The Icelandic-Chinese Grammy winner talks about daring to go where she once wouldn’t in her new album, and her aim to empower Asian artists
Long before the Icelandic-Chinese artist Laufey became recognised the world over for her neoclassical-jazz-meets-pop music, she was a student answering a familiar yearbook prompt: “Where do you see yourself in 10 years?”
Her answer: move to the United States, sign a record deal and win a Grammy. The 26-year-old has done all three.
“I must have been so confident to write that because I remember that being a very far-sought kind of thing,” the musician born Laufey Lin Jonsdottir says.
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