3.  Some of the more famous Icelandic bands are : Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson  Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir  Atli Heimir Sveinsson  Atli Örvarsson  Barði Jóhannson

4.  Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson born 22 September 1976 is a founding member of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He was the band's drummer from their creation in August 1994 until he quit in 1999 after the band finished Ágætis byrjun. Orri Pál Dýrason took his place as drummer. The group became internationally popular with their subsequent albums (2002) and Takk… (2005). He went on to study graphic design.

5.  Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir born 28 July 1982 is an Icelandic singer and actress.  She was a member of the band, Ske, and in 2005 began her solo career. She is best known for her portrayal of the controversial character Silvía Night.

6.  Atli Heimir Sveinsson (born 1938) is an Icelandic composer.  Atli Heimir was born in Reykjavík, Iceland and started piano lessons at the age of 10. He studied piano with Rögnvaldur Sigurjónsson at the Reykjavík College of Music and took his diploma in 1957.

7.  Atli Örvarsson Icelandic pronunciationborn 7 July 1970 is an Icelandic film score composer. Atli's credits include composing and orchestrating music for some of Hollywood's biggest projects, including the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Angels and Demons, The Holiday, The Eagle, Vantage Point, Babylon A.D., Thick as Thieves, The Fourth Kind, and Season of the Witch. Atli's most recent credits include The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters, A Single Shot, NBC series Chicago Fire, and together with Hans Zimmer contributed music to the Zack Snyder Superman reinstallment Man of Steel.

8.  Barði Jóhannsson born 10 September 1975 is an Icelandic rock musician, film composer, writer, TV show host of surrealist Icelandic TV show Konfekt, author, clothing designer, short film director and more. He is mostly known for his work with Bang Gang who have released three albums to date, and are working on a fourth, Lady & Bird, a side project alongside French artist Keren Ann and a new project with Jean-Benoît Dunckel Air, Tomorrow's World called Starwalker

9.  Barði Jóhannsson born 10 September 1975) is an Icelandic rock musician, film composer, writer, TV show host (of surrealist Icelandic TV show Konfekt, author, clothing designer, short film director and more. He is mostly known for his work with Bang Gang who have released three albums to date, and are working on a fourth), Lady & Bird, a side project alongside French artist Keren Ann and a new project with Jean-Benoît Dunckel Air, Tomorrow's World called Starwalker

10.  Lofsöngur, also known as " Ó Guð vors lands " ("O, God of Our Land"), is the national anthem of Iceland. The lyrics are by Matthías Jochumsson and the music by Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson. The anthem contains three stanzas, but only the first one is commonly sung.  The melody might be considered difficult to sing, as it requires a vocal range of a minor fourteenth. That the anthem is essentially a hymn has been the subject of controversy in recent times 

11.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fk bXTDzKBc

12.  Icelandic music has a very long tradition, with some songs still sung today dating from 14th century. Folk songs are often about love, sailors, masculinity, hard winters, as well as elves, trolls and other mythological creatures, and tend to be quite secular and often humorous

13.  This is an example of Icelandic folk music by Tyrkjaránid.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k- _lQ1UQoyU

14.  sigur rós is a famous pop artist.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_ DQKCDgeM

15.  The fiðla is a traditional Icelandic musical instrument, consisting of a box zither with two bowed strings. The strings pass over a bridge near the playing end of the instrument, and are tuned at the other end by two tuning pegs.

16.  The Langspil is a traditional Icelandic drone zither. Since old folk music has been gaining more popularity in recent years, more and more people are able to play this instrument. And since it only has 1 melody string with 1 to 5 drone strings it is easy to learn to play it compared with more complicated instruments.  The langspil can be played by plucking the strings by hand, with a bow or by hammering

18.  I don’t really like Icelandic music if I was honest as it sounds sad and some of the songs are very long.