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When I first started talking about Icelandic Week, Intern Six (aka Liz Mullins) insisted that I include an Emiliana Torrini song, which reminded me that Torrini is actually Icelandic . . . Here’s her bio from

Emilíana Torrini is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, born on 16 May 1977 in Kópavogur, Iceland. Her full name is Emilíana Torrini Davíðsdóttir. She is best known for her 2009 single “Jungle Drum,” for the closing theme entitled Gollum���Ĵ�ý�s Song of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers film, and for her international debut album, _Love in the Time of Science. _

Her father is Italian and her mother Icelandic. Emilíana grew up in Kópavogur, where at the age of 7, she joined a choir as a soprano, until she went to opera school at the age of 15. Later she worked as waitress at her father���Ĵ�ý�s restaurant from Iceland. In 1994, Emilíana became well-known in Iceland after winning the song competition of junior colleges in Iceland (Icelandic: Söngkeppni framhaldsskólanna), at the age of 17, singing ���Ĵ�ý�I Will Survive���Ĵ�ý�.

Torrini’s Me and Armini is a very sweet album, with a number of catchy pop song, like the aforementioned and the incessantly bouncy But instead of going with one of those, I decided to play my favorite song from her album, the more spooky “Gun.”