There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) Gordi is Australian indie-pop singer-songwriter Sophie Payten (born 28 December 1992); 2) Gordi (Serbian Cyrillic: Горди; trans. The Proud Ones) is a Serbian and Yugoslav rock band formed in Belgrade in 1977. 1) Gordi is Australian indie-pop singer-songwriter Sophie Payten (born 28 December 1992) based in Sydney. Raised in the small farming community of Canowindra in Australia’s New South Wales, amongst a minuscule population of 2381, Payten learned to play piano and guitar in her house — with Billy Joel on near-constant rotation.