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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.
INTERVIEW: With deep, diving vocals that recall jazz icons of yesteryear, the 23-year-old from Iceland is now more popular than Björk and Sigur Rós. She speaks with Ellie Muir about learning to ...
Five years ago, Laufey knew who she was. “Or at least I knew the many different people I was,” she says. “What I didn’t know was who I was as one person.” The daughter of an Icelandic ...
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 ...
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 (singer) (born 1999), Icelandic singer born Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir; Laufey Ámundadóttir (born 1962), Icelandic cell biologist; Laufey Ólafsdóttir (born 1981), Icelandic footballer; Laufey Sigurðardóttir (born 1963), Icelandic footballer; Laufey Valdimarsdóttir (1890–1945), Icelandic women's rights activist
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 teenager — and leaving her a bit "confused."
"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.