Picked up eight songs and then lost the voice
The fifth song on the first album of the Text Workshop and songwriter John Stefán Ólafsson, Supreme Court Attorney, is expected at the Spotify streaming band in early March, but it is planned that all eight songs will be in the spring and then the vinyl record will be available.
« I was paralyzed last December 1, only three days after recording the song in the song » Sit with me « which I wrote to my wife Sigrún, but then I had fortunately finished recording the other seven songs off the album from the album Oak in the snow« He says.
Music has followed John since childhood. He started playing the piano early and soon he added the guitar. « I played in bands and appeared in many places; in bars, in weddings and beyond, but never published anything, « he recalls, but the songs are on his pages on Facebook and Instagram.
Not the song to blame
John graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Iceland in 2008 and then the music went to work and family, whose wife is Sigrún Jóhannsdóttir, a lawyer and they have three children. « I was sick with the guitar, but then I stopped like screwed for cranes and as time went on it was harder to start again, » he says. For a long time it has begun to get over the threshold, but the desire has been much more stringent. « It took me about a month to sing and all of a sudden I jumped last year, drove full time and had the material on two albums in six months when my voice gave up. When I woke up on December 1, I couldn't speak. In the middle of the party I could just whisper. Boom. It was crazy. «
The voicelessness had nothing to do with the singing load, but it was a nervous voice in a voice and time was a coincidence. The voice has come gradually and John is optimistic that he will reach previous strength over time, preferably without action.
Further discussion can be found in Morgunblaðið which was published on Thursday 27 February.
