Musicians
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Al Di Meola is an American guitarist who joined Chick Corea's Return to Forever in 1974 at the age of nineteen. His solo albums Elegant Gypsy and Casino became among the most influential records in jazz fusion. In 1980 he recorded Friday Night in San Francisco with John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía, an album that has sold in the millions. He won a Grammy Award with Return to Forever in 1976 and holds an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music.
Andrés Þór Gunnlaugsson is an Icelandic jazz guitarist who has worked in Iceland’s music scene with his own jazz groups and as an instrumentalist in recording studios, concert productions, and theatre. He began studying classical guitar before taking up electric guitar, completed the jazz programme at the FÍH School of Music in 1999, and then studied jazz guitar and music education at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. He has released albums both under his own name and in collaboration with other musicians. On Relocate, issued in 2026 by the Norwegian label Losen Records, he plays electric guitar, nylon-string acoustic guitar, and pedal steel guitar, with Nico Moreaux on double bass and Magnús Trygvason Elíassen on drums. Gunnlaugsson was named Hafnarfjörður’s Civic Artist in 2014.
Bjarni Sveinbjörnsson is an Icelandic bassist and music teacher whose work is chiefly associated with jazz and jazz rock. He first studied guitar and bass at Tónskóli Sigursveins, then continued bass studies at the FÍH music school. In 1985, he graduated in bass performance from the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles. He has worked professionally as a bassist for decades, appearing in concert and recording settings as well as teaching at music schools. Bjarni is the bassist in Gammar, a band that performs original jazz-rock music. His work with the group places him in projects where jazz, rock, and improvisation meet, and he has also performed with numerous Icelandic musicians. In 2009, he released his own album, About Time, made up of original material. The record includes compositions developed over an extended period and was his first solo release.
Björgvin Gíslason was an Icelandic guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. He began his band career in the mid-1960s and subsequently played with numerous groups, including Flamingo, Falcon, Zoo, Pops, Opus 4, and Náttúra. Known for his versatile guitar playing, he also performed on keyboards, piano, and sitar. Alongside his own releases, Gíslason worked in recording and arranging and contributed to a large number of Icelandic albums. His solo work appeared at different stages of his career, including Bio, Púnktur, Slettur, and Jarðarbunga. His work in rock, progressive music, and studios had a wide influence on Icelandic musical life.
Bjorn Thoroddsen is an Icelandic guitarist, composer, and producer whose work has moved between jazz, rock, and Icelandic music since the early 1980s. He graduated from the Musicians Institute in Los Angeles in 1982 and released Svif that same year, a recording described as a starting point for Icelandic jazz fusion. His career has included leading the fusion group Gammar as well as work in a wide range of ensembles and collaborations. Thoroddsen’s work brings together original music, arrangements, and collaborative playing. With Gunnar Þórðarson and Jón Rafnsson, he founded Guitar Islancio, a trio that recast Icelandic folk songs through jazz and earned a gold record. He has also performed with international guitarists and musicians, released solo work, and recorded Bjössi in Nashville. Thoroddsen founded the Icelandic Guitar Festival in 2007 and Guitarama in Canada in 2013, and has received Icelandic Music Awards for jazz performance and composition.
Brynhildur Oddsdóttir is a singer, electric guitarist, and songwriter best known for her work with Beebee and the Bluebirds. She founded the band in 2010 and performs its vocals and guitar parts. Descriptions of the group place its music at the intersection of soul, blues, funk, and rock, while Oddsdóttir has also written songs and lyrics for the project. With Beebee and the Bluebirds, she has performed at festivals including Iceland Airwaves and Reykjavík Guitarama. The band released the albums Burning Heart in 2014 and Out of the Dark in 2017. Oddsdóttir also played guitar in Spaðadrottningarnar, the all-women ensemble that accompanied Bubbi Morthens on his 2015 album 18 konur.
Bubbi Morthens is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, guitarist, and lyricist who has been one of the most influential voices in Icelandic rock since the late 1970s. He began writing and performing music at a young age and became known both as a solo artist and through bands. His lyrics have often addressed society, working life, and personal experience. Morthens was a member of Utangarðsmenn and later formed Egó, alongside a long solo career and work with several other groups. His releases span rock, blues, reggae, folk music, poetry, and other forms. His sustained work as a songwriter, performer, and writer has produced a large and varied catalogue of songs.
