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By: Manuela Herrán

Many new and talented artists are always showing up on social media, streaming platforms, and pretty much everywhere. It's interesting to see how new genres and styles of music are appearing all over the world. It’s innovative, beautiful and inspiring. Today I'm going to introduce to you one of my latest favorite artists, which is an empowered and talented woman called Laufey Lin, or more commonly known in social media as Laufey. 

Laufey shows a vintage but innovative sound to the media. She brings a combination of Jazz, Soul, Folk and Indie music which arranged together, sounds beautiful, unique and timeless, for younger and older audiences. The young half Chinese and half Icelandic artist plays piano, cello, guitar, and was able to debut in the Iceland Symphony orchestra with the cello at the age of 15. The singer songwriter participated in Iceland's Got Talent in 2014, getting to become one of the finalists. A year later, she also participated in The Voice Iceland, becoming the youngest contestant, and getting to semifinals. A couple of years later, the talented Laufey is now studying in Berklee College of Music in Boston, and constantly performs small concerts for the college.

Many of the inspirations of Laufey are Jazz artists, and women within the industry, like Norah Jones, Amy Whinehouse, Ella Fitzgerald, among many others. She has also claimed to be inspired by The Great American Songbook. This song book collects a lot of songs gathered from many artists mainly in the 20’s and in the 60’s. It features a lot of composers of the time, with pieces regarding classical music, and mainly jazz.  Laufey constantly makes content in her social media with covers of multiple songs and artists, accompanied by her amazing talent in the instruments previously mentioned. Laufey’s voice is unique and has a heavenly vibrato-rich tone that tackles a lot of timeless classics of sublime mix of old Jazz standards and also some new and self-penned songs. 

Laufey has a total of four original songs in her repertory, that include the titles of: Best Friend, Someone New, Street by Street, and Magnolia. She is also planning on releasing a new ep this summer on all streaming platforms, along with many new covers. Definitely, Laufey is fit for a variety of older music fans with her nostalgic soaked songwriting. She will also be surprising many new music lovers all over the world. The minimalist and aesthetic artist will be a success in a few years, expanding the world of mainstream music, and inspiring a lot of new artists.

 Website: https://www.laufeymusic.com/ 

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