We were lucky to catch up with Sophie Grenier recently and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Sophie thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

In 2023, I won La Voix in Québec, an experience that completely changed my life. It gave me the opportunity to write and release my first album and truly begin my career as an artist. I’m endlessly grateful for that chapter.

But the most meaningful project I’ve ever worked on is actually the one unfolding right now.

In the summer of 2025, after my contract ended, I found myself back where I started, an independent, unsigned artist. It was both scary and incredibly freeing. For the first time in a while, every creative decision was entirely mine.

I had songs I’d written over the years that I knew I wanted to release someday. I was also writing new material that felt more honest and aligned with who I am now. Instead of waiting for the “right” team or the “right” moment, I decided to challenge myself: I would produce the entire project on my own.

Since the pandemic, I’d quietly been teaching myself music production, with the dream that one day I could fully create my own work from start to finish. Being unsigned gave me the space to finally do it.

All summer, alone in my room with my computer, I built this EP from the ground up, writing, producing, arranging, recording, editing. The first single came out on January 30, the second releases March 6, and the full EP arrives April 17, 2026.

This project means so much to me because it represents ownership of my sound, my growth, and my confidence. Winning La Voix opened the door to my career. But producing this EP entirely on my own feels like stepping into who I am as an artist.

It’s the first time I can truly say: this is me.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I started singing when I was 11 or 12 years old. If there was karaoke anywhere, I was the first one to sign up. At 13, it stopped being just something I loved and became something I knew I wanted to pursue seriously. I remember watching Grace VanderWaal on America’s Got Talent, she was around my age, singing an original song she had written herself, and that was the moment it clicked. I didn’t just want to sing other people’s songs. I wanted to write my own.

My parents enrolled me in lessons at Sing House Studios, which became a huge turning point for me. I learned technique, stage presence, and how to connect with an audience. I also started entering local competitions. I almost never won, but those experiences built resilience and helped me grow quickly. They taught me how to handle nerves, rejection, and pressure, which ended up being some of the most valuable lessons early on.

In 2022, I began writing seriously and collaborated with Kayla Diamond on my first EP, which was released in January 2023. Around that same time, I auditioned for La Voix. I made it to the Blind Auditions, all four chairs turned, and I went on to win the season. That experience launched my professional music career and gave me the opportunity to release my first full album.

Today, I work both as an independent recording artist and as a vocal coach. As an artist, I write and release original music and perform live. As a coach, I help young singers build strong technical foundations, confidence, songwriting, and artistic identity. Many of my students struggle not just with technique, but with self-belief, stage fright, comparison, perfectionism. Because I’ve lived through competitions, rejection, high-pressure performances, and now the industry itself, I’m able to guide them through both the artistic and emotional sides of performing.

What I’m most proud of isn’t just winning La Voix, although that was a huge milestone. I’m most proud of the resilience it took to get there, all the contests I didn’t win, the risks I took putting out original music, and the fact that I continue to grow independently as an artist and producer.

If there’s one thing I want people to know about me and my work, it’s that everything I do comes from authenticity. Whether I’m releasing music or coaching a student, the goal is the same: to help people feel something real, and to remind young artists that their voice matters.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

I think one of the biggest ways society can support artists is simply by showing up, especially for small and independent artists.

Go to their shows. Bring a friend. Stay for the whole set. Those rooms matter more than people realize. A packed stadium is incredible, but a small venue full of people who chose to be there is what keeps emerging artists going.

We live in a time where popularity, especially on social media, can feel like everything. But behind every post is a real person creating something vulnerable. Not everyone can afford to buy albums, merch, or tickets, and that’s okay. Supporting an artist doesn’t always have to cost money. Liking a post, leaving a comment, sharing a song, those small actions tell the algorithm the content is valuable and help it reach more people. That kind of support is powerful.

At the end of the day, artists don’t just need streams, they need community. And community is built when people show up, online and in real life.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

I started music because I was inspired by someone writing and performing her own songs. That moment made everything feel possible. So at the core of my creative journey is the desire to pass that feeling forward.

If one young girl watches me perform, produce, or release my own music and thinks, “Maybe I can do that too,” then I’ve done something meaningful.

Another big part of my mission is production. Music production is still a male-dominated space, and for a long time I didn’t even fully see it as something I could step into. Teaching myself to produce my own music has been empowering, and I think it’s important for young girls to see women behind the computer, not just behind the microphone.

Ultimately, I want my work to show that you don’t have to fit into one box. You can be the songwriter, the performer, the producer. You can take ownership of your voice, creatively and professionally.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/sophiemusicofficial
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophiemusicofficial/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sophiemusicofficial
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDJO5hfEp3TsfJpOFrMl-7g

Image Credits

Bertrand Exertier
Paul Ducharme