, was released as a single with accompanying video on 30 January, only in Europe.
CD and vinyl releases (Amazon):
FRANCE (€14,41) vinyl or CD (the vinyl includes the CD)
UK - (£14.94 - vinyl £7.99 CD)
US - (import CD $25.60 - vinyl $29.45)
CANADA - (import CD $26.90 - vinyl $33.88)
GERMANY - (CD €12,99 - vinyl €15.99)
"Soko Not Sokute" was released in 2008. It contained five tracks.

Soko sings on the first track of the new GOSPEL MUSIC EP DUETTES. The track is called I MISS THE SHIT OUT OF YOU. Gospel Music is really Owen Holmes and the EP consists of him doing duets with other artists. The EP is available from iTunes for $3.99 in the US.

Soko sings on the track SANDY, SANDY of the NOUVELLE VAGUE album "Couleurs sur Paris" which was released 15 November. The album is not available on iTunes in the US. Nouvelle Vague is a French music collective that transposes classic songs and obscure new wave material, giving it a decidedly modern sound. Among the members of the collective are: Camille Dalmais, Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain, Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux.
Soko got together with Stella Mozgawa (of Warpaint) to record a cover of "We've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" from the musical OLIVER. Soko and Stella called themselves MachiNette. The song is embedded a short distance below.
You Got To Pick a Pocket or Two by MachiNette
"her voice is like a little french puppy that bred with an angel of some sort covered in powdered
sugar."
-- Marie Lopez (fan)
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Soko t-shirts are now available online. There are two of them. The UFO shirt is £15, and the glow-in-the-dark ALIEN shirt is £18. Shipping to the US is £5.90.
SoKo (born Stéphanie Sokolinski) is a French singer and actress. She was born in Bordeaux, France 26 October 1986 to a Polish family and was raised there along with four siblings. Her father died in 1991. She has been called SoKo as far back as she can remember. At the age of 16, she left Bordeaux and made the 600km journey north to Paris. After appearing in several French movies, she got her start as a singer after she asked the director if she could sing on screen. In 2007 and 2008 "I'll kill her" became a hit song in a number of countries, including Denmark, Austria and Belgium. She now resides in Los Angeles.
Soko Not Sokute, the EP she released in 2008, is no longer available for download from iTunes, or, apparently, anywhere else.
Of Soko's films, Amazon has Clara's Summer, and no others. Amazon.fr has more.
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"Soko...compellingly underplays an individual awkwardly caught between girlhood and womanhood by her physical traumas. She certainly confirms the promise that saw her nominated as 'Best Female Hope' at the 2006 Césars (for Xavier Giannoli's In the Beginning), holding her own against the avuncular, ever-observant slyness of the vastly more experienced Lindon, himself a four-time César nominee."

"The young Gloria and Frances are, above all, children of punk. The singer Soko, is great in her role as the teenaged Gloria. She perfectly embodies the sadness of a misunderstood kid who just wants to quietly listen to Motorhead. The scenes in the mental hospital are the most successful in terms of emotion and realism...each of these scenes sweat punk energy and passion for life. Personally, when leaving the cinema, I had a desire to drink Heineken while bellowing on the Parabellum."
"Never have I been involved in such an emotional musical event. SoKo cried sporadically throughout, [but] not floods of tears and tissues. She held it together and didn't once break down completely, but she was close to choking on more than a handful of occasions. It was just insane how in tune her performance was with the way my life is unfolding at the minute. Never have I been to a show which summed up my state of being so accurately."

"I write all the time, I needed to tell stories in a different way, so I started writing in a hyper-prosaic way, not at all organized and without structures. I really have no musical education, musicians with whom I work are pulling their hair because I am always changing tempos in the middle, and using other unconventional techniques. Making music was something I had to do. I never said 'I must force myself to make music,' it's just that I had no choice, I wrote all the time, I typed all night when I could not not sleep until I had written and recorded a finished song. At 8 o'clock in the morning, I could finally go to bed because the song was completed."
"Sokolinski's brutal honesty about failed relationships, being lonely, love that never developed and her pain over failing to make that love blossom is startling for someone so young. Rightfully this album should reach a wide audience and catapult her among the other up and coming young singer-songwriters."

"I was in Leipzig, Germany doing a movie and I just posted something on Facebook like "Hey, I'm going to be there tomorrow night. I don't know anyone over here, but would you guys want to come if I played a show? Find me somewhere and I'll be there". And they wrote, "Oh, you could play in that park, by the pond". I agreed, and I asked the director of the movie that I was doing if he wanted to come to see me play a few acoustic songs. When we got there, there were like three hundred people who had come over within only four or five hours. Everyone bought candles and blankets and tea and stuff. It was totally dark in this park. I was playing acoustic with no microphone or anything and it was just impossible. I asked people to raise their hands so I would go and play where there were the most raised hands and I would change location at each song. It was one of those really amazing shows and I played for two hours. I thought there were going to be about ten people there. It was the most beautiful thing ever."
Soko as a Viking. Emanuel of I'm From Barcelona as an Alien. - Debaser, Stokholm.
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"Soko's music is possessed with a genuinely impish other-worldliness that record companies would bottle,
if they could."
-- THE GUARDIAN
Soko has signed with the booking agency UP FRONT ARTISTS.
Amazon (US) has movie posters for two Soko films, DANS LES CORDES, and MES COPINES. Each is available unframed in either 11x17 or 27x40 format.
For the first time, this site had a visitor from Nuuk, Greenland.
Selma Brook was the actor playing Brigitte Rousselot in The Tudors. Brook co-starred with Soko in "Clara's Summer" in 2002.
Brazilian singer Marina Vello blogged about Soko (as Marina Gasolina):
"I feel music has been losing its soul, the horrbile process of 'un-arting' music. That's why girls like Soko makes the world a better place to live. Viva La Resistance!"
In Swahili, "soko" is a noun meaning "marketplace or trading center".
Soko is apparently a surprisingly common appellation. Though it is clear that Stéphanie Sokolinski is the most important Soko, here are 12 others:

Pourquoi j'en souffre tant
Et j'en perds la raison?
Ton nom pIése si lourd
Au fil des saisons.
J'essayais si souvent
De combattre l'ennuie
Procuré par l'absence
De ton corps dans mon lit,
Je disais haut et fort
Qu'on ne m'y reprendrait pas,
Que jamais plus l'amour
Ne me mènerait si bas.
J'ai souffert tant de fois
Et tant de fois encore,
J'y replongerais bien
Et je sais que j'ai tort,
Mais si l'envie me prends,
De m'égarer cent fois,
Me rappelant ta peau,
Ton odeur bien a toi,
Alors cent fois je cours
Et me raccroche a ca,
Ce souvenir si doux
Pour qu'on ne l'oublie pas.