American singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins was BOTD in 1967. Born in New York City, she attended the Manhattan School of Music before pursuing a music career. Her 1992 debut album Tongues and Tails was a critical and commercial success, earning her a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. Her sultry single Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover was an international success, and she became a queer icon after announcing her bisexuality. Her follow-up album Whaler, released in 1994, spawned the wholesome hit single As I Lay Me Down. After a long-running dispute with Sony Records over her third album Timbre, Hawkins founded her own label Trumpet Swan Productions, independently producing and releasing the album Wilderness in 2004. In 2012, she starred as bisexual singer Janis Joplin in the play Room 105, written and directed by her girlfriend and manager Gigi Gaston. Her fifth album, The Crossing, was released later that year. Hawkins identifies as omnisexual, also describing herself as “liberal in bed, conservative in the head”. Somewhat confusingly, she has supported LGBTQ suicide prevention charity the Trevor Project and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, while also advocating for gun ownership and critiquing modern identity politics. She has two children whom she raised with Gaston.