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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. [4] 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 songs are comforting yet mischievous, indebted to her background in classical music, with deep vocals that dive effortlessly into those roaring low registers of female jazz icons before her.
Between February and July 2022, Laufey announced the release date for her debut studio album and released the album's first four singles. On 11 August 2022, when releasing "Falling Behind", Laufey explained why she wrote the bossa nova inspired song: "I felt like all the people around me were falling in love and I couldn’t help but feel like I was falling behind".
Laufey sings about her doubts about what love is supposed to feel like in "Valentine'... Everyone has had their first love, but maybe hasn’t had the words to describe it. Laufey does it perfectly." [4] Clash wrote that "it's a beatific song, halo'd in beauty, with Laufey seeking out that special connection. Pulling down the barriers, Laufey ...
By the same token, you certainly have written dead serious songs. I don’t know if it portended a new direction or not, but the song “Goddess” you did as a sort of semi-title song for the ...
Attentive music fans have had some time now to become familiar with who and what the singer Laufey is: a young Icelandic-Chinese-American woman whose traditional balladry often recalls the pre ...
Laufey described Everything I Know About Love as a "hopelessly romantic" album of personal growth. She said the songs were based on her experiences, but were written as if they were fiction, and that she tries to create magic out of difficult or bleak moments. [3]
Laufey can also do songs of requited love, too, and has enough years under her belt now to speak from experience with those. Into that category fell the surprised-to-be-in-love “Valentine ...