Laufey Feels Like She Was Born to Play the Hollywood Bowl, With a Rapturously Received Pop/Jazz/Classical Set: Concert Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic If a team of aesthetically attuned scientists was able to reverse-engineer the perfect Hollywood Bowl act, they might have come up with the 25-year-old Icelandic-Chinese-American sensation who goes by the singular name of Laufey.
No one would actually think to come up with such an impossible checklist, but she fulfills it anyway: A chanteuse who would have seemed at home on the same stage in the 1950s, yet who appeals to a young demographic in the 2020s.
A multi-instrumentalist with chops on electric guitar, piano and cello. A romantic with a great sense of swooniness that feels apropos for a summer date night.
And, maybe most importantly: plays well with Thomas Wilkins and woodwinds. Some are to the manor born; along those lines, Laufey is to the Bowl born.
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