Laufey

I guess, I mean, I grew up in Iceland, so I just wasn't very close to that culture.

We had our own smaller festivals.

I learned a couple of things.

I think like hard work is really, really important and it's something you need to keep up.

I mean, my mom has been in the orchestra for almost 30 years and she still practices every single day for every single concert.

It's not something you shelve after you grow up.

But it also has taught me that it's something that never really leaves you.

Growing up in a musical family, I mean, my grandma's

80 something now and she still plays piano every single day just like as she did when she was seven so it's taught me that it's kind of this thing that can follow you forever but my mom always talked about especially like the beauty of music and and how it has to come from your heart and I think that's been such an important through line with with my music no matter what genre it's leaning towards did you grow up backstage I

Oh, absolutely.

I grew up on stage.

I think I have stories of my mom playing some contemporary Icelandic composers and it was really loud and every break she would like check her tummy.

Like I have a twin sister.

So the two of us were in there and she was like, are they still moving?

Did we silence them?

Every single day.

Really?

Not from another room.

The same room.

It was like having a teacher every single day.