From The Start
Laufey is a singer and songwriter initially from Iceland. She studied piano and cello as a child. When she was 15, she was a visitor soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. She went to Berklee College of Music in Boston, and that’s when she began writing songs. While she was nonetheless a scholar, she had a primary hit on Icelandic radio. Her first album debuted at primary on Billboard’s Alternative New Artist chart. Her second album, Bewitched, got here out in September 2023. And for this episode, I talked to Laufey in regards to the breakout hit from that new album: a music referred to as “From The Start.”
You can purchase or stream “From The Start” right here.
Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
For a transcript of this episode, click on right here.
Bossa nova
Spencer Stewart – Producer
Pentatonic scale
Jazz commonplace
George Gershwin
Irving Berlin
Cole Porter