Sopor Aeternus And The Ensemble Of Shadows个人资料：
永恒沉睡（Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadows），常简称作Sopor Aeternus、Sopor或SA，是德国的一支暗潮与哥特风格的乐队。乐队的固定成员仅有Anna-Varney Cantodea一人。Sopor aeternus为拉丁语，意为永恒沉睡或死亡。成立于1989年。
永恒沉睡起源于Anna-Varney与Holger相逢于德国的一个哥特俱乐部。最初两人没有钱购买乐器，只能在头脑中创作，尽管如此，他们还是创作了相当多的作品，并在1992年发行了样品唱片。后来Holger离开了乐队。而后厂牌Apocalyptic Visions为永恒沉睡发行了首张录音室唱片。Sopor Aeternus的的作品里面使用大量的铜管，木管乐器，尤其是笛子等带有强烈宗教色彩的配乐，以及各种吉他，合成器之类，内容多涉及死亡，自杀，悲苦，绝望，孤独，变性等题材。
Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows (Latin: sopor ternus "eternal sleep"; often referred to or stylized as Sopor Aeternus or Sopor) is a darkwave musical project based in Frankfurt, founded in 1989 by Anna-Varney Cantodea. Since the projects beginnings, Anna-Varneys work has garnered a cult following, notorious for its extremely personalized, melancholic and pessimistic nature, drawing on a number of different musical and visual styles.
Born male, Cantodea prefers to be defined as a woman. She has never undergone surgery to change sex and does not intend to. Cantodeas pseudonym is derived from several sources. Firstly, the common name Anna, and secondly the Latin word cantodea, a composed neologism meaning "I sing, goddess". (As a side note, the Latin term for "female singer" is cantor de.) She had been using the stage name "Varney" prior to 1997, that name taken from the Victorian Gothic horror story Varney, the Vampire; or the Feast of Blood.
Reportedly, Cantodea suffered beatings at the hands of her parents, and by peers in school. At the age of six, she had an out-of-body experience while sedated during a tonsillectomy.
Cantodea maintains a series of attention seeking behaviors to portray a persona that is voluntarily isolated, and too complicated to understand. She has stated that she does not perform live "in front of humans." Despite this, she currently seems to be acquainted with the pagan and occult author Raven Digitalis, who is one of the "managers" of the Official Sopor Aeternus MySpace profile. She has an affinity for the author Edgar Allan Poe, adapting his poems to music on several occasions; she is also a supporter of several activist movements, including animal rights, pro-euthanasia, LGBT rights, vegan and vegetarian efforts. Cantodea is a very spiritual person, with devotion placed on the Roman deity Saturn. She combined Saturns astrological symbol with that of Jupiters to create the symbol of Jusa, an icon that reflects her spirituality and has become an insignia for herself and her music.
