Emilíana Torrini Davíðsdóttir (born 16 May, 1977) is an Icelandic singer, best known for her worldwide debut album, Love in the Time of Science. Early life Emilíana grew up in Kópavogur, where at the age of 7, joined a choir as a soprano, until she went to opera school at the age of 15. In 1994, she became well-known in Iceland after winning the song competition of junior colleges in Iceland (Icelandic: Söngkeppni framhaldsskólanna), at the age of 17, singing "I Will Survive". Her father is Italian and her mother Icelandic, with whom she grew up in Iceland. Her father owns and operates a well-known Italian restaurant in Iceland, and many Icelanders first remember her as a young waitress. Music career From 1994 to 1996 she released three albums in Iceland, Spoon (with a band of the same name), Crouçie d'Où La, and Merman. But she gained fame only in 1999 with Love

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