Jasmine Wong Chu Qing (born 8 November 1995), known professionally as Jasmine Sokko, is a Singaporean singer-songwriter and electronic music producer. She is known for songs such as "Tired" (2019), "Burnout Dynasty" (2025), and "You'll Be Okay" (2026) and performances such as in Rave Now in 2018. Sokko was one of the most-streamed Singaporean female singers on Spotify in 2018, and won the Best Southeast Asian Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2019.
Sokko uses instruments such as the ROLI Seaboard, and software such as Mixed Reality Toolkit and TouchDesigner, and prefers putting a bigger focus on her vocals over her instruments. Sokko predominantly writes in the electropop genre. Rising from an unintentional directorial decision in her 2016 debut of "1057", Sokko used visors or masks to conceal parts of her face while performing. She revealed her face on Instagram in 2023. She employs black clothes, eyewear, and wings to create an identity, described as "dark" and "futuristic" by Hidayah Idris of Cleo.
Following her 2018 performance on Rave Now in which she placed fourth, she gained 65,000 new followers on Weibo in six weeks. Kendra Tan of 8days and Eddino Abdul Hadi of The Straits Times cited Rave Now as a reason for her fame. After, she started creating Mandopop songs, such as in the extended play titled Made in Future (2020), but since decreased her involvement from 2021, desiring to stand out and diversify her music.
In 2019, Sokko released "Tired", described as her breakthrough role according to Melissa Stewart of Channel NewsAsia and Terence Poh of T Singapore, having accumulated 11.7 million streams on Spotify by 2024. In 2025, Sokko released "Burnout Dynasty", winning for the Best Visual Effects at the 2026 Berlin Music Video Awards. In 2026, Sokko released "You'll Be Okay" for the National Day Parade, and aerially performed amidst a drone show at the National Stadium.
Early life Jasmine Wong Chu Qing was born on 8 November 1995. Her stage name is derived from Finnish , meaning "blind", which she described as apt for her masked persona. She has an older brother.
From a young age, Sokko had wishes of becoming a rock star and held an interest in music, wanting to be "cool", which she later described as a shallow reason. In a pursuit, she had participated in a rock band as the bassist and vocalist. She did not excel in the bass, and had a poor rhythmic sense. Sokko was made to learn the piano at a young age, but never excelled at it. Out of rebellion, at 13 years old, she bought a guitar with her own savings, and taught herself how to play.
Having moved around a lot and spending time alone while her parents worked, she anchored herself with music. She spent a few years growing up in Malaysia.
Sokko describes herself as an "average student" who never fit in societally, because of her different interests such as in museums and libraries. She attended Compassvale Primary School Alt URL and St Andrew's Junior College. To satisfy her parents, she reluctantly studied business management at the Singapore Management University (SMU), but accepted the situation after studying for a year. She took a semester off to work on her music. Sokko was awarded the SMU Emerging Artist Award, which recognised its undergraduates for their artistic works.
From August 2018, she was part of a six-month student exchange programme to Stockholm, motivated by Swedish culture where songwriting was normalised and culturally supported. Sokko described it as the last chance for her music career, sending cold emails over months to find a music collaborator and eventually receiving an invitation to Rave Now. She did not pass her exchange programme.
Persona Sokko wore masks to conceal parts of her face while performing, as she wanted people to focus more on her music than her appearance. The masks were custom-made or sourced by Randolph Tan, her stylist. Apart from masks, she also used visors and fans. According to Geoffrey Eu of The Business Times, her use of masks was a compromise for her introverted nature, but was also a way to start conversations among listeners. Her persona influences her music and fashion, and is a method of escapism and an extension of her personality, according to Sokko. The use of masks was an unintentional decision; a mask was worn in her first music video, "1057", for its plot of a girl finding someone lost, who ended up to be her masked self. She continued wearing it after a directorial suggestion to omit removing the mask at the conclusion of the video for mystery and an "open-ended" effect.
Sokko was inspired by mask-wearing artists like Zhu and DeadMau5. She compared her stage persona to Dan Brown's Robert Langdon from The Da Vinci Code, saying that both stage personae are "fictional" but an idolisation of who they want to be. In July 2023, Sokko revealed her face on Instagram, after deciding that her mask did not matter much and no longer served its purpose, having gained confidence in her music. The mask had been shrinking in size over the years, and her stage identity and personal identity had become increasingly merged. After, Sokko started wearing large wings and eyewear, as a replacement for the mask.
Sokko only wears black clothes, enjoying designers that work with black like Yohji Yamamoto and Comme des Garçons. She later drew inspiration from brands like Mugler, Rick Owens and Dion Lee, described as "edgy" by Hashirin Nurin Hashimi of Tatler Asia. She describes black as consistent and evoking strength and mystery, being apt for her personality as black is ubiquitous and ignored. Hidayah Idris of Cleo describes her style as "dark" and "futuristic", Eddino Abdul Hadi of The Straits Times described her image as "cyberpunk-inspired", and Eu described her atmosphere as "edgy" and "alluring".
