As she gears up for the release of A Matter of Time, her second album, on 22 August, jazz-inflected Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey has been discussing her writing process and how she’s managed to ...

The singer-songwriter has captured the attention of a wide fanbase — and the music business — by creating a sonic and aesthetic world all her own. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer “Is Laufey jazz?” ...

The ‘Is Laufey jazz?’ question is one that’s been asked ever since the Icelandic singer-songwriter first broke through on TikTok in 2020, but with a new single out and a third album on the way, the ...

Coincidental to the release of the film, Variety is also honoring Laufey this weekend as the Crossover Artist of the Year at our Hitmakers event, celebrating her mixture of jazz and pop leanings and ...

From a young age, Laufey says she felt like a "circus animal." The 25-year-old singer-songwriter grew up in both Iceland and America, never quite feeling at home in either place. She also had a ...

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 a child, Laufey always assumed that, if she ever decided to pursue music professionally, she'd play cello in an orchestra. Growing up in a musical family in Reykjavík, her mother a classical ...

The glare of the stage lights close in on Laufey as she stands before a 55-piece orchestra, who are producing a swelling crescendo of sound that engulfs the stage. As the 23-year-old takes to the ...

Laufey is standing in the middle of a north London photo studio, about to make a very important decision. “OK, Taylor Swift,” says the Icelandic-Chinese jazz singer, having just chosen the playlist to ...

Growing up, Laufey considered herself an odd kid with an “old lady voice,” yet her voice has now become her anachronistic signature in a plastically-coded melodramatic pop music industry. A graduate ...