W hen Junia Lin Jonsdottir went to college at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, she was determined to get a “real job ...

‘I would sing in public, and everyone would be like, “She’s got the voice of a divorced woman in the body of a 13-year-old girl,”’ says singer-songwriter Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir (Gemma Warren) Words of ...

In recent years, 20-something jazz singers Cécile McLorin Salvant and Samara Joy have found success with audiences their parents’ age and older. Then along comes jazzy 26-year-old Icelandic singer ...

Special guests featured across the two Los Angeles dates. On the first night, Hozier joined Laufey to perform “Magnolia,” ...

With the delicate swell of instruments in the background against a starry night backdrop on stage, it’s as if the Los Angeles-based singer (whose full name is Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir) is transporting ...

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The 26-year-old “Lover Girl” transported her legions of loyal fans gathered at L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena to a jazz club, ...

Making her debut at the Newport Jazz Festival this past July, Reykjavík-born Laufey Lin Jónsdottir, who records as Laufey, was happy and a little shocked to be greeted by a big, enthusiastic crowd at ...

LOS ANGELES — Long before the Icelandic Chinese artist Laufey became recognized the world over for her neoclassical jazz-meets-pop music, she was a student, answering a familiar yearbook prompt: ...

As WFUV honors Women's History Month, we're also heralding a handful of "Ascending Women" musicians who are making their own history with outstanding new music. Some are making comebacks; others are ...

Attentive music fans have had some time now to become familiar with who and what the singer Laufey is: a young Icelandic-Chinese-American woman whose traditional balladry often recalls the pre-rock ...

Words of affirmation are important when you’re a teenage girl – so when Bill Murray told Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir, the Grammy-winning jazz artist known as Laufey, that she was a “powerful woman” at 17, ...