Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir (born 23 April 1999), known mononymously as Laufey, is an Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter and musician. She rose to prominence in the early 2020s for her success as a jazz-inspired pop artist.
Having performed as a cello soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at age 15, Laufey was a finalist in the 2014 edition of Ísland Got Talent [is] (Iceland's Got Talent), and a semi-finalist on The Voice Iceland the following year. She released her debut EP, Typical of Me (2021), and graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Her debut album, Everything I Know About Love (2022), charted in Iceland and the United States. Its follow-up, Bewitched (2023), won Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards (2024) and its single "From the Start" found moderate chart success in Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Laufey Lín Bīng Jónsdóttir was born on 23 April 1999 in Reykjavík, Iceland's capital. Her father is Icelandic and her mother is Chinese, hailing from Guangzhou. Her mother is a classical violinist and her maternal grandfather, Lin Yaoji [zh], was a violin educator at the Central Conservatory of Music in China, which Laufey credits as partly inspiring her love of music. She has an identical twin sister named Júnía Lín Jónsdóttir, who is a violinist and serves as her creative director. She lived in Washington, D.C., for two years and then moved back to Reykjavík in 2008, where she studied at Háteigsskóli. Laufey started learning the piano at the age of four and the cello at the age of eight. She graduated from the Reykjavík College of Music, where she also studied singing, in 2018. She spent her childhood moving between Reykjavík and Washington, D.C., as well as visiting Beijing.
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