Scottish musician and model (born 1993)
Simone Murphy
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Born
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1993-07-29
)
29 July 1993
(age 30)
Edinburgh
, Scotland
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Occupation(s)
| Musician and former model
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Years active
| 2016?present
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Musical artist
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 moving to
London
, she was scouted while working at
Harvey Nichols
, and later applied for
Cycle 11
of
Britain's Next Top Model
, on which she placed fifth. 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
" and several original compositions under the name
Sim0ne
.
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
. Her father was a photographer, and her first modelling job was with
The Scotsman
fashion magazine aged two.
[2]
As a teenager, she modelled for local clothing brands.
[3]
She read Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh,
[4]
during which time she worked as an events manager
[2]
and ran club nights,
[3]
and spent time on the door of Fly Club
[5]
and helped set up Fly Festival.
[3]
Her first job in the fashion industry was a job in
Hollister Co.
aged nineteen, which she walked out of after three weeks.
[6]
After graduating in 2014, she moved to London, and took a post on the third floor of
Harvey Nichols
, at which she was scouted as a model
[2]
aged 21;
[3]
she later worked in the hospitality and events industry.
[2]
In 2016, she used a spare hour to apply for the eleventh cycle of
Lifetime
's
Britain's Next Top Model,
a local derivative of the American series
America's Next Top Model
.
[2]
At the time, she was signed to an agency in
Manchester
, having moved to them from an agency in
Glasgow
, on the grounds that Manchester was a bigger city, and that more work was available down there.
[6]
Her participation was announced in early 2017, at which point she had spent the previous three summers working in
Ibiza
.
[7]
The only Scot in the lineup,
[2]
Murphy left the competition during episode eight after ending up in the bottom two,
[8]
ultimately finishing in fifth place.
[9]
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
.
[10]
She later modelled for
Karl Lagerfeld
and appeared in music videos by
The 1975
.
[3]
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.
[6]
During the pandemic, modelling work dried up,
[3]
and Murphy realised that she wanted to make music,
[11]
so spent lockdown teaching herself;
[3]
she also came out to her followers as bisexual during this time,
[12]
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.
[5]
In 2022, after being scouted via her TikTok,
[6]
she presented PGTV, a music show jointly produced by Pure Groove, an independent music shop in London, and Locked On Recordings, a record label;
[13]
around this time, she played a set at
Snowbombing
in
Austria
.
[14]
Her first release was a remix of Lana Del Rey's "Say Yes to Heaven", which aired on
SoundCloud
in 2023, and premiered at HOR Berlin. Around this time, she began a residency at
Rinse FM
,
[15]
and that autumn, she launched Club Zer0, a club night.
[5]
After being named
BBC Radio 1
's Future Star of 2024,
[16]
she released "Halo", a collaboration with Remedy Club,
[5]
and then later that year she released "Work It", a combination of
techno
and
trance
.
[9]
Personal life and artistry
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Murphy is
dyslexic
[8]
and has
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
.
[6]
She lived in
Camden Town
as of July 2022
[update]
.
[14]
She spent time on
Hinge
in 2022 after a long dating pause after dating people in the modelling industry.
[17]
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".
[11]
In March 2017,
The Scotsman
reported that Murphy had described herself as being influenced by the
flower power
movement.
[7]
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.
[3]
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".
[14]
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
".
[3]
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;
[5]
AGZ of Guettapen wrote in January 2024 that her sets were inspired by
hyperpop
, hard house, and trance,
[18]
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".
[19]
References
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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"
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16 April
2024
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. Retrieved
16 April
2024
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"I Love Models: Why so many fashion models are becoming DJs"
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Mixmag
. Retrieved
16 April
2024
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The Dots
. Retrieved
16 April
2024
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Gokcemen, Yazzi (9 February 2024).
"sim0ne is Mixing Music for Hedonistic Nights Out"
.
Notion
. Retrieved
16 April
2024
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e
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2024
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b
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2024
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2024
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Wallace, Megan (26 April 2023).
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. Retrieved
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2024
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"Finding pride in our style"
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. Retrieved
16 April
2024
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'There's a huge gap for more music TV programming, especially for upcoming artists'
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2024
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"Scottish DJ Sim0ne selected for First On SoundCloud: 'This platform is crucial to emerging artists'
"
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www.musicweek.com
. Retrieved
16 April
2024
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"BBC Radio 1 - Radio 1's Future Dance with Sarah Story, Radio 1 Dance's Future Stars 2024: sim0ne"
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2024
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Wallace, Megan (4 October 2022).
"Matching With Celebrities on Dating Apps Is Awkward As Hell"
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2024
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AGZ (7 January 2024).
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Guettapen
(in French)
. Retrieved
16 April
2024
.
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"Sim0ne @ Thekla review: A night of mainstream pop and club classics | Skiddle"
.
Skiddle.com
. Retrieved
16 April
2024
.