Jökull Júlíusson

Artist

Birthday March 20, 1990

Birth Sign Pisces

Birthplace Reykjavík, Iceland

Age 33 years old

Nationality Iceland

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1990

Jökull Júlíusson (born 20 March 1990) is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of Kaleo.

2004

The family returned to Mosfellsbær in 2004 and he finished his primary school education at Varmárskóli, where he met his future bandmates Davíð Antonsson and Daníel Ægir Kristjánsson.

As a child, he learned the piano and taught himself to play the guitar.

An avid football fan, he played for Sindri Höfn, TRIF and Afturelding's youth teams until the age of 16.

After primary school, he founded the band Timburmenn along with Davíð Antonsson and Daníel Ægir Kristjánsson which performed mostly covers.

2009

In 2009, he participated in Músíktilraunir with the band St. Peter the Leader.

2012

In 2012, he founded Kaleo, along with Davíð, Daníel and Rubin Pollock, ahead of the Iceland Airwaves music festival.

2013

He gained national fame for covering the song "Vor í Vaglaskógi" with Kaleo in 2013.

Jökull was born in Reykjavík and spent his first years there and in Mosfellsbær.

At the age of six, he moved with his family to Höfn before moving to Denmark six years later.

2014

In 2014, he won the 2013 Icelandic Audience Award Singer of the Year.

2017

In 2017, he was admitted to hospital due to stress-related illness, forcing Kaleo to cancel several concerts.