Laufey
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Umbrella
4.6 • 69.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Laufey (A Matter of Time, Mei Mei the Bunny, and Bewitched) is a two-time Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Laufey joins Armchair Expert in between Coachella performances to discuss growing up between Iceland and the US with a violinist mother in the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, how having an identical twin helped shape her sense of self, and navigating her identity as a biracial kid in a homogenous society. Laufey and Dax talk about the discipline of classical music training at Berklee, building a fanbase during COVID through her Sunday livestreams and vintage jazz-inspired covers, and why she believes general admission is the best way to experience Coachella. Laufey explains how discipline should be about building habits rather than winning, how choice can be more overwhelming than limitation, and how vulnerability is the real key to connection - both onstage and off.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm Dak Shepard. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm joined by Monica Padman. |
| 0:05.1 | Hi there. |
| 0:05.8 | Hi, today we have Lave. |
| 0:08.7 | Yes. |
| 0:10.0 | We have Lave. |
| 0:10.4 | She is a two-time Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter. |
| 0:13.8 | And what was so special is we got her right between her two performances at Coachella. |
| 0:18.1 | I know. |
| 0:18.6 | We got her like right off the presses. |
| 0:22.3 | So we got to hear about how that first experience went. Yes. And then added bonus, she brought her identical twin |
| 0:28.8 | sister. Oh, it was so fun. We love twins. We love twins. We have twin experts just coming on. I mean, |
| 0:34.2 | it's really in the zeit guysist. Her album's Everything I Know |
| 0:37.6 | About Love, Bewitched, A Matter of Time, and a new deluxe album out now, a matter of time, |
| 0:44.4 | The Final Hour. She also has a children's book out now called May May the Bunny, which |
| 0:51.1 | you'll hear about. Yeah, May May gets a little nervous before a big performance. |
| 0:54.2 | Of course she does. |
| 0:55.4 | Please enjoy Lave. |
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