Laufey becomes the second Icelandic solo artist to win a GRAMMY
Laufey won a GRAMMY at the 66th Annual Awards for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her sophomore album Bewitched.
Laufey became the second Icelandic solo artist to win a GRAMMY, joining legend Hildur Guðnadóttir who’s taken the gramophone for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media home twice in 2020 for Chernobyl and 2021 for the Joker.
Laufey is the eighth Icelander to win a Grammy. Steinar Höskuldsson was the first Icelander to win a Grammy in 2003. He won two awards for his work on Noruh Jones' album, Come Away With Me. Dísella Lárusdóttir and Gunnar Guðbjörnsson both won Best Opera Recording, one in 2022 and the other in 2003. Sigurbjörn Bernharðsson won Best Chamber Music Performance with his quartet The Pacifica. Kristinn Sigmundsson sang in an opera that won Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording in 2017 and Tui Hirv won Best Choral Performance in 2014.
And now we have our eighth winner, Laufey with an award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Bewitched.
Björk was the first Icelandic artist to ever get nominated for a GRAMMY in 1994 but even with her 16 nominations she has yet to be awarded this great honour in the world of music. Other notable nominees from Iceland would be Sigur Rós for (), Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Jóhann Jóhannsson and Ólafur Arnalds.
Laufey thanks her team in her speech, but in particular gives a shout-out to the classical and jazz communities which she looks up to and her twin-sister Junia who is her Creative Director.