The 59-year-old ’90s pop star has barely aged a day in the 32 years since she sold a million copies and became omnisexual

SOPHIE B. Hawkins was at the center of the Nineties craze thanks to the smooth pop tracks I Wish I Was Your Lover and Lay Me Down.

She sold millions of cassette tapes and 32 years later her songs are still huge.

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Sophie, 59, was part of a wave of female singers in the mid-90s who were a force to be reckoned with.

Sophie, along with Alanis Morissette, Melissa Etheridge, Bonnie Raitt and Gwen Stefani showed that talent was practically falling from the sky.

Last year she released her new album, Free Myself and also went on tour.

But despite her musical genius, she has been dogged by questions about her sexuality.

Sophie honed her musical talents at the Manhattan School of Music before working with Bryan Ferry and being fired.

In 1989 he caught the attention of record companies and released his first song on Sony.

After leaving Sony, she released five albums on her own label and would later say that her career in the 90s was “a journey to create on my own terms and defy classification”.

Despite her achievements and the sale of millions of records, she said she was irritated when a journalist was only interested in whether she was gay.

She wrote an article about her life for Huffington Post last year: “I’m talking to the esteemed music writer for The New York Times. ‘Are you a lesbian?’ he asks.”

Sophie went on to say that she told the journalist, “I’m omnisexual.”

She continued: “My gender does not define my sexuality.

“My creative spirit does. A male partner doesn’t make me straight, nor does a female partner make me gay. ‘I am all,’ omni is all and one.”

Sophie became a strong advocate for LGBT rights and spoke freely about the gender spectrum.

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