Sophie Lloyd: 5 Things To Know About Machine Gun Kelly’s Guitarist

• Sophie Lloyd is simply a British guitarist who is portion of Machine Gun Kelly’s Sellout World Tour
• Sophie is 27 years aged and has been with her instrumentalist fellow for 5 years
• Sophie has respective different guitar icons she would emotion to enactment with

Sophie Lloyd has been making headlines precocious arsenic the guitarist for Machine Gun Kelly‘s satellite circuit — and as Megan Fox‘s imaginable hookup. That’s right, amid the breakup rumors swirling astir the “Bloody Valentine” singer, 32, and Transformers actress, 36, Megan joked connected her since-deactivated Instagram successful Feb. 2023 that she “maybe” hooked up the blonde musician, per POPSUGAR. So, who is Sophie Lloyd? Read connected to larn 5 things astir MGK’s Mainstream Sellout World Tour guitarist.

Machine Gun Kelly and Sophie LLoyd jam retired mid-concert (Photo: Arthur Mola/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

1. Sophie Has Been Playing Guitar Since She Was 10 Years Old

Sophie’s authoritative website said she started disconnected arsenic a “bedroom guitarist”, but her credentials suggest thing but. The 27-year-old instrumentalist graduated from the prestigious BIMM Institute (formerly known arsenic The British and Irish Modern Music Institute) successful 2018 and released her archetypal EP, Delusions, portion she was successful school, according to her YouTube channel. Music was ever important to Sophie, which she explains connected her official website. “I started playing guitar erstwhile I was astir 10 years aged aft listening to Led Zeppelin successful the car with my dad,” she said. “Because I was a spot of an outcast, I had a batch of clip to signifier and this gave maine an flight from reality, helped maine flooded my anxieties and truly gave maine a consciousness of fulfillment.” 

Sophie ever took mastering the guitar seriously. Her website besides says she seldom socialized portion increasing up and alternatively would enactment location to signifier her craft.

Sophie LLoyd often wears edgy outfits consisting of bustier harvest tops, frayed jeans, oregon achromatic pieces (Photo: Richard Young/Shutterstock)

2. Sophie Is Taken

Sophie is successful a semipermanent narration with drummer Christopher Painter, who goes by the sanction “The Painter”. They person been unneurotic for 5 years, arsenic the stone drummer shared a 5th day snap to his Instagram provender successful Jan. 2023 to observe the milestone. “Today marks a precise peculiar day. It was the time I asked you to beryllium my spouse successful crime. And 5 years aboriginal that is inactive precise accurate,” helium captioned a photograph of them playing their respective instruments together. “Thank you for everything you do. Thank you for your thoughtfulness, kindness, generosity, care, silliness and your love. @sophieguitar_ …You get maine similar nary 1 other does and person been my stone for 5 coagulated years.”

On their archetypal anniversary, Sophie called Christopher “gorgeous” and her “best friend” alongside a slideshow of loved up snapshots of them together, arsenic seen below.

The Painter plays drums for Sophie erstwhile she’s not touring with a world-famous musician, according to his Instagram page. He’s seemingly besides her No. 1 fan, arsenic he’s posted himself supporting her from the sidelines aggregate times arsenic she toured astir the satellite with the “my ex’s champion friend” hitmaker. He adjacent praised Machine Gun Kelly and his set during summertime 2022.

“Yo Kels acknowledgment for bringing Sophie backmost successful 1 piece,” helium joked successful the caption of a representation with the superstar. “Don’t fuss with immoderate of the b******* you work astir MGK online. From what I experienced, they are the astir astonishing radical of radical you could meet. The MGK campy person been truthful unthinkable to Sophie and person besides made maine consciousness truthful welcomed, and volition ever beryllium grateful for that.”

3. Sophia Is A YouTube Star

Sophie began her YouTube relationship successful 2011 and gained a ample pursuing arsenic she consistently posted videos of her perfectly shredding. Her relationship has much than 800,000 followers arsenic of this penning and is inactive growing. She posts respective videos a month, contempt her engaged schedule. In summation to philharmonic videos, she sometimes gives her fans behind-the-scenes views of her rockstar beingness by creating regular vlogs. She has posted vlogs connected Instagram arsenic well, arsenic seen below.

4. Sophie Is A Partner With Kiesel Guitars

Sophie teamed up with American guitar marque Kiesel Guitars successful 2020 to motorboat a Limited Artist Edition of her A6H Aries electrical guitar. It was crafted successful Kiesel’s Custom Shop successful Escondido, Calif. and created with Sophie’s specifications, according to Guitar World. “Having an Artist Series guitar has been 1 of my aspirations since I was a kid, and to person 1 with my favourite guitar institution is conscionable mind-blowing,” she said astatine the time. “Ever since I got this guitar it’s provided maine with truthful overmuch inspiration and creativity which has truly taken my playing to the adjacent level, and I’m truthful excited for everyone to effort it and autumn successful emotion with it arsenic overmuch arsenic I have.”

She besides gave the institution immoderate emotion successful Feb. 2022. “All the hard enactment and thought down each and each guitar is truthful astonishing and inspiring to see, truthful honored to beryllium a portion of this astonishing company,” she wrote alongside a carousel of pics from her clip astatine the shop, arsenic seen above.

5. Sophie Has Big Plans

Touring with MGK seems to beryllium conscionable the commencement for Sophie and her dreams. On her website, she revealed she would emotion to marque collaborative albums with Guns N’ Roses pb guitarist Slash, Joe Satriani, Grammy Award victor Steve Vai, and others. She has dreams of making an interaction connected the world’s younker arsenic well. “I’d besides emotion to bash immoderate benignant of circuit wherever I spell astir to antithetic primary/secondary schools and bash a masterclass to promote younger, particularly girls, to prime up the guitar,” she said. “And yet I’d similar to person my ain customized enactment of guitars with a institution that radical tin buy.”

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