Börkur Hrafn Birgisson is an Icelandic musician, guitarist, songwriter, and recording producer. He is one of the three members of Mono Town, alongside Daði Birgisson and Bjarki Sigurðsson. In the group he plays guitar and contributes to songwriting; the band is known for English-language indie rock and performed at Iceland Airwaves in 2013. He is credited as a co-writer of Mono Town’s “Peacemaker,” from the album In the Eye of the Storm. Under his own name, he released the album Þriðja leiðin in 2006. Birgisson has also worked in recording, arranging, and production for other artists, including on Bubbi Morthens’s Stormurinn, where he also played electric guitar, sang backing vocals, and performed percussion.
Didier Lockwood was a French violinist and a leading pioneer of the electric violin in jazz. He played with the French band Magma during the 1970s and released his first solo album, New World, in 1979. He recorded more than twenty albums and paid tribute to his mentor Stéphane Grappelli with a record in 2000. In 2001 he founded the Centre des Musiques Didier Lockwood, a school near Paris dedicated to jazz and improvised music, where he taught violin and improvisation. The school continues his teaching legacy today.
Friðrik Karlsson is an Icelandic guitarist and composer who has worked professionally since his teens. He completed studies in classical guitar and jazz-rock guitar, and his playing combines technical range with a clear stylistic voice. He has worked both on his own music and as a sought-after session musician. Karlsson is known for his work with Mezzoforte, which achieved international success with Garden Party in 1983. Alongside his work with the group, he has contributed to recordings and concerts with many artists. His career connects Icelandic jazz fusion with international studio and live work.
Gunnar Þórðarson was an Icelandic guitarist, singer, and composer whose decades-long career encompassed rock, pop, film, and theatre music. He first became known with Hljómar and later worked with Trúbrot and Ríó Tríó, while also maintaining an extensive career as a songwriter and arranger for a wide range of artists and projects. In later years, Þórðarson also wrote orchestral and choral works and the opera Ragnheiður. His career crossed many musical styles and made him one of Iceland’s most prolific composers. His honours included the Icelandic Music Awards’ honorary award and recognition as Reykjavík City Artist.
Guðmundur Pétursson is an Icelandic guitarist and composer. He has worked both as a solo artist and alongside other performers and bands in Icelandic music. In his own work, he uses electric and acoustic guitars as well as other instruments and studio production. His music draws on several traditions rather than a single fixed style, with connections to rock, jazz, blues, synthesizer-based music, and more experimental sound worlds. His 2008 solo album Ologies brought together elements of rock, jazz, film music, world music, and unconventional music. In 2015, he released the instrumental album Sensus, on which he also played several instruments and handled technical work. He has also performed and recorded with artists including Bubbi Morthens, Megas, and Senuþjófarnir. The album Wandering Beings collects nine of his songs, including “The Road,” “Mercy,” and “Inside Blues.”
Halldór Snorri Bragason, widely known as Dóri, was an Icelandic blues guitarist and singer who helped lead the country’s blues scene for many years. He was involved in founding and building the Reykjavík Blues Festival, organised workshops and concerts, and worked with his groups Vinir Dóra and The Blue Ice Band. Dóri performed and recorded with Icelandic and international blues musicians and appeared at festivals on both sides of the Atlantic. He also played with Landsliðið, The Riot, Þrælarnir, Blúsboltarnir, and Big Nós Band. The Reykjavík Blues Society named him an honorary member in 2013 in recognition of his contribution to music and festival work.
Janne Schaffer is a Swedish guitarist and songwriter who has been one of the most prolific session musicians in the Nordic countries since the early 1970s. He is best known for his guitar work on ABBA's records, including Ring Ring, Waterloo, SOS, and Super Trouper. Alongside his studio work, Schaffer has sustained a long career under his own name. His 1973 debut album reached number one in Sweden, and he has since released many albums and worked with artists such as Bob Marley and Johnny Nash. He has played on well over five thousand recordings.
Jón Páll Bjarnason was a jazz guitarist and one of the pioneers of Icelandic modern jazz. He worked professionally from a young age, performed in Iceland and abroad, and was known for an exploratory approach to guitar playing and musical study. His career included periods in Denmark, Sweden, and the United States before he returned to Iceland. In later years, Bjarnason taught at the FÍH Music School and the Akranes Music School. He helped establish the Reykjavík Jazz Club and appeared on numerous recordings under his own name and with others. His 2002 collaboration 2 jazz gítarar with Ólafur Gaukur brought together two influential Icelandic jazz guitarists.
