CULTURE
Icelandic singers take stage at Baku Crystal Hall
Baku, May 23 (AZERTAC). Icelandic representatives Greta Salome and Jonsi have taken the stage at the first semifinal of the Eurovision-2012 song contest at the Baku Crystal Hall.
The Icelandic singers performed Never forget.
Iceland is represented in Baku by Greta Salome, a multi talented singer/songwriter and Jonsi, who himself returns to the Eurovision Song Contest stage eight years after representing his country in 2004 in Istanbul.
Greta Salome Stefansdottir was born in 1986. Music runs in the family as her mother Kristin Lilliendahl made some records in her teens, and her grandfather Karl Lilliendahl was a guitarist and renowned bandleader. Greta began her violin studies in 1991 when she was only four years old and has never looked back. At thirteen she entered Reykjavik College of Music. In the autumn of 2004 she was accepted into the Iceland Academy of Arts, where she continued her studies. She graduated with a bachelor`s degree in 2008. Currently she`s working on her master`s degree at the Iceland Academy of Arts and is studying advanced vocal technique called Complete Vocal.