6 Best Moments From Laufey’s Opening Night Show at L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena: Surprise Hozier Duet, Swinging Jazz & More

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For each she has achieved, you person the consciousness that Laufey, conscionable 26, is inactive climbing.

9/27/2025

Laufey performs onstage with FIJI Water astatine A Very Laufey Day 2025 astatine Los Angeles Grand Park connected August 24, 2025 successful Los Angeles, California.

Laufey opened a two-night basal astatine Crypto.com Arena successful downtown Los Angeles connected Friday (Sept. 26) with a amusement that captured her unsocial spot successful popular — her euphony is rooted successful jazz, but her performance has pop-superstar accumulation values.

The A Matter of Time Tour, the Icelandic singer-songwriter’s 3rd circuit and her archetypal that consists wholly of arena dates, began connected Sept. 15 successful Orlando. It volition reason successful Kópavogur, Iceland, connected March 15, 2026.

Laufey (it’s pronounced LAY-vay, for those inactive catching up to her) won a Grammy for champion accepted popular vocal medium successful 2024 for her sophomore album, Bewitched, and she could beryllium headed for different triumph successful that class connected Feb. 1 for her 3rd album, A Matter of Time. The medium entered the Billboard 200 astatine No. 4. It has topped Billboard’s Jazz Albums illustration for the past 4 weeks. (Bewitched logged 102 weeks astatine No. 1 connected that chart.)

For each she has achieved, you person the consciousness that, Laufey, conscionable 26, is inactive climbing. She has immoderate large looks upcoming. She whitethorn good onshore a show slot connected the Grammy telecast – it would beryllium her archetypal prima crook connected Music’s Biggest Night. (She performed “From the Start,” a opus from Bewitched, connected the 2024 Premiere Ceremony, which is streaming-only, and backed Billy Joel during his show-closing show connected that year’s telecast. Also, she is acceptable to play the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival connected Apr 19. She has said she would similar to grounds a James Bond taxable song, which seems inevitable, which could bring successful a show connected the Oscar telecast. Are we getting up of ourselves? Perhaps, but it’s beauteous wide to spot the vocation way she’s on.

Laufey didn’t get wherever she is by reasoning small. In 2023, she told RUSSH that Taylor Swift is her favourite existent artist. The crushed she gave for that prime spoke to her ambitions: “She has done for popular and state what I anticipation to bash for jazz. She has managed to unite radical crossed the satellite which is 1 of my main goals arsenic a musician.”

Laufey’s prime of opening enactment for her tour’s North American limb — English pop/rock creator Suki Waterhouse — besides spoke to her popular ambitions.

In 2022, erstwhile Laufey archetypal headlined successful L.A., she played the legendary but comparatively tiny Troubadour. Her maturation since past tin beryllium seen successful her bookings: In November 2023, she played 2 nights astatine the Theatre astatine the Ace Hotel. On her instrumentality successful August 2024, she played the Hollywood Bowl. This time, it was a sold-out, two-night basal astatine Crypto.

Here are the six champion moments from Laufey’s opening nighttime amusement astatine Crypto.com Arena.