When Laufey was seven years old, she would sit beneath her mother’s piano in Reykjavík, quietly tracing melodies with her fingers in the air while her twin sister practiced cello. Her mother, a classical violinist from China, and her Icelandic father filled the house with Bach and Ella Fitzgerald — two worlds that didn’t seem to belong together until Laufey tried to make them. One day, after being teased in school for preferring “old people’s music,” she came home in tears. Instead of telling he