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Screenshot<\/p>\nLONDON \u2013 In many ways, Sophie Feriani is like any other Northeastern University London undergraduate. The third-year law student lives in the city, attends classes at Devon House on the bank of the Thames, and likes to hang out in Soho with her fellow students. But she also is steadily amassing a community of fans through her music \u2013 an intoxicating blend of pop and R&B that\u2019s available on Spotify and Apple Music.<\/p>\n
Feriani, who already has nine singles on Spotify and 20,000 followers on TikTok, is a burgeoning singer-songwriter with silvery vocals and a knack for a catchy hook. She recorded her debut single, \u201cGuilty\u201d, at home in 2023 when she was still in high school, but has since worked in professional London studios, including Tile Yard and Soho Sonic. In fact, she\u2019s been recording consistently during her degree at NU London and plays gigs around the city. So how has she managed her time so successfully?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m quite an organised person, hence why I\u2019m able to do all of this,\u201d she told Northeastern Global News in an interview on Northeastern\u2019s London campus. \u201cThe way I approach uni is very different to my friends: I look at everything before we start classes and then I work on my assignments immediately, even if they\u2019re due in a few months. I just finish them all within the first month or two \u2013 that way the rest of the semester I can just focus on music.\u201d<\/p>\n
David Nash, a music consultant for Simons Rodkin Solicitors in London, said there is \u201ca growing number of individuals combining parallel careers in law, whilst developing their music career\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He told NGN that it\u2019s often a case that they are studying something completely different in law \u2013 such as civil law, conveyancing \u2013 and their music \u2018career\u2019 is something that they have had a continued love for, from their youth.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that he has \u201cworked with hundreds, maybe thousands of clients\u201d who wrongly believe that having a successful career in another line of work means they will be able to make their way in the music industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\nNortheastern law student Sophie Feriani, who turns 21 this month, has already released nine singles. Courtesy Photos<\/p>\n
He said that he had witnessed first hand, a successful client \u201cbelieves 100% that if they simply throw a heap of money at a project, they can turn it into a success,\u201d but \u201cit never works for them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Feriani, who turns 21 this month, is a London native. She was born and raised in Paddington to parents from Tunisia \u2013 although she did spend some of her teenage years in the North African country.<\/p>\n
Her early musical idols included giants of the pop world like Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson and One Direction. She now also counts Sabrina Carpenter, Dua Lipa and Tate McRae among her key influences, because they all have \u201ctheir own distinct image that sets them apart from other artists,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Feriani\u2019s musical odyssey can be traced back to when she was four years old and her parents enrolled her in piano lessons, which she \u201cdreaded back then\u201d but now is grateful for, she acknowledged. She loved singing solos at school recitals and eventually began uploading videos of herself performing covers to Instagram and TikTok.<\/p>\n
As she approached the end of high school, she began writing her own material and reaching out to London producers \u2013 all while trying to decide what she would study at university. Despite her love for music, she never wanted to take a course in it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never felt like music was a career you had to study in order to be successful at, whereas if you want to become a doctor or lawyer you would need to have your degree,\u201d she said<\/p>\n
She knew she didn\u2019t have a head for mathematics and she wasn\u2019t interested in other STEM subjects, including science, technology and engineering. After doing an internship on the legal team at Polydor, a British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group, she had a light bulb moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was like, \u2018Wait, I can combine the legal world and the music world!\u2019 I thought, \u2018OK this is perfect, I\u2019m going to apply [to study] law,\u2019\u201d Feriani said.<\/p>\n
Dr Lisa Collingwood, associate professor of law at Northeastern University London, taught several of Feriani\u2019s classes last year and is looking forward to teaching her again next semester.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has always been well-prepared for teaching sessions so she\u2019s certainly managing to juggle her musical aspirations with her legal ones, which is super impressive,\u201d Collingwood said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe I have taught any burgeoning singer-songwriters before and I do think that what Sophie is doing allows for considerable benefit in bringing these two creative fields together,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The budding artist was attracted to Northeastern University London as it offered her the opportunity to study for a year in Boston. Ultimately, she opted to stay in London for all three years of her degree and is due to graduate next summer \u2013 at which point she\u2019s keeping her options open as to what to do next. But the U.S. could be calling, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe dream would be to pursue music and be able to financially live off it and to be going on tour,\u201d Feriani said. \u201cI\u2019m applying to masters [programs] in America because that would give me the opportunity to be in LA or New York for music whilst also working in law academically.\u201d<\/p>\n
Feriani recently recorded her tenth single, \u201cThe Middle\u201d, which should be released before 2027. She describes it as an up-tempo song influenced by 2016\/17 pop, with lyrics about \u201cfeeling uncertain in a relationship and not understanding where you and the other individual stand,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s practically about feeling in the middle, not almost there, but also not too far away either.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking forward, Feriani wants to do an album of fresh material \u2013 containing all new unreleased songs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve discovered the exact sound and route I want to go down in order to accumulate a strong album that I would be proud of,\u201d she said. \u201cMost of the songs I am releasing at the moment I made when I was in high school so there\u2019s a difference to what I am making right now \u2013 you can certainly see the evolution in comparison. But I still feel like it\u2019s important to share the music that has helped shape me and [get me to] where I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Feriani\u2019s friend Kaylee Burkett, a third year politics student at NU London, called her mate \u201cthe ultimate go-getter who is \u201ccommitted to making her dreams happen\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never met someone who is combining study and music like her before,\u201d Burkett said. \u201cAt Northeastern, and especially as a law student, she has a rigorous courseload, extracurricular demands, and student involvements to juggle. That\u2019s a lot for anyone, and managing that on top of her pursuit of music is insane. She always jokes that she\u2019s a full-time musician and a part-time uni student, but she truly doesn\u2019t give herself enough credit for fully throwing herself into both.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Feriani, throwing herself into music doesn\u2019t mean distracting other students. Devon House, Northeastern University London\u2019s main building, has a music corner with assorted instruments, but Feriani has never spent much time there showing off her skills to the other students.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s probably no need for me to be sitting there making music when people are trying to walk to classes,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s more irritating than anything else!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2013 In many ways, Sophie Feriani is like any other Northeastern University London undergraduate. The third-year law…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,8457,292937,442,409,18317,292938],"class_list":["post-651265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-law","tag-lisa-collingwood","tag-london","tag-music","tag-music-industry","tag-northeastern-university-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}