Born to an Italian father and an Icelandic mother, singer Emilíana Torrini was
born in Kópavogur on May 16, 1977. She studied at the Reykjavik Opera School and
sang in a choir as a teenager, before embarking on a musical career. After
winning a competition in 1994 for her beautiful soprano voice, the Icelandic
singer went on to perform with the group GusGus and record three folk, pop and
electronic albums with local distribution, before achieving wider success with
her next album, Love in the Time of Science (1999), whose track "Gollum's Song "
was chosen as the closing credits f...