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LAUFEY
returns with new single
‘FROM THE START’
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Sold-out debut
Australian shows this June
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Photo credits: Gemma Warren
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“Laufey’s timeless, low-and-slow style warmly blends jazz, classical and pop, vividly soundtracking the young Icelander’s own tender age.” — NPR Music
“Mixing pop with classical flourishes, Laufey captures everyday emotions, like falling in love, and elevates them with a degree of musicality and flair that is anything but ordinary.” — The Fader
“Laufey deftly melds new elements of modern music with more traditional sounds of classic jazz, articulating the push and pull of love and loss with distinct eloquence.” — Consequence
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LA-based, break-out jazz artist and multi-instrumentalist Laufey (pronounced lāy-vāy) unveils new track ‘From The Start’ via AWAL Recordings, the first taste of much more new original music to come later this year. The highly anticipated new single has already amassed 700,000 streams across DSPs since it became available this morning.
“‘From The Start’ is a bossa nova inspired song about being in love with your best friend…who is in love with someone else. I wrote the song to create a playful mix of old sounds with modern lyrics,” Laufey explains.
The song follows the release of A Night At The Symphony—a curated collection of songs Laufey recorded with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra during a sold-out two-night run at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík last year. A Night At The Symphony features previously released tracks off her debut album Everything I Know About Love and her 2021 EP, Typical of Me.
Her recently announced debut Australian shows in Melbourne & Sydney this June sold-out in minutes, with an additional Melbourne show also selling out.
Laufey’s headlining performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra this fall, as well as her entire summer tour across Asia Pacific also sold-out. She will also appear at various festivals this summer including Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta, Ottawa Jazz Festival and THING Festival.
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Laufey is a 24-year-old, Los Angeles-based singer, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist whose jazz songs are about young love and self-discovery. Raised between Reykjavík and Washington D.C. with annual visits to Beijing, the Icelandic-Chinese artist grew up playing cello as well as piano and became hooked on the jazz standards of Ella Fitzgerald after digging through her father’s record collection.
In 2020, while still a student at Berklee College of Music, Laufey released her debut single ‘Street by Street’, which went on to top the Icelandic radio charts. Following the release of her Typical of Me EP, Laufey was named Best New Artist in Jazz and Blues at the Icelandic Music Awards and hosted her own show on BBC Radio 3/BBC Sounds. Everything I Know About Love, debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Alternative New Artist Album chart, and the lead single “Valentine” peaked at #1 on the Spotify Jazz Chart. In 2022 Laufey was the most streamed jazz artist on Spotify, with 425 million streams across all platforms.
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LAUFEY
Debut Australian Shows
PRESENTED BY FRONTIER TOURING
JUN 8 | OXFORD ART FACTORY – SYDNEY, NSW
JUN 9 | HOWLER – MELBOURNE, VIC
JUN 10 | HOWLER – MELBOURNE, VIC
INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES
May 30, 2023—Manila—The Filinvest Tent *
May 31, 2023—Taipei—Clapper Studio *
June 2, 2023—Jakarta—Java Jazz Festival
June 3, 2023—Singapore—Alex Blake Charlie Sessions *
June 5, 2023—Tokyo—Blue Note Tokyo (Two shows) *
June 26, 2023—Ottawa, CA—Ottawa Jazz Festival
July 8, 2023—Ghent, BE—Gent Jazz Festival
July 9, 2023—Rotterdam, NL—North Sea Jazz Festival
July 13, 2023—Elstree, UK—Home Farm Glamping
July 15, 2023—Pori, FI—Pori Jazz
August 2, 2023—Caroga Lake, NY—Caroga Lake Music Festival
August 26, 2023—Port Townsend, WA—THING
September 16, 2023—Los Angeles, CA—The Ford *†
* SOLD OUT
† with Los Angeles Philharmonic
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