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Laufey Lín Bīng Jónsdóttir was born on 23 April 1999 in Reykjavík, Iceland's capital.Her father is Icelandic and her mother is Chinese, hailing from Guangzhou. [3] Her mother is a classical violinist and her maternal grandfather, Lin Yaoji [], was a violin educator at the Central Conservatory of Music in China, which Laufey credits as partly inspiring her love of music.
Laufey released the first single, "Valentine", on Valentine's Day, 14 February 2022. [4]The second single, "Everything I Know About Love", was released on 21 April, alongside a music video. [5]
"Valentine" addresses Laufey's experiences and continuous reflection of her first love. [4]The song's genre has been described as 50s traditional pop and classical jazz due to its jazz vocals and scat singing, as well as guitar and piano instrumentation joined by light percussion played with a drum brush.
Laufey recorded her first song on her college campus at Berklee in the winter of 2020 — when COVID-19 started becoming a global threat. "I was like, if I don’t record this song today, I’m ...
So she did it herself: During the pandemic, Laufey started writing songs — swoony, old-fashioned love songs with tricky melodies and jazzy chord changes — and performing them on TikTok, where ...
Yeah, I wrote my first original Christmas song, “Christmas Magic,” for this film “Red One,” and it’s very classic and very playful, in the vein of Ella Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby and Nat ...
The reissue of the album Bewitched: The Goddess Edition, was released the following year and debuted at number one in Iceland, becoming Laufey's first number one album in her native country. Between 2023–25, her cover of " Winter Wonderland " became the highest-charting version of the song in the Core Anglosphere countries, excluding the ...
Laufey (pronounced Lay-vay) is captivating Gen Z by writing and singing music that almost sounds like it could be from Gen WWII. Go figure, and go marvel. But the 24-year-old has always ...