Daði Freyr

Daði Freyr Pétursson, born on June 30, 1992 in Reykjavík, Iceland, is an Icelandic musician and singer of electro-pop. He became famous through his performance at the Eurovision Song Contest with his group Daði & Gagnamagnið with the song “Think About Things”.

Career

Turquoise sweaters, unconventional dance steps, multifunctional keyboards keyboards and lots of humor – that’s how Daði & Gagnamagnið will win hearts at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.

Daði Freyr Pétursson is the frontman of this quirky band. Born in Reykjavík in 1992, he spent a large part of his early childhood in Denmark before returning to Iceland with his family at the age of nine, where he played in a rock cover band with his school friends. But he soon swapped the riffs of Cream and Nirvana for electronic instruments and founded the electropop band RetRoBot in 2012. In 2012, the year he graduated from school, he won the prestigious Icelandic young talent competition Músíktilraunir with the band, following in the footsteps of Agent Fresco, Of Monsters And Men and Samaris. Daði himself is voted best electronic musician of the year.

Daði moved to Berlin in 2014, where he completed his studies in music management and audio production four years later and laid the foundations for his subsequent solo career. For his first participation in the Icelandic ESC preliminary competition Söngvakeppnin, he gathers friends and family (including his wife Árný Fjóla Ásmundsdóttir and his sister Sigrún Birna Pétursdóttir) for a joint performance under the banner Gagnamagnið.

In 2017, their song “Is This Love?” was defeated by the competition. In 2020, things went much better in the same constellation and with the number “Think About Things”. The track, which they created themselves in their home studio in Berlin, collects several million streams and will compete for Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest. The Covid-19 pandemic initially prevented this and the event was canceled.

Daði & Gagnamagnið get another chance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam – but they are once again plagued by bad luck: Due to a positive corona test result for band member Jóhann Sigurður Jóhannsson, the band withdrew their live performance. Instead, a recording of the rehearsal was shown in the semi-final and final. Despite the competitive disadvantage, Daði og Gagnamagnið came fourth in Rotterdam and celebrated in their hotel room.

Studio albums by Daði Freyr

• 2019 & Co.
• 2023 I Made An Album