Jón Rafnsson (born 1958) is an Icelandic bass player, music teacher, and record publisher whose work encompasses electric bass and double bass in jazz, blues, rock, classical music, theatre, and dance-band settings. He is the founder and owner of JR Music and has worked in music since his teenage years. His career began in the mid-1970s, when he was self-taught on electric bass and guitar and played with rock and dance groups on Iceland’s south coast. That early practical ensemble experience became an important counterpart to his later work as a versatile accompanist, collaborator, and organiser of recording and performance projects. ([jrmusic.is](https://jrmusic.is/en/jon-rafnsson/um-jon-rafnsson/?utm_source=openai)) From 1976 to 1983, Rafnsson studied classical music at Sigursveinn D. Kristinsson’s School of Music, studying violin, piano, and double bass. He subsequently continued advanced double-bass study in Stockholm with Thorvald Fredin. He also earned a music-teaching qualification from Stockholms musikpedagogiska institut (SMI), with pedagogy and double bass among his principal subjects and additional study in choir and orchestra conducting. His education therefore joined instrumental training, a classical foundation, and pedagogical preparation. Since returning to Iceland from Sweden in 1990, he has combined performing with teaching at the Hafnarfjörður Music School. ([jrmusic.is](https://jrmusic.is/jon-rafnsson/um-jon-rafnsson/)) After returning to Iceland in 1990, Rafnsson became active across several parts of the country’s musical life. His published CV describes work in jazz, blues, rock, and classical music; with dance bands; and in theatre, both as a musical director and instrumentalist. It also credits him with playing on numerous recordings. His selected-recordings list documents work with Guitar Islancio, DJÄSS, Delizie Italiane, and the Svare/Thoroddsen Trio, as well as recordings involving singers and performers including Andrea Gylfadóttir, Kristjana Arngrímsdóttir, Thor Breiðfjörð, Margrét Eir, and Anna Pálína Árnadóttir. This recorded output places him in a continuing bass-player role across many kinds of repertoire and ensembles rather than in a single permanent band. ([jrmusic.is](https://jrmusic.is/jon-rafnsson/helstu-hljodritanir/)) A major part of Rafnsson’s career is Guitar Islancio, the trio he founded in 1998 with guitarists Bjorn Thoroddsen and Gunnar Thórdarson. The group has worked with folk songs sung and played across generations, using improvisation to give concise melodies a contemporary character while retaining their connection to Icelandic cultural heritage. Rafnsson’s double bass is part of the trio texture in which guitars and bass shape harmony and pulse. Releases involving him include the first three Guitar Islancio albums, Scandinavian Songs, Icelandic Folk, Best of, and the 2017 collection Þjóðlög / Folksongs / Volkslieder. The project also issued a music book containing arrangements of 22 Icelandic folk songs. ([jrmusic.is](https://jrmusic.is/jr-utgafa/book-and-cd/)) Rafnsson has also participated in projects that bring distinct musical traditions into contact. Delizie Italiane, formed in 2000, consists of Leone Tinganelli on vocals and guitar, Jón Elvar Hafsteinsson on guitar and vocals, and Rafnsson on double bass and vocals. The trio has released Passione, Delizie Italiane, and La vita con te. The latter focuses on Icelandic songs given Italian lyrics, alongside two Italian songs performed in their original language and three compositions by Tinganelli. Rafnsson’s bass playing thus forms part of an ensemble project that connects Italian song repertory with Icelandic popular-song material. ([jrmusic.is](https://jrmusic.is/en/delizie-italiane/um-delizie-italiane/?utm_source=openai)) In the Svare/Thoroddsen Trio, Rafnsson played double bass alongside Danish clarinettist Jørgen Svare and guitarist Bjorn Thoroddsen. The group was formed in 2002 following a concert in Akureyri commemorating clarinettist Finn Eydal, although Svare had previously appeared with Guitar Islancio at the Reykjavík Jazz Festival in 2000. Its repertoire centred on swing jazz inspired by earlier masters, original compositions, and music by Django Reinhardt. Jazz Airs was released in 2003, followed by Sweet and Lovely; the compilation Radio Jazz appeared in Mexico in 2008. The trio performed at jazz festivals in Iceland, Denmark, and the United States, and Jazz Airs appeared in Steve Rubin’s JazzTimes Critics’ Picks for 2004. ([jrmusic.is](https://jrmusic.is/jr-verkefni/svare-thoroddsen-trio/)) In the trio DJÄSS, Rafnsson plays bass with Karl Olgeirsson on piano, Rhodes, and vibraphone, and drummer Kristinn Snær Agnarsson. On the group’s self-titled album, he is credited as co-composer with Olgeirsson of “29,” while the remaining listed pieces are by Olgeirsson. DJÄSS releases associated with Rafnsson include Songs from the Top of the World, We Ride Polar Bears, the self-titled album, and Tilbrigði um Gunnar Þórðarson, jazz arrangements of eleven songs by Gunnar Thórdarson. More recently, Rafnsson played bass on Bjorn Thoroddsen’s Friday Night @ Hringbraut, released in January 2026, with Sigfús Örn Óttarsson on drums. He also performed with Thoroddsen, Janne Schaffer, Jonas Gideon, and Sigfús Örn at Salurinn in Kópavogur on 21 February 2025. ([jrmusic.is](https://jrmusic.is/en/jr-utgafa/djass/?utm_source=openai))
