Born as Sonia Clarke in North London England. Sonique’s life philosophy: Be the best or don’t bother. With her music career, she’s certainly put that theory into practice.
Her first records while still a teenager was «Let Me Hold You” which became an immediate club hit and entered the top 25 in the UK dance charts without any promotion.
Sonique wrote and recorded songs with Tim Simenon (Bomb The Bass). Then Mark Moore’s S’Express. It was after this project, Sonique decided to start a DJ Career, Singing and DJ-ing and being a woman was quite a sensation at the time.
Playing regular sets at clubs such as Cream & Gatecrasher and Manumission in Ibiza (where she was a resident DJ for two years), but also in Germany, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Australia, Italy and Norway – she now spins all over the world at club nights, festivals and private events.
Sonique enjoyed two club and dance music chart hits with “I Put a Spell on You” and “It Feels So Good” on Manifesto Records.
“Spell” was originally released in the UK in June 1998 and peaked at #36 in the official single charts while “It Feels So Good”, charted in December the same year, climbed up to #24. The track has grown to a mainstream hit in the US, breaking into the national Top 10, and gave her a UK chart-topper in May 2000.
In the US a club DJ in Tampa, Florida began spinning her song from an import 12″ before several other clubs in the US joined in. This led to explosive requests for the song at radio and retail, so Republic Records jumped in and signed Sonique right away. she finished her debut solo album “Hear my cry” in 2000, which spawned the next single release “Sky” – another excellent example of Sonique’s talent for writing crowd-pleasing anthems.
