Sonny Hall

Sonny Hall (born 10 June 1998)[4][5] is an English model and poet.[6][7][8][9] Hall released his debut poetry collection, The Blues Comes With Good News, through Hodder & Stoughton in September 2019.[10][11][12] He is signed to Kate Moss's modelling agency and is known as a prominent figure within the modern London modelling scene.[13][14][15]

Sonny Hall
Born
Sonny Hall

(1998-06-10) 10 June 1998
London, England
NationalityBritish
Modelling information
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Hair colourBrown
Eye colourBlue/Green
Agencies

Early life

Hall was born and raised in south west London.[16][17] He was adopted at age four but maintained contact with his birth mother.[6] He dropped out of fashion school in 2014.[6] He began using drugs in his teenage years, but fell into an addiction soon after his birth mother died of a heroin overdose in 2015. He rehabilitated at The Cabin Chiang Mai addiction clinic in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2017.[16][18]

Career

Hall's career started when he was scouted at a gig in Camden Town circa 2014.[16] In 2015, he modelled in British fashion photographer Nick Knight's fashion film, Yungsters.[19] Hall first began writing in 2017 when he was in rehab in Thailand.[20][9] He shortly began posting his own poetry on his personal Instagram account.[21] Hall released debut poetry collection The Blues Comes With Good News, which sold over 1.5 thousand copies with its first edition in just six months.[6] He consequently was hired by British fashion designer Christopher Bailey for one of his Burberry campaigns alongside model Adwoa Aboah.[6][21] Hall's poetry also caught the attention of British singer Rita Ora who starred him in her music video for her single "Let You Love Me".[21][18] Hall also toured with British musician and "good friend" Bakar in 2018, with whom he performed his own poetry.[22] Hall made the front cover of both GQ Korea,[23][24] and Italian magazine Di Repubblica in April 2020.[25]

References
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  2. "Portfolio: Sonny Hall". One Management. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
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  5. Sonny Hall [official account] [@SonnySkeeno] (10 June 2018). "20 yrs old today" (Tweet). Retrieved 12 August 2020 – via Twitter.
  6. Hine, Samuel (8 November 2019). "Meet Sonny Hall, the Model-Poet She Told You Not to Worry About". GQ. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  7. Fielding, Anna (8 April 2020). "Sonny Hall is the poetry poster boy you're going to want to read next". Stylist. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  8. Waymouth, Adam (29 November 2019). "Sonny Hall: "Je suis une éponge, j'absorbe tout ce que je vois et entends"" [Sonny Hall: "I am a sponge, I absorb everything I see and hear"]. L'Officiel (in French). Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  9. Pallardy, Richard (12 August 2020). "Sonny Hall". ODDA Magazine. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  10. Chandler, Mark (25 July 2019). "Hodder signs collection from Instragram poet Sonny Hall". The Bookseller. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  11. Kelly, Juno (6 January 2020). "Sonny Hall talks "ridding nonsense" and "exposing silly fucking taboos"". Love. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  12. "What To Wear Now: Presenting Our 15 Favorite Spring Fits - Starring Wisdom Onwubiko, Sonny Hall, and Mona Matsuoka". GQ. 10 March 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  13. Goldstone, Penny; Makan, Sunil (17 February 2020). "Tommy Hilfiger brings the party (and a stellar cast of models) to London". Marie Claire. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  14. Luckhurst, Phoebe (2 October 2019). "London's most influential people 2019 – Going Out: Party People". Evening Standard. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  15. Roberts, Georgina (11 April 2020). "Gen Z icons: from Greta and Billie to Kylie Jenner and Zendaya". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  16. Hayes, Martha (13 March 2019). "Sonny Hall on rehab, writing and reinventing himself". Evening Standard. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  17. Weinstock, Tish (25 April 2017). "What's Up London". Unemployed Mag. Retrieved 12 August 2020. Tell us a bit about yourself and where you grew up? South west London.
  18. Gillibrand, Abigail (3 December 2018). "Burberry model Sonny Hall on road to recovery and losing his voice to addiction". Metro. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  19. "Sonny Hall". Show Studio. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  20. Morgan, Hayley (21 November 2018). "Meet The Model: Sonny Hall Is The Lad Of Your Dreams". Oyster. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  21. Becker, Kara (12 February 2020). "Sonny Hall: Czas na szczerość". Vogue Poland (in Polish). Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  22. "Interview with Sonny Hall". Fred Perry UK. 25 September 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  23. "Sonny Hall on the cover of GQ Korea - April 2020 Issue". Why Not Model Management. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  24. "GQ Korea April 2020 Cover (GQ Korea)". models.com. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  25. Maximilian (29 April 2020). "Sonny Hall covers D Lui la Repubblica April 2020 by Christophe Meimoon". Fashionotography. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
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