BEFORE returning to the Java Jazz Festival stage, next May, the Grammy award-winning musician, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Laufey, announced the album Bewitched: The Goddess Edition, which is an expansion edition of the album Bewitched, which he released in 2023.
The album Bewitched: The Goddess Edition will be released on April 26 via AWAL and will feature four new songs that Laufey wrote shortly after she finished the Bewitched album.
About the single Goddess, Laufey said, “Goddess is the most honest song I’ve written so far. I wrote it alone at the piano after I realized that someone had fallen in love with the version of me they saw on stage, and it turned out I wasn’t who they were expect when I get off the stage. That person feels that I’m not an attractive person when all my glamor is removed, and only me is left.”
Laufey, currently, is on her Bewitched: The Goddess Tour in Europe, all tickets for which are sold out. He will then head to North America in April, before finally appearing at the Java Jazz Festival 2024 in May in Jakarta, when he will be the main performer at the 19th edition of the legendary music festival.
Laufey will also appear with the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert entitled A Night At The Symphony for two nights in Manila, Philippines.
2023 will be an important year in the career development of this Chinese Icelandic singer. His Bewitched album became the jazz album with the biggest debut numbers on Spotify in history.
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The album debuted at #2 on the Spotify Global chart and US Albums chart, #23 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, #1 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart, and #1 on the Current Traditional Jazz Albums chart.
The single From The Start from that album has also received Gold certification. Laufey’s hard work for the album Bewitched reached its peak with its win at this year’s Grammy awards. He managed to bring home a Grammy trophy in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category.
Laufey also performed From The Start at the Grammy Premiere Ceremony. Apart from that, he also collaborated with Billy Joel on stage to play Billy Joel’s single Turn The Lights Back On with Laufey playing the cello.
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Laufey is currently based in Los Angeles. Growing up, Laufey spent time between the cities of Reykjavík, Iceland and Washington DC, United States, and often visited Beijing, China every year.
Laufey released his first single, Street by Street in 2020 while he was still a student at Berklee College of Music. The single successfully topped the radio charts in Iceland.
In 2022, he released his first full studio album Everything I Know About Love which successfully reached #1 on the Billboard Alternative New Artist Album chart.
The single Valentine from the album successfully occupied the #1 position on the Spotify Jazz chart.
Currently, Laufey has successfully collected more than 1.7 billion streams on various platforms and is an Icelandic musician with the largest streaming figures in the world. (RO/Z-1)
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