{"id":287446,"date":"2011-10-11T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/10\/11\/emiliana-torrini-gun-icelandic-music\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:16:55","slug":"emiliana-torrini-gun-icelandic-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/10\/11\/emiliana-torrini-gun-icelandic-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Emiliana Torrini, &#34;Gun&#34; [Icelandic Music]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s her bio from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Emil%C3%ADana+Torrini\">Last.fm:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Emil\u00edana Torrini is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, born on 16 May 1977 in K\u00f3pavogur, Iceland. Her full name is Emil\u00edana Torrini Dav\u00ed\u00f0sd\u00f3ttir. She is best known for her 2009 single &#8220;Jungle Drum,&#8221; for the closing theme entitled Gollum\u2019s Song of <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers<\/em> film, and for her international debut album, _Love in the Time of Science. _<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Her father is Italian and her mother Icelandic. Emil\u00edana grew up in K\u00f3pavogur, 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\u2019s restaurant from Iceland. In 1994, Emil\u00edana became well-known in Iceland after winning the song competition of junior colleges in Iceland (Icelandic: S\u00f6ngkeppni framhaldssk\u00f3lanna), at the age of 17, singing \u201cI Will Survive\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Torrini&#8217;s <em>Me and Armini<\/em> is a very sweet album, with a number of catchy pop song, like the aforementioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iZ9vkd7Rp-g\">Jungle Drum,<\/a> and the incessantly bouncy <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/_CF7sER73TY\">Big Jumps.<\/a> But instead of going with one of those, I decided to play my favorite song from her album, the more spooky &#8220;Gun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QOLCXPRg650\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s her bio from Last.fm: Emil\u00edana Torrini is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, born on 16 May 1977 in K\u00f3pavogur, Iceland. Her full name is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[43096,43106,43086,42996,43116],"class_list":["post-287446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-emiliana-torrini","tag-gun","tag-icelandic-music","tag-icelandic-week","tag-me-and-armini"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342756,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287446\/revisions\/342756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}