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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 ...
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.
"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.
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 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 ...
Yet Laufey is wildly popular, far more so than any chart positions would indicate — although her new album, “Bewitched,” has racked up stats like most-streamed jazz debut on Spotify ever.
"Goddess" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Laufey. It was released on 6 March 2024 as the lead single from the reissue of her second studio album, Bewitched , subtitled The Goddess Edition .
It seems like there’s been a lot of dramatic videos where it’s like, “Well, I’m gonna cast two actors as the dramatic leads,” like “All Too Well” from Taylor Swift. But you went for it.