Kazumi Watanabe is a Japanese guitarist who released his first album in 1971 and became a leading figure in Japanese jazz fusion. He recorded Kylyn in 1979 and toured with Yellow Magic Orchestra the same year. During the 1980s he appeared as a guest soloist with the Brecker Brothers and with Jaco Pastorius's Word of Mouth ensemble, and in 1983 he formed the fusion band Mobo.
Kristján Eldjárn Þórarinsson (16 June 1972 – 22 April 2002) was an Icelandic guitarist whose work encompassed both classical and electric guitar. Born in Reykjavík, he died shortly before reaching the age of thirty. Though brief in chronological terms, his career included solo performance, ensemble work, recordings, arranging, teaching, and music made for stage and screen-related projects. Accounts published by his memorial fund emphasize that he did not confine himself to a single genre: he applied his training and instrumental range across different parts of Icelandic musical life, while also participating in work beyond Iceland. Eldjárn began studying guitar at an early age at the Reykjavík Music Education School and the Reykjavík School of Music. Among his teachers there were Eyþór Þorláksson and Páll Eyjólfsson. He subsequently studied classical guitar with Einar Kristján Einarsson at Tónskóli Sigursveins, completing his final diploma there in spring 1996. Alongside that classical course of study, he attended the jazz department of the FÍH School of Music for electric guitar. His teachers there included Eðvarð Lárusson, Hilmar Jensson, and Sigurður Flosason; he completed a final diploma in electric guitar in spring 1995. This dual education informed his work as both a classical soloist and an electric guitarist in jazz and experimental settings. In 1997 and 1998, Eldjárn undertook advanced classical-guitar studies at the Turku Conservatory in Finland. He studied with Timo Korhonen and completed soloist and teaching qualifications. His time in Turku also connected with a later collaborative project. Documentation of the duo Helvík states that Eldjárn and Finnish percussionist Samuli Kosminen met in Finland during the mid-1990s. They had already been developing improvised music for guitar and percussion before making their first public appearance as Helvík in autumn 1999. As a performer, Eldjárn appeared with numerous bands and groups in Iceland and abroad. His affiliations included Fyrirbæri, Dvergaflokkurinn, and Helvík. In autumn 1996 he also led a jazz trio with double bassist Róbert Þórhallsson and drummer Einar Valur Scheving. The trio appeared, among other events, at the RÚREK jazz festival. Its music has been described as a form of contemporary guitar jazz, and its repertoire included original material. Helvík, by contrast, was a project in which the dialogue between guitar and percussion, improvisation, and sonic exploration formed a central part of the music. Eldjárn maintained an active concert schedule in the latter half of the 1990s. Between 1996 and 2000, he gave nearly twenty solo recitals around Iceland and more than 130 school concerts, including performances in the Tónlist fyrir alla (“Music for Everyone”) programme. His first solo recital after completing his studies took place at the Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum on 7 July 1998. In a review published in Morgunblaðið two days later, composer Jón Ásgeirsson assessed the event as a significant debut and placed Eldjárn among Iceland’s leading guitarists. The response documents the attention his solo playing was receiving at that point in his career. Instrumental performance was only one part of Eldjárn’s professional activity. He recorded on numerous albums, made arrangements, and directed recording sessions. He also composed and/or performed music for plays, dance productions, films, television programmes, and advertisements. One documented collaboration is Ljóð, hljóð og óhljóð, in which his father, writer Þórarinn Eldjárn, reads his own poetry to Kristján’s improvisation-influenced guitar accompaniment. Released in 2003 after the guitarist’s death, the project preserved an example of their artistic collaboration and of his approach to joining music, spoken text, and improvisation. Eldjárn died on 22 April 2002. After his death, relatives, friends, and colleagues established the Memorial Fund of the Guitarist Kristján Eldjárn. Since 2007, the fund has awarded grants to promising musicians and accomplished music professionals, extending his name through continuing support for Icelandic musical activity. In 2012, the fund issued Gítarmaður, an album drawn from recordings of two of Eldjárn’s graduation concerts; the release later became available on streaming services. The fund continued its work in 2026, when Davíð Þór Jónsson was among its grant recipients. Eldjárn’s legacy therefore remains present both in preserved recordings and in a fund supporting new generations of musicians.
