Sophie Auster

Sophie Auster (born July 6, 1987, Brooklyn, New York City) is a US-American actress and singer. She is the daughter of author and film director Paul Auster and authoress Siri Hustvedt.

At the age of eight, Sophie Auster began to take singing lessons. A year later she had already had a small part in a film; by the age of twelve she began acting lessons. As she expressed an interest in pursuing a music career when she was 16, her father made use of his connections by contacting Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp of the musical duo One Ring Zero.Paul Auster had contributed to their musical-literary project "As Smart As We Are"; he and her daughter are both shown on the corresponding prizewinning documentary film. It was decided then to produce a complete album together. Upon the advice of Paul Auster the selection of lyrics mainly consists, apart from own texts (two derive from Sophie, three out of Paul Auster's hands) and a traditional medieval English one, of poems from prominent French surrealists: Guillaume Apollinaire, Philippe Soupault, Tristan Tzara, Robert Desnos as well as Paul Éluard. Most of those lyrics had been translated into English already in Paul Auster's early years. Finally the resulting self-titled album "Sophie Auster" shows an interplay of her clear, well-trained voice and One Ring Zero's versatile orchestrated music.

In July 2006 Auster covered the Spanish issue of the Rolling Stone magazine. In 2008 she is working on her second album "Broken Down Cabaret".

Discography

* 2005: "Sophie Auster"

Filmography

* 1998: "Lulu on the Bridge" (by Paul Auster) – Sonia Kleinman
* 2005: "" (by Joe Pacheco) – herself
* 2007: "The Inner Life of Martin Frost" (by Paul Auster) – Anna James

External links

* [http://www.sophieauster.com Official Site]
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* [http://www.myspace.com/34806819 Sophie Auster at MySpace]