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Simone Murphy

Simone Murphy (born 29 July 1993) is a Scottish musician and former model. Born in Edinburgh, she started modelling aged two, before setting up several events while at the University of Edinburgh; after being scouted while working at Harvey Nichols in Edinburgh aged 21, she applied for Cycle 11 of Britain's Next Top Model, on which she placed fifth. She later modelled for Karl Lagerfeld and appeared in music videos by The 1975. She diversified into DJing during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom and released a remix of Lana Del Rey's "Say Yes to Heaven" in 2023 under the name Sim0ne, followed by several original compositions in 2024. Her tracks have been described variously as house music, techno, and trance music.

Simone Murphy
Born (1993-07-29) 29 July 1993 (age 30)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation(s)Musician and former model
Years active2016–present

Life and career

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Early life and Britain's Next Top Model

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Murphy was born 29 July 1993[1] in Edinburgh, Scotland, and attended George Heriot's School.[2] Her mother was a stylist and owned a dress shop,[3]: 3:12  and her father was a photographer.[2] She was named after Nina Simone.[3]: 16:06  Murphy's first modelling job was with The Scotsman fashion magazine aged two.[2] As a teenager, she modelled for local clothing brands.[4] She read Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh,[5] during which time she worked as an events manager[2] and ran club nights.[4] She also spent time on the door of Fly Club[6] and helped set up Fly Festival.[4] Her first job in the fashion industry was a job in Hollister Co. aged nineteen, which she walked out of after three weeks.[7] After graduating in 2014, she worked in the hospitality and events industry, and took a post on the third floor of Harvey Nichols[2] in Edinburgh, at which she was scouted as a model aged 21.[3]: 3:12  Initially signed to an agency in Glasgow, she moved to an agency in Manchester on the grounds that Manchester was a bigger city, with more work available down there.[7]

In 2016, after another model from her agency appeared on Britain's Next Top Model and booked lots of jobs as a result,[3] she used a spare hour to apply for the series' eleventh cycle.[2] She got most of the way through filling out the form before deciding she could not be bothered to film a video for the application, only for the producers to email her back reminding her to do so.[7] Murphy's participation was announced in early 2017, at which point she had spent the previous three summers working in Ibiza.[8] The only Scottish contestant in the lineup,[2] Murphy left the competition during episode eight after ending up in the bottom two,[9] ultimately finishing in fifth place.[10] Later that year, she was nominated for PETA UK's hottest vegan, having adopted the lifestyle after being horrified by a social media clip exploring a chicken hatchery;[11] the contest was won by Mark Goodwin and Casey Rider.[12] She later modelled for Karl Lagerfeld and appeared in music videos by The 1975.[4]

Music and presenting

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Murphy spent the first four months of the pandemic in Bali, having moved there with a boyfriend just before lockdown, and having signed with an agency in Sydney with the intention of travelling. After returning to Scotland, she broke up with him via FaceTime, and after struggling in Scotland, she moved to London with a friend.[7] During the pandemic, modelling work dried up,[4] and Murphy realised that she wanted to make music,[13] so spent lockdown teaching herself;[4] she also came out to her followers as bisexual during this time,[14] and quit the modelling industry after finding success as a DJ. She told Yazzi Gokcemen of Notion in February 2024 that she was proud of being able to withdraw from the industry on her terms, due to the industry's practice of withdrawing from models.[6] In 2022, after being scouted via her TikTok,[7] she presented PGTV, a music show jointly produced by Pure Groove, an independent music shop in London, and Locked On Recordings, a record label;[15] around this time, she played a set at Snowbombing in Austria.[16]

Her first release was a remix of Lana Del Rey's "Say Yes to Heaven", which aired on SoundCloud in 2023, and premiered at HÖR Berlin. Around this time, she began a residency at Rinse FM.[17] That August, she performed a set as part of a day rave organised by Nia Archives for her single "Bad Gyalz", which comprised entirely female and genderqueer DJs.[18] She then launched Club Zer0, a club night.[6] At the end of that year, Andrew Ryce of Resident Advisor wrote that her SoundCloud bootleg version of Janet Jackson's "Empty" had converted "a lament for loneliness" into "a sweaty, almost athletic celebration of togetherness".[19] After being named BBC Radio 1's Future Star of 2024,[20] she released "Halo", a collaboration with Remedy Club,[6] and then later that year she released "Work It", a combination of techno and trance.[10] In June 2024, she released "Number One Lover", a track inspired by 1990s eurodance, which she produced in response to comments criticising her practice of dancing while DJing. The track was premiered at a nail pop up and karaoke session at Shoreditch's PickPic, in which punters would have their nails annotated with artwork containing a scannable NFC tag.[21]

Personal life and artistry

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Murphy is dyslexic[9] and has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.[7] She lived in Camden Town as of July 2022.[16] She spent time on Hinge in 2022 after a long dating pause after dating people in the modelling industry.[22] In April 2023, Megan Wallace of Planet Woo noted that she had over 120,000 followers in Instagram, with her social media content comprising humorous videos, modelling looks, and advocacy "on the pressing political issues of the day – from the injustices of Conservative party austerity, to the need to advocate for trans rights amid a context of increasingly overt hate and discrimination".[13]

