Emilíana Torrini

Born to an Italian father and an Icelandic mother, singer Emilíana Torrini was born in Kópavogur on May 16, 1977. She studied at the Reykjavik Opera School and sang in a choir as a teenager, before embarking on a musical career. After winning a competition in 1994 for her beautiful soprano voice, the Icelandic singer went on to perform with the group GusGus and record three folk, pop and electronic albums with local distribution, before achieving wider success with her next album, Love in the Time of Science (1999), whose track "Gollum's Song " was chosen as the closing credits for Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Emilíana Torrini continues in an electro-jazz vein on Fisherman's Woman (2005) and mixes trip-hop and folk on Me and Armini (2008) and Tookah (2013), separated in 2010 by the early years compilation Rarities. In 2016, she touched up her repertoire live with Belgian string ensemble The Colorist(The Colorist and Emilíana Torrini), then collaborated with Kid Koala on Music to Draw To: Satellite (2017). She returned to The Colorist in 2023 for Racing the Storm, followed by Miss Flower (2024), this time solo.