piri

Sophie Leigh McBurnie (born 14 March 1999), known professionally as piri, is a producer and musician from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom. Her work sits across drum and bass and jungle adjacent styles and a broad set of bass-facing genres: bassline, bass music, breakbeat, dub, dubstep, house, liquid funk, lo-fi hip hop, UK funky, UK garage and related hybrids.

McBurnie studied chemistry at Lancaster University before moving to north London to pursue music. She was one half of the duo piri & tommy with Tommy Villiers; their single "Soft Spot" went viral on TikTok and streaming platforms and the pair released the mixtape Froge.mp3. To help fund her early work she has stated she used earnings from OnlyFans. In 2022 she signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music. She is also an original member of the female and non-binary collective Loud LDN.

As a producer, piri’s public credits include songwriting and co‑production on several tracks, a role that indicates direct involvement in arrangement and studio production rather than only performing. Her recorded output with Tommy Villiers—most visibly the viral "Soft Spot" and the Froge.mp3 mixtape—placed her within melodic, bass-forward pop and liquid-adjacent territory while also touching garage and breakbeat textures noted in her genre list.

Musically, piri works across a spectrum rather than within a single subgenre. The factual record shows activity in liquid and liquid-funk adjacent material, UK garage and bassline-influenced grooves, and also tags connected to breakbeat, dubstep and lo‑fi approaches. Publicly available credits and releases point to concise song structures and crossover-ready productions that move between club-friendly bass weight and melodic, radio-friendly hooks — traits apparent in the streaming success of "Soft Spot" and the mixtape material.

Career highlights and verifiable contributions: half of piri & tommy (with Tommy Villiers); release of the mixtape Froge.mp3; the viral breakout of the single "Soft Spot" on TikTok and streaming platforms; songwriting and co-production credits on multiple tracks; a 2022 publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music; relocation to north London to develop her music career; and membership of the Loud LDN collective. These items are the published, verifiable milestones available in the public record.

Specific named influences are not widely documented in published sources available for this profile. The clearest documented creative connections are her collaboration with Tommy Villiers in piri & tommy and her association with Loud LDN; beyond that, public biographical material emphasizes releases, publishing, education and the funding route she used early in her career. Her Warner Chappell signing in 2022 remains a concrete marker of the transition from viral breakout to industry publishing support.