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Sofia is a 23-year-old bossa singer in the Philippines. She graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in Medical Technology. She is now a licensed medical technologist.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''SOFIA: Bossa Latino Lite'' )〕 Sofia became the featured artist in a bossa-inspired album project of Ivory Records by accident. After graduating, she was on her way to Japan to pursue her research scholarship grant to study hematology when she was asked to help gather research materials for the project, since she was into bossa nova since she was in high school. Aside from helping out for the lyrics, CDs, and other research materials, she was also asked to submit a demo tape so that Ivory Records would know what bossa sounds like. Sofia submitted a demo tape of the song "Desafinado". The record company was impressed, and then she was tapped to be a session singer. Eventually she was chosen to be the featured artist for the album.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''A Beautiful Accident'' )〕 Her album, entitled ''Bossa Latino Lite'', debuted at No.11 at Tower Records’ Top 25 albums chart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''About Sofia'' )〕 Sofia's second album was released December 28, 2006, entitled ''In Love With Nova Bossa''. On April 1, 2007, her debut album ''Bossa Latino Lite'' reached the gold mark. The awarding took place on ''SOP'', a noontime television show in the Philippines. == Other information == Sofia's skills include singing, creative writing, painting, and drawing. Sofia also plays the guitar, a little of violin and percussions. Her influences in music include Cynthia Alexander, Wolfgang, Paulinho Da Viola, Tom Jobim, Paulinho Moska, Big Mountain, The Corrs, Pinikpikan, Bob Aves, and Eraserheads. Her interests are books, reading, writing music, photography, Japanese food, and learning new languages.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sofia (Filipino singer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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