Extended Interview: Laufey
CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley
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4.3 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Icelandic singer and instrumentalist Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir, who records under the name Laufey, talks with "Sunday Morning" correspondent Tracy Smith about the ambiguity she finds while composing music. She also discusses going viral during the COVID pandemic by posting her performances of jazz standards online; the blurring of genres; and becoming a bridge for younger audiences to explore traditional jazz and classical, as she records music while playing piano, guitar and cello. She also performs "Dreamer," from her album "Bewitched."
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| 0:57.0 | Guitar is where you actually put together the songs, pick out the songs. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah, I like writing on guitar. I think it's because it's the instrument I know the least, |
| 1:07.0 | so I don't overthink the chords too much. Like, I just think about the melody and I can also hear myself when I'm singing. |
| 1:16.4 | Sometimes with piano it's like I know too, like I know too many of the chord combinations. |
| 1:21.3 | I just like go back to old habits. |
| 1:23.1 | Whereas with guitar I just, I don't know. |
| 1:26.6 | It's fun to sing guitar and play guitar at the same time. |
| 1:29.6 | It's like a really good combination. |
| 1:32.0 | It's interesting that you write the songs on the instrument |
| 1:35.1 | that you're least comfortable playing. |
| 1:37.5 | Yeah, it is interesting. |
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