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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 ...
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 ...
Laufey (pronounced lay-vay) grew up in Iceland as a multi-instrumentalist kid prodigy, schooled in classical as well as jazz. Now, living in L.A., she’s one of our unlikeliest as well as most ...
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.
With her debut EP, Typical of Me (2021), and her debut album, Everything I Know About Love (2022), Laufey reached the top ten on the US Jazz Albums and UK Jazz & Blues Albums charts. The following year, she released her first live album A Night at the Symphony with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra , a top five success in Iceland and on the US ...
Laufey Lin, a 24-year-old Icelandic musician and songwriter, is bringing jazz and classical music to Gen Z through her TikTok videos. She has a theory for why classic music works.
Described by Laufey as "a love album, whether it be a love towards a friend or a lover or life", Bewitched deals with a variety of romantic themes in its songs. Musically, Bewitched consists of jazz pop ballads, predominantly written by Laufey and collaborator Spencer Stewart, and produced by the duo along with Philharmonia Orchestra and Dan ...
In reviewing Laufey’s August concert with the LA Philharmonic, Variety wrote, “Laufey feels like she was born to play the Hollywood Bowl, with her rapturously received pop/jazz/classical set ...