Sonia represented the United Kingdom in 1993 with her song Better The Devil You Know and almost won Eurovision. She was narrowly beaten by Ireland’s Niamh Kavanagh with the song In Your Eyes.
Prior to entering Eurovision, Sonia was already quite successful in the UK and was part of the Stock, Aitken & Waterman pop machine. In 1989 her song, You’ll Never Stop Me Loving You reached number one in the UK and Sonia became the first female UK artist to achieve five hit singles from one album. She had 11 top 30 hits between 1989 and 1993 including Listen To Your Heart, Counting Every Minute and Only Fools (Never Fall In Love).
After appearing in Eurovision, Sonia went on to have a varied career on stage, TV and continued to release new music. In 1994 she performed in a West End musical as Sandy in Grease. This was followed by some new song releases which unfortunately did not have the same success as her earlier releases and most of which didn’t make it into the top 100.
In 2003, Sonia appeared in a reality TV show called Reborn In The USA alongside other pop stars and also featured fellow Eurovision alumni, Gina G. The show saw the artists touring the USA and performing a show with one artist being eliminated each week. Sonia came 6th out if nine participants (Gina G finished in 8th place).
Between 2007 and 2011 she starred in various pantomines in the UK such as Jack & The Beanstalk and Cinderella.
In December 2012, she performed at the Stock, Aitken, Waterman Hit Factory reunion concert at London’s O2 Arena along with other former SAW acts such as Kylie Minogue, Rick Astley and Bananarama. In 2015, Sonia returned to TV appearing in a children’s comedy sketch show called Hacker Time
In 2019, Sonia turned 48 and announced that she had signed a new record deal with Energise records and released a single called A Night That’s Never Ending.
After the cancellation of Eurovision in 2020, Sonia posted to Twitter to reminisce about her time in the competition and also responded to the official Eurovision Twitter account that asked the public to get involved with the virtual edition of the show to say that she had “already done hers and sent it in”.