In March 2017, The Scotsman reported that Murphy had described herself as being influenced by the flower power movement.[8] In April 2022, she told Mixmag that many of the DJs she looked up to were in both the music and fashion worlds, with Peggy Gou starting off in fashion and Virgil Abloh and Dimitri from Paris starting off by mixing for Chanel shows.[4] In July 2022, she told Gay Times that she was inspired to become a DJ by Peggy Gou and that she took inspiration from the fashion choices of Alexa Chung and from the way Jameela Jamil "uses her platform and her voice to speak up for what she believes is right".[16]

Writing in April 2022, Becky Buckle of Mixmag wrote that a normal day for Murphy involved "playing mixes of camp icons such as Kylie, Lady Gaga and Charli XCX while dressed head-to-toe in Fiorucci".[4] Yazzi Gokcemen used a February 2024 Notion interview to note that her sets "sprawl[ed] techno, hard house, trance and other pulse-raising genres", which Murphy explained as being made out of a desire to make punters move;[6] AGZ of Guettapen wrote in January 2024 that her sets were inspired by hyperpop, hard house, and trance,[23] while Laviea Thomas of Skiddle described a 2024 International Women's Day set at The Thekla in Bristol as a "concoction of mainstream pop hits, OG club classics and a whole lot of spontaneity".[24] In June 2024, Chiara Maculan of Bricks described her productions as "high energy blends of house, techno, trance, and even acid".[21]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
2017 Britain's Next Top Model Contestant Eleventh cycle, eight episodes
2022 PGTV Presenter

Discography

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Singles as lead artist
Title Year Ref.
"Say Yes to Heaven" (Sim0ne & Melo Nada Remix)
(Lana Del Rey) 		2023 [25]
"My Barn My Rules" (Sim0ne Remix)
(HorsegiirL) 		2023 [25]
"Halo"
(Remedy Club x Sim0ne) 		2024 [25]
"Work It"
(Sim0ne) 		2024 [25]
"Number One Lover"
(Sim0ne) 		2024 [25]

Music videos

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Simone Murphy's television credits with year of release, title(s) and role
Year Title Performer(s) Role
2018 "TooTimeTooTimeTooTime" The 1975 Herself
2018 "Love It If We Made It" The 1975 Herself

References

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  1. ^ Murphy, Simone. "my late 20s have been an absolute joy, full of love and exciting adventures i can't wait to continue in my next decade. roll on 30s/SATC era. ps. you could not pay me to relive my early 20s". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Edinburgh University graduate bids to be UK's Next Top Model". The Scotsman. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d "PODCAST: Navigating the Modelling Industry with Simone Murphy". Steady. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "I Love Models: Why so many fashion models are becoming DJs". Mixmag. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  5. ^ "Simone Murphy". The Dots. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e Gokcemen, Yazzi (9 February 2024). "sim0ne is Mixing Music for Hedonistic Nights Out". Notion. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Simone Murphy: FYP, ADHD & OAP, 29 June 2022, retrieved 16 April 2024
  8. ^ a b "Edinburgh girl to feature in Britain's Next Top Model". The Scotsman. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  9. ^ a b BNTM11 EP8 ELIMINATED GIRL. Retrieved 16 April 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
  10. ^ a b "The best new tracks, picked by our staff". The Face. 15 April 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  11. ^ "Bristol's Frankie Crossley a finalist in UK's hottest vegan competition". Bristol Post. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  12. ^ "Bexhill's Casey and Eastbourne's Mark are the UK's Hottest Vegans". Sussex Express. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  13. ^ a b Wallace, Megan (26 April 2023). "sim0ne: the rising dj and producer melding url and irl". Planet Woo. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  14. ^ "Finding pride in our style". Cosmopolitan. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  15. ^ "'There's a huge gap for more music TV programming, especially for upcoming artists'". The Independent Music Insider. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  16. ^ a b c Kheraj, Alim (29 July 2022). "How to bring your authentic self to festivals". GAY TIMES. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  17. ^ "Scottish DJ Sim0ne selected for First On SoundCloud: 'This platform is crucial to emerging artists'". www.musicweek.com. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  18. ^ Williams, Kyann-Sian (14 August 2023). "Nia Archives uplifts non-male DJs with 'Bad Gyalz' rave: "Sisterhood in dance spaces is so important"". NME. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  19. ^ "2023 in Review: What's Pop Got to Do With It? · Feature ⟋ RA". Resident Advisor. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  20. ^ "BBC Radio 1 - Radio 1's Future Dance with Sarah Story, Radio 1 Dance's Future Stars 2024: sim0ne". BBC. Retrieved 25 May 2024.
  21. ^ a b Maculan, Chiara (21 June 2024). "sim0ne launches her lovergirl era with new single 'number one lover' - BRICKS Magazine". bricksmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  22. ^ Wallace, Megan (4 October 2022). "Matching With Celebrities on Dating Apps Is Awkward As Hell". Vice. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  23. ^ AGZ (7 January 2024). "Focus : Les 15 artistes à suivre en 2024". Guettapen (in French). Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  24. ^ "Sim0ne @ Thekla review: A night of mainstream pop and club classics | Skiddle". Skiddle.com. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  25. ^ a b c d e "Sim0ne - Discography". Spotify. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
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