Vancouver artist and producer Sophia Stel has just announced her signing with A24 Music. The news arrives ahead of her upcoming headline tour, which kicks off on April 10, and includes 22 stops across North America and Europe (Book Tickets).
The announcement follows a banner year that saw Stel make her runway debut at Ann Demeulemeester’s Paris Fashion Week SS26 show, grace the cover of NME, and model spreads for Palace Skateboards and BASKETCASE following the release of her breakout EP, How to Win At Solitaire, and its accompanying deluxe edition, the latter of which features collaborations with Mura Masa, Tommy Genesis, and Cecile Believe. In addition to a performance at Pitchfork Festival in Paris, she was also recently selected for this year’s DAZED 100 and Pigeons & Planes’ 26 Artists To Watch In 2026 list, while earning spots on Best Of 2025 lists from The Face, Notion, Gorilla vs Bear, and Hearing Things.
How to Win At Solitaire was produced, written, and recorded by Stel in a makeshift basement studio at Vancouver’s since shuttered Paradise, the DIY club she worked in at the time. Released in September, it served as her second project following her 2024 debut EP, Object Permanence. The 2025 deluxe edition featured sleeper hit “I’ll Take It”, which rapidly caught fire on TikTok — and earned her co-signs from Troye Sivan and Megan Skiendiel of KATSEYE.
Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, she first cut her teeth within Vancouver’s local music scene, turning heads for her free-flowing prose, Y2K-indebted visuals, and mythos-tinted autobiography. Coupling lyricism inspired by her everyday life with patchwork aesthetics infused with the spontaneous, DIY ethos of homemade digicam videos, Stel has also been championed by PC Music legend A.G. Cook and was named in the NME 100 in 2025. She is currently working on her debut album.
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