Stéphanie Sokolinski, better known by her stage name Soko, is a French singer-songwriter, musician and actress. Sokolinski was born in Bordeaux, France from a Russian-Polish father and a French-Italian mother. She has used the nickname Soko as long as she can remember. Soko left home at 16, quit school and moved to Paris to start acting class with Eva Saint-Paul where she studied for one year; she then resumed her education at several different schools, but quickly became tired of it and dropped out. She later appeared in several French films and began to write songs.