| Sophie Rimheden

Sophie Rimheden started to make songs before she started school. At her home, in south of Sweden (a village called Bjärnum, close to Hässleholm), she sat by an electric organ where she could have beats to the chords she was playing. The family had to stand in line to get to the organ. Her parents have always encouraged her and her older brother (Andreas Rimheden) to put a lot of time in music. When she started school, she learned to play the guitar and played chords to the sad songs she made. Her brother made music on an Atari and a synthesizer, and Sophie sat next to him and learned. When she was about 13 years old she bought herself an Atari, and a couple of years later her own cheep synthesizer. Now she had a whole band with bass, drums and strings. For a while Sophie played with a guy who had good studio equipment, but she has always loved being on her own. She bought the two synthesizers that she still own, and started the band Hayce (released an album called Underneath the Floor, 1999, Memento Materia).

In 2001 she started Ban Ham which is electronica built on acoustic instruments that she and sometimes her dad played, and a few months later she started the Sophie Rimheden project. She participated on a Mille Plateaux compilation called Electric Ladyland (2001), with the song Don't Follow. Summer 2003 she released the debut album Hi-Fi under her own name on the Mitek label. On this album she tried for the first time to make more happy songs, mixed with a lot of noise.

In summer 2004 she released her second album, Miss, which contains 20 tracks. 10 longer tracks with vocals, and 10 short tracks with sounds recorded in a forest in the south of Sweden. She also works with the producer Håkan Lidbo, and has released an EP with him 2004 that contains a cover of the Tears For Fears song Shout.