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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 (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 ...
Is Laufey a jazz artist, or a bona fide pop star? The qualified answer, with asterisks to spare, is “both.” And that’s part of the fun in discussing everyone’s favorite Icelandic-Asian ...
It's not hard to recognize Laufey's talent. In a new interview with The Independent, the Grammy-winning jazz-pop singer, 25, recalled none other than Bill Murray giving her a compliment as a ...
A Night at the Symphony is a live album and concert video by Laufey with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, released on 2 March 2023. [1] With three new cover songs, the musical material is mostly from Laufey's Everything I Know About Love and Typical of Me. [2] It was recorded at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík on 26–27 October 2022. [1]
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.”
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 ...
The singer and songwriter won a Grammy for traditional pop vocal album in February. Now she's the star of a concert movie shot at the Hollywood Bowl. Laufey on jazz purists, Olivia Rodrigo and her ...