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The daughter of an Icelandic father and a Chinese mother, Laufey grew up studying classical cello in Reykjavik. Then she went to Boston’s Berklee College of Music and learned to sing jazz standards.
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 (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.
The EP was self-published by Laufey and later released on 12-inch vinyl through AWAL. [1] Typical of Me was predominantly produced by Laufey's classmate Davin Kingston. Many of the songs on the EP were written by her in the Berklee College of Music dorm room, with the goal of making jazz more accessible.
"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.
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 ...
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.