Career
Background Sokko was inspired to create her music after finding it hard to connect with the sexual and narcotic content of the songs she mainly listened to. Sokko was also inspired by musicians like Julia Michaels and Grimes. Without formal music education, she educated herself on various aspects of music creation, such as production, composition, and marketing. Having found learning from textbooks and YouTube videos ineffective at 19 years old, she opted to learn by direct usage.
Sokko grew up with rock music, but felt that her voice was too "thin" for it. She pursued electronic music after listening to Skrillex and Kygo, realising that they did not sing, and reframed her perspective on music. Sokko felt that electronic music was promising for the future.
As singing was an unorthodox career in Singapore, Sokko's parents did not support her singing career until 2019. They asked her to focus on school and treat singing as a hobby, preferring that she instead have a "stable job", and were only convinced after she signed with Warner Music Singapore and showed using an Excel sheet that singing was financially viable.
Style Sokko sings, writes, and produces her own music, in the genre of electropop, which Hidayah Idris of Cleo describes as "melancholic". She describes her songs as "sad", "angry" and about facing "resistance", as a musical outlet to explore her insecurities and express dislike towards feeling stifled in Singapore's pragmatic society, personifying herself, hoping that Singapore will grow to accept people with unorthodox goals. Alt URL For juxtaposition, Sokko pairs the darker themes with "fun" music. She draws inspiration from her surroundings, writes short ideas in a notebook, and notes down melodies by recording using her phone.
Sokko enjoys experimenting with music and deviating from what she is known for, which she cites as a factor of success. She hopes to empower the younger generation to pursue unrealistic dreams and not worry about being a social outcast, and women to pursue things regardless of societal expectations. She also hopes that her songs allow people to think deeper about things and connect people globally.
Sokko uses instruments like the ROLI Seaboard, a keyboard-style MIDI controller. She prefers to lean more into her vocals, unlike other electronic music producers who lean into their instruments. Sokko uses hardware like Tap, a wearable computer keyboard, and software like the Mixed Reality Toolkit, and TouchDesigner for remixing. Sokko also uses physical motion to modulate music. Although she uses tools such as Claude, she does not use artificial intelligence to make music, preferring to enjoy the creative process of music creation.
Chinese expansion Sokko expanded her career into China to be more culturally in-touch with her ancestry, making music in Mandarin. After expanding into China, she became more cognisant to the depth and poeticalness of Chinese songs. Her time in China taught her discipline in social media and spend more time on music creation, due to a poor internet reception, and the importance of visuals during performance. In September 2019, Alt URL Sokko debuted in China's music market with the Mandarin song "Shh". To produce the song, she revised her Mandarin after having neglected it, reconnecting with her secondary school Chinese teacher, after having found textbooks and YouTube videos ineffective.
Sokko joined Rave Now, a Chinese electronic music competition which premiered in December 2018, after the producers reached out to her. Sokko kept her participation secret from her parents, neglecting her studies during the student exchange in Stockholm; after her parents found out through the news and the event ended, she apologised. Sokko held an interest due to its focus on electronic music producers, and had curiosity about China due to its inaccessibility from outside the nation. She wanted to break in to the Chinese market where electronic music was relatively new, and received greater feedback compared to Singapore.
She placed fourth in Rave Now, a Chinese electronic music competition, as the only Singaporean. The Chinese audience described her performance as "exotic". She performed Chinese covers, and her own songs such as "1057" and "#0000FF" with Chinese lyrics. Within six weeks of airing Rave Now, she gained 65,000 new followers on Weibo.
Kendra Tan of 8days wrote that the competition gave her the motivation and exposure needed to become one of the most streamed Singaporean female artists on Spotify, and Eddino Abdul Hadi of The Straits Times described it as a reason for her fame. Driven by her participation in Rave Now, she released a Chinese language extended play, Made in Future, consisting of six tracks, on 18 November 2020. It contained "Girls", a song about female empowerment that featured Chinese rapper VaVa, as the focus single.
From 2021, she decreased her involvement with the bilingual Mandopop songs, saying that it did not make her stand out as much as she wanted, and wanted to strive to create something new instead of keeping to the same formula. In 2026, she said that she did not dismiss Chinese songs yet, citing her bilingual upbringing.
Releases In September 2016, Sokko made her single debut "1057" in the electronic genre, which she also wrote and produced. Being the word lost written in numbers, it was about losing one's ways in a "number"-obsessed society, such as grades, followers, and money. The song placed first in Spotify's Singapore viral charts when it was released.
In September 2017, she released her debut extended play (EP) titled N°, short for Number, after having released songs such as "1057", "#0000FF", "H2O", "2D" and "600D", which contained emotions about resisting society. The song "#0000FF" is named after the colour code for blue, writing about the grief of having a toxic lover. The song was commended by Lay Zhang and Alan Walker during her performance in Rave Now in December 2018; Zhang enjoyed the production and "futuristic" melody.