Laufey Trivia
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49 free Laufey trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Laufey trivia quiz covers the singer, cellist and songwriter from Reykjavík who has become the face of jazz for a new generation. It starts with her family — a Chinese violinist mother, an Icelandic father, a violin-professor grandfather and an identical twin who is her creative director — and follows her through the Iceland Symphony Orchestra at fifteen, Ísland Got Talent, The Voice Iceland, and the presidential scholarship to Berklee. Then come the records: the dorm-room EP Typical of Me, the debut Everything I Know About Love, the Grammy-winning Bewitched and its runaway single 'From the Start', the Goddess Edition, and A Matter of Time with Aaron Dessner, which won her a second Grammy. There are also questions on her influences (Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Taylor Swift), the 'Laufeycore' fashion aesthetic, the BBC Radio 3 show, Fortnite, Coachella and the Order of the Falcon. Some questions any fan will get; a few are for people who know the liner notes. No lyrics are quoted. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and each question carries a citation to the page it came from.
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Q 01Laufey was born in 1999 in which Nordic capital?
Reykjavík
Reykjavík. She still records there: the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, with which she first appeared as a soloist at 15, plays on her third album.
Q 02Laufey's Chinese grandparents spoke Cantonese; which southern city is her mother's family from?
Guangzhou
Guangzhou. Laufey does not speak Cantonese herself, and says she really misses the food there, dim sum included.
Q 03Laufey's grandfather Lin Yaoji taught which instrument at China's Central Conservatory of Music?
Violin
Violin. One of her earliest memories is of him giving her a toy-sized one; she moved on to other instruments, but her twin sister stayed with his.
Q 04What is the name of Laufey's identical twin sister, who works as her creative director?
Júnía
Júnía. She shapes the look of everything from album covers to music videos, tours with her sister and now and then steps out on stage beside her.
Q 05Laufey spent childhood summers studying music at a conservatory in which Chinese city?
Beijing
Beijing. Her grandfather had taught at the Central Conservatory there, and she credits those disciplined summers of daily practice for the stamina she now relies on on stage.
Q 06With which Grammy-winning singer-pianist did Laufey record the 2023 holiday EP Christmas with You?
Norah Jones
Norah Jones. Two decades earlier her own debut had drawn the same is-it-really-jazz arguments that would later follow Laufey.
Q 07At 15, Laufey made her solo debut with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra playing which instrument?
Cello
Cello. She had taken it up at eight, four years after the piano, and she plays it at her own shows, where one reviewer heard the crowd scream for the cello solos.
Q 08Laufey was a finalist on the 2014 edition of which Icelandic TV show?
Ísland Got Talent
Ísland Got Talent. A year later she was the youngest contestant yet on Iceland's version of The Voice; she won neither, and has said it stung to watch rivals move on to bigger things.
Q 09Before choosing music school, Laufey and her twin were both accepted to which Scottish university?
St Andrews
St Andrews. Her twin took up the place and graduated from the Scottish university, while Laufey gambled on music even though, she has admitted, she was far from sure anything would come of it.
Q 10Laufey graduated in 2021 from which Boston institution?
Berklee
Berklee. It was the only music college she applied to, and she went on its Presidential Scholarship after very nearly choosing a conventional university degree instead.
Q 11What was Laufey's debut single, released in April 2020?
Street by Street
Street by Street. She recorded it in a classmate's dorm room on her last day on campus before the pandemic closed it, uploaded it herself, and saw it reach number one on Icelandic radio.
Q 12What is the title of Laufey's debut EP, released in 2021?
Typical of Me
Typical of Me. It holds only seven songs, yet American Songwriter's staff named it among the best albums of 2021.
Q 13Which singer joined Laufey on the 2023 single 'A Night to Remember'?
Beabadoobee
Beabadoobee. Laufey, who had so often written about being turned down, said the pair wanted to flip that story and show 'a kind of sexier, moodier side'.
