List of sophisti-pop artists

This is a list of artists retrospectively classified under the genre sophisti-pop. ^[1] The term has been applied to pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK ^{[2] [3]} which incorporated elements of new wave, jazz, soul, and pop. ^{[2] [4]} Music so classified often made extensive use of electronic keyboards, synthesizers and polished arrangements, particularly horn sections. ^[2]

Sophisti-pop artists

• ABC ^[3]
• Altered Images ^[2]
• Animal Nightlife ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Arkady Mandjiev (on the track "Tsahan tsasn")
• Aztec Camera ^[3]
• Basia ^[2]
• The Blow Monkeys ^[3]
• The Blue Nile ^[5]
• Breathe ^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Christians ^[6]
• Curiosity Killed the Cat ^[3]
• Crowded House
• Danny Wilson ^[3]
• Deacon Blue ^[7]
• Double ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Everything but the Girl ^[2]
• Bryan Ferry ^[8]
• Go West ^{[ citation needed ]}
• Haircut One Hundred ^[9]
• Hue and Cry ^[10]
• Joe Jackson ^[11]
• Johnny Hates Jazz ^[3]
• Laid Back ^[2]
• Level 42 ^[3]
• Living in a Box ^[3]
• Love and Money ^[12]
• Matt Bianco ^[13]
• Orange Juice ^[2]
• Prefab Sprout ^[2]
• Roxy Music ^[14]
• Sade ^[2]
• Scritti Politti ^{[15] [16]}
• Simply Red ^[2]
• Belouis Some ^[17]
• Spandau Ballet ^[18]
• Sting ^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Style Council ^{[2] [15]}
• Swing Out Sister ^[2]
• Tears for Fears
• Jessie Ware ^[4]
• Wet Wet Wet ^[1]

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