Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Sophia Stel got her start in the local Vancouver music scene, making waves with her free-flowing prose, Y2K-inspired visuals and mythos-shrouded autobiography. Combining lyrics inspired by her everyday life with a patchwork aesthetic informed by the spontaneous DIY ethos of old skate videos, Stel has quickly emerged as a voice at the forefront of a new, offline-centric artistic movement. Known for her offbeat, post-digital iconoclasm (she uses an LG flip phone and has a limited social media presence), she's already been endorsed by PC Music legend A.G. Cook and has also been praised by NME, who named her one of their 100 most important emerging artists for 2025.