Lengthy earlier than the Icelandic-Chinese language artist Laufey turned recognised the world over for her neoclassical-jazz-meets-pop music, she was a scholar answering a well-recognized yearbook immediate: “The place do you see your self in 10 years?”
Her reply: transfer to the US, signal a document deal and win a Grammy. The 26-year-old has carried out all three.
“I will need to have been so assured to put in writing that as a result of I do not forget that being a really far-sought form of factor,” the musician born Laufey Lin Jonsdottir says.
Laufey’s third album, A Matter of Time, out August 22, is an surprising nonconformist to the principles of latest pop, pulling inspiration from nation and Icelandic people music in addition to classical and bossa nova sounds.