Those courageous enough to deeply explore the architecture of the cosmos rattle foundations. These scientists, artists, humanitarians, and spiritual warriors challenge widely-accepted dictums, and find the little grey areas that laws of nature and conventional wisdom just can’t explain. These are the dark recesses Simonne Jones illuminates with her intrepid artistry.

Simonne’s story includes transformative journeys exploring health and culture in the jungles of Africa and Brazil; powerful moments conducting HIV research in state-of-the- art labs; being locked in Peaches’ studio among various dildos and synthesizers; and a career-catapulting project producing a German pop icon. Her Cherokee and Caribbean heritage only enriches her perspective. After migrating from LA to Berlin, she wove together the various threads of her life into an ethereally beautiful music lattice.

“I see music and science as opportunities to explore the mysteries of the universe. I have an unquenchable curiosity, and I believe big breakthroughs in these realms can change the world,” the Berlin-based artist says. She continues: “The limitless possibilities of our existence; the intersection of science and art; and our crazy potential as human kind propels me, and imbues all facets of my creativity.”

Simonne is a cosmically cerebral polymath. She is a solo artist, a scientific researcher, an adventurer, a model, a composer, a producer, a visual artist, a multi-instrumentalist, a lecture series speaker, an educator, and, since 2021, a Sneaker Pimp. She holds university degrees in visual arts and biomedical research, and minors in biological sciences and art history.

Simonne has been awarded a grant to travel to Africa to create a HIV awareness program. She furthered her work in this realm co-authoring research papers, and as an employee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute where she worked on a HIV cure. She explored music as spiritual ritual in the Amazon, and her journeys here are immortalized in Jean Michel Jarre’s documentary, Soundhunters. Simonne’s visual art has been exhibited in Florence, Italy and Manhattan, New York, and she has lectured at the “Blue Dot Festival” in Manchester and the “Make Sound Festival” in Leicester, revealing how the integration of science and art inform her artwork.

Her singular musicality embraces pop, indie-pop, synth-pop, baroque-pop, dream-pop, the avant-garde, classical, industrial, punk, and dark wave. Simonne is a self-contained artist who writes all the music and lyrics, plays all the instruments, and produces, engineers, and mixes all her tracks. Her compositions exhibit a haunting beauty with imaginative arrangements, daring electronic soundscapes, majestic hooks, sensually emotive vocals, and lyrics that brim with poetic poignancy and metaphorical enlightenment. Her fearless artistry recalls NIN, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Grimes, Bat for Lashes, Depeche Mode, and Florence and the Machine. Her long-awaited debut album essentializes a lifetime of songwriting, conceptualizing, and searching, distilling a 200-plus song body of work down into a tightly-cohesive album with a mesmerizing dark electro-pop aesthetic.

Simonne’s aesthetic is both rarefied and broadly resonant. She beat out 10,000 applicants to be accepted into the competitive Redbull Music Academy. She composed and performed as a soloist with the ORSO philharmonic orchestra and choir in Freiburg Germany. She scored and performed in a play at the prestigious Salzburg Festival, and she’s performed her classical compositions in China. Simonne also completed a six-month artist residency at Berlin’s art collective Platoon Kunsthalle. In addition to these milestone moments, her production sensibilities have been commemorated by Native Instruments with her signature virtual drum-kit plug-in, “Battery of Sounds.”

Simonne has studied music production since she was 14, and today she is a versatile and sought- after producer with an international profile. “The technical side and the artistic side are inseparable for me,” she says. She has co-produced and worked alongside Jimmy Harry (Madonna, Pink, Ra Ra Riot), Sneaker Pimp visionary and producer Liam Howe (Lana Del Rey, Marina and the Diamonds, FKA Twigs, Ellie Goulding), Sacha Skarbek (James Blunt, Lana Del Rey, Miley Cyrus, Adele), David Kosten (Bats For Lashes, Keane, Enter Shikari), and Grammy-winner Martin “Doc” McKinney (The Weeknd, Drake, Florence and The Machine). Recently, her producing career took a sharp upswing when she had a hit record for German pop artist, Rea Garvey, a superstar with 1.7 million monthly listens and over a 100 million cumulative streams.

Her evocative and sophisticated compositional sense, her sharp production skills, and her empathic nature have enabled to work in a bevy of contexts. Simonne has done theatre scores, sound designs, and music for operas. Co creating with Liam Howe led to her organically joining the rebooted Sneaker Pimps as the featured singer for the iconic group, and a remixer. “We worked in secret for years,” she divulges. “It’s been an honor to be invited into the fold.”

Simonne was born in Los Angeles, and, as early as three, was plunking out melodies on the piano. As a young child, her curiosity and steely determination drove her to scale disciplined heights. At aged 10, she taught herself to read music, and soon was performing stunning renditions of Beethoven and Mozart compositions. From piano mastery, she darted out in exploratory paths toward the guitar, percussion, bass, production, singing, songwriting, and the synthesizer.

Despite her prodigious musical talent, Simonne was medical school bound, dedicated to a life in biological research. At 16, she graduated high school after homeschooling herself. A year later, she was signed by the world-renowned Elite Modeling Agency. That same year she moved across the country and began her college career at the University of Maryland.

Two key events lured her from a career in medicine. The first took place during a research junket in Africa. While nestled in the bushes of the jungle away from computers and the din of everyday life, Simonne had an awakening that she could satisfy her quest for truth and desire to positively influence people through music. The second came from Peaches who, impressed with Simonne’s burgeoning talents, took her in as a protégé. “She locked me in her studio, and forced me to make noise and scream,” Simonne says, laughing.

Peaches instilled artistic autonomy in terms of Simonne being able to write her songs, perform most of the instrumental sections, and engineer and produce her recording sessions. Peaches was also pivotal in Simonne shifting from organic instrumentation to brazenly appropriating electronic instrumentation in her work. These experiences were indelibly impactful, and though Simonne was accepted to medical school, her heart was set on a career in music. She moved to bohemian Berlin to fulfill her destiny.

These days as a solo artist, an in-demand producer, and a Sneaker Pimp, Simonne remains fiercely committed to her foundation ideals of altruism, science as positive change, and the transformative power of the arts. In closing, she says: “The drive behind what I’m doing is that I want to inspire others to become aware of their potential—what they can do with their life. I have this extra fire inside for them.”