Sophie, Grammy-Nominated Avant-Pop Musician, Dies at 34 A.D. Amorosi, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Sophie Xeon, the Grammy-nominated producer-musician whose pioneering work combined sweet pop melodies with mechanical noises into a genre now known as hyper-pop, died in a climbing accident in Greece on Saturday. She was 34. “True to her spirituality she had climbed up to watch the full moon and accidentally slipped and fell,” a statement from her label announcing her death reads. “She will always be here with us.” More from Variety Equally inspired by pop music and the crushing industrial sounds of acts like Autechre, from the release of her first single, “Nothing More to Say,” in 2013, Sophie’s influence was quickly evident throughout the more adventurous realms of the pop world. Within two years she was working with Madonna on her meme-spawning song, “Bitch, I’m Madonna.”