Laufey

I would practice piano while my sister was practicing violin.

And then we would swap and she would practice piano and I would practice cello.

And my mom spent the entire afternoon just drifting back and forth from the piano room to the string room to the piano room to the string room.

and it was very disciplined, but I'm so thankful for that, and my mom still tells me if I'm playing out of tune, and I'm so thankful for that, and I think it's one of the reasons I'm the musician I am today.

I think Ella Fitzgerald was the very first singer that I really felt that I vocally resonated with.

I think she just sounded like a cello.

So I immediately was like, oh, I want to sound like her.

And I was having trouble finding songs in my range to sing.

But Ella's range, though bigger than mine still, her singing style, I seemed to

fall most naturally into that kind of style um same with Billie Holiday and I also loved Nat King Cole and and um Julie London and Peggy Lee and Doris Day it was kind of you know that that type of era of mid-century singing that I really was drawn to

Yes.

COVID started and I had what I thought would be a two-week break.

So I thought I'd use that time to just post videos of myself singing online.

And it started with a lot of jazz standards.

And I was playing the jazz standards on cello and singing along.

And yeah, I did a cover of It Could Happen to You and also of the song I Wish You Love and the two of those kind of

hit the algorithm or whatever you say they kind of definitely were the first things that I think people were like what why is this girl this young woman playing cello and singing it was like multiple things they hadn't seen combined together yeah and Chet Baker has a great recording of this yes yeah that's my favorite Chet Baker album the it could happen to you one so okay and this is Levee

Hide your heart from sight Lock your dreams at night It could happen to you Don't count stars or you might stumble Someone drops a sigh and down you tumble Keep an eye on spring

From when church bells ring, it could happen to you.

All I did was wonder how your arms would be.