Grammy winning Irish musician Cian Ducrot says girlfriend is his ‘rock'

Sunday World

18-05-2025

Cian Ducrot says his partner Sofia Jane is the inspiration for his songs
Grammy winning Irish musician Cian Ducrot admits his girlfriend has been his 'rock' for the past five years.
And the Cork singer admits many of his best-selling songs are about Sofia Jane Cunningham, a fitness coach from Eastbourne in England.
The couple live in London and Sofia regularly shares her workouts on social media, as well as holidays and events with Cian.
'I met Sofia very early on in the pandemic and we have been together almost five years and she is definitely my rock and my muse,' Cian (27) tells the Sunday World.
Sofia Jane and Cian have been together for years
'A lot of the music that I write is about her and inspired by her and the feelings that I have for her. She has taught me so much about life and she reminds me constantly to be grateful, and to take things in.
'She is very much my other half in all of this and we travel the world together, and she loves music.'
Cian's track All For You was regularly used on Love Island in 2022, bringing the Douglas star to a whole new audience.
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'When I was in boarding school I watched a bit [of Love Island] with some friends for fun and then I kind of didn't watch it at all,' he recalls.
'Then I randomly decided to watch it that year, when my song on it, which was very kind of random.
'To my surprise, the one night I wasn't watching it, because I was out for dinner with my friends, I leave dinner and my phone is blowing up with 'oh my God your song was on Love Island' It's crazy, very mad.'
Cian Ducrot with the Grammy he won for co-writing Saturn
Cian's first album Victory featured not only All For You but also I'll Be Waiting, while his upcoming album Little Dreaming will be released in July.
The hitmaker nabbed a Grammy for his contribution in co-writing SZA's song Saturn, which was crowned Best R&B Song, while earlier this year he also sang the Irish and French national anthems prior to the Ireland/France game in Dublin's Aviva stadium. Cian's dad is French and his mum is Irish.
Tonight Cian can be seen on Virgin Media's Secret Headliner, where a couple of hundred people were invited to a gig, not knowing who the artist was until they walked out on stage.
'I knew there would be people there that would be hopefully excited to see me and surprised, and then I knew that there was obviously people who didn't know who they were going to see and probably weren't fans of mine,' he reflects.
'And maybe have never been to a show before and possibly would have never have come to a show or even bought tickets to come to see me.
'It was a really exciting thing again to hopefully be able to win them over and give a show that these new fans maybe would be able to enjoy, and I think that's really exciting to try and win people over, it adds another element to the gig.'
Sofia Jane
Cian was inundated with requests for support acts and gave the slot to rising Sligo singer Paddy Keyes.
'Paddy just had this thing that stood out to me, that made me feel something and it was kind of that instinct and gut feeling where I just felt it,' he says.
Cian was also picked as the headline act for the New Year's Eve celebrations in Dublin Castle to ring in 2025, and his success in recent years is a far cry from his appearance on BBC's The Voice nine years ago when none of the four judges turned for him.
'The Voice was one of those early moments for me where I was kind of up on a high and I fell down from a high... that has happened many, many, many times since, maybe less publicly than something like The Voice,' he reveals.
'We only learn from our failures anyway, so I think if you're just successful all the time you'll never get anywhere.'