Q 21Which song was the lead single from Laufey's 2022 debut album?
Valentine
Valentine. She wrote it on Valentine's Day, half as a joke, and posted it online; the response persuaded her to finish and release it.
Q 22Laufey's 2024 concert film, shown in IMAX cinemas, captured her orchestral show at which famous outdoor venue?
Hollywood Bowl
Hollywood Bowl. Reviewing the show, one critic noted that her audiences were almost entirely under 30, many of them dressed in imitation of Laufey herself.
Q 23At which California festival did Laufey perform in April 2025, a year before returning for a second appearance?
Coachella
Coachella. She used her first appearance there to sing a brand-new single in public for the first time, less than two weeks after releasing it.
Q 14Which pop star was among the famous early fans of Laufey's debut EP?
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish. Willow Smith was another: Laufey caught both stars' attention with the songs and jazz covers she posted online during the pandemic, around the time of her first EP.
Q 15With which company did Laufey sign her first recordings deal, in 2021?
AWAL
AWAL. She stayed with the distributor through three albums and two Grammys, putting the last one out on her own Vingolf imprint, before moving to a major-label group in 2026.
Q 16In 2021 Laufey hosted a weekly show called Happy Harmonies on which station?
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3. The station handed the weekly series to a singer who was still a college student, to choose mood-lifting songs from every genre, not just the classical music it is known for.
Q 17Which London ensemble collaborated with Laufey on 'Let You Break My Heart Again'?
The Philharmonia Orchestra
The Philharmonia Orchestra. She called the single the most exciting project of her life, and the orchestra came back to play on tracks for her Grammy-winning second album.
Q 18Laufey's December 2021 duet 'Love To Keep Me Warm' was recorded with which singer?
Dodie
Dodie. The two had first sung the old winter standard together online a year earlier, and Laufey counted the English singer among her musical heroes.
Q 19Laufey made her US network TV debut on which show in January 2022?
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Jimmy Kimmel Live! She had no album to promote: the booking came nine months after a seven-song EP and seven months before her first full-length record.
Q 20What is the title of Laufey's debut album, released in August 2022?
Everything I Know About Love
Everything I Know About Love. She has called it her hopelessly romantic record: the songs come from her own life, she said, but are written as though they were fiction.
Q 24What did Laufey share with fans shortly before releasing her album Bewitched?
The sheet music
The sheet music. She had tried the idea with her debut album a year earlier, 'leaking' the scores to fans who agreed to pre-save the record.
Q 25Bewitched won which award at the 66th Grammys in 2024?
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. She collected it at the premiere ceremony before the main show, where she also performed, and two years later A Matter of Time won her the same prize again.
Q 26At the 2024 Grammys, Laufey played in the band as which veteran star performed a new single?
Billy Joel
Billy Joel. The song, 'Turn the Lights Back On', was his first new material since 2007, and the night was his first on the Grammys stage in more than twenty years.
Q 27Which Bewitched single became Laufey's first song to enter international charts?
From the Start
From the Start. She wrote it in half an hour, and it passed a million streams within a day of release, three times her previous best.
Q 28Laufey's 2023 breakthrough hit borrows its breezy rhythm from which Brazilian style?
Bossa nova
Bossa nova. She names the style, and its great voice Astrud Gilberto, as a big influence on her second album, saying its half-spoken delivery suits her storytelling.
Q 29Who is Laufey's longtime co-writer and co-producer on Bewitched and A Matter of Time?
Spencer Stewart
Spencer Stewart. He has made all three of her studio albums with her, and she calls him her musical soulmate, someone who shares her obsession with jazz and classical music.
Q 30Bewitched entered Spotify's global album-debut chart at number two, behind a record released the same day by which pop star?
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo. Her blockbuster Guts came out on 8 September 2023 as well, yet Bewitched still logged the biggest opening day for a jazz album in Spotify's history.