Krummi Björgvinsson, also known as Krummi, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Mínus, a Reykjavík rock band working at the intersection of hardcore punk and alternative rock. With Krummi on vocals, Mínus became a prominent Icelandic rock group around the turn of the millennium and released albums including Hey Johnny!, Jesus Christ Bobby, Halldór Laxness and The Great Northern Whalekill. His musical work has not been limited to Mínus. Krummi worked in Esja with Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson, and he has also been the singer in Legend, a project combining dark electronic rock with industrial and new-wave elements. Under his own name, he has released music connected with country, folk rock and blues. Mínus’s 2003 album Halldór Laxness is among his best-known recordings with the band; it drew considerable attention in Iceland and was later released internationally.
Larry Coryell was an American guitarist often called the godfather of fusion for bringing jazz together with rock and country in the 1960s. He played with Chico Hamilton and founded the band The Eleventh House in 1973. He performed in a guitar trio with John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía in 1979, and worked as an educator and columnist alongside his playing.
Matthías Þór Bjarkason is an 11-year-old guitarist who studies with Bjorn Thoroddsen and also attends guitar lessons at the Hafnarfjörður School of Music. Matthías is an exceptionally accomplished guitarist for his age. He has shown great dedication and has progressed rapidly. His interest in playing with others started early, and he formed his first band at just nine years old. Matthías also plays guitar regularly at the Sunday school of Fríkirkjan in Hafnarfjörður, where he has gained valuable experience performing and playing with others. He has a particular passion for rock and energetic guitar playing, and enjoys taking on challenging songs and new musical challenges.
Mike Stern is an American jazz and fusion guitarist who has built a career as a performer, recording artist, and collaborator. He studied at Berklee College of Music and received an early opportunity with Blood, Sweat & Tears. His guitar playing brings together influences from rock, blues, and jazz, with an emphasis on an electric sound and improvisation. Stern has worked with Miles Davis, Billy Cobham, Jaco Pastorius, the Brecker Brothers, Joe Henderson, and many other musicians. He has released sixteen albums as a leader, six of which have received Grammy nominations. His long career has made him an influential guitarist in contemporary jazz and fusion.
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen was a Danish double bassist and one of the most admired bass players in jazz. He was performing at Copenhagen's Jazzhus Montmartre as a teenager, accompanying visiting artists including Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, and Bill Evans. He played in Oscar Peterson's trio from 1972 to 1987, won a Grammy Award in 1974, and received the Nordic Council Music Prize in 1991. He recorded dozens of duo albums with pianist Kenny Drew and released around forty records under his own name.
Philip Catherine is a Belgian guitarist who began performing professionally at seventeen and released his debut album, Stream, in 1972. Charles Mingus called him "Young Django". He has played with Larry Coryell, Chet Baker, and Stéphane Grappelli, and recorded with Bjorn Thoroddsen on BT Jazz Guitar in 1997. Catherine studied at Berklee College of Music and replaced Jan Akkerman in the Dutch band Focus in 1976. He has recorded extensively as a leader and sideman since the 1960s.
Richard Gillis is a Canadian trumpeter and a professor at the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba, where he has taught since 1991. He is artistic director of the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra. He has recorded eight albums with Bjorn Thoroddsen and performed with him in Iceland, Canada, and the United States, including at Lincoln Center in 2006 and with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in 2017.
Robben Ford is an American electric guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for music that brings together blues, jazz, rock, and funk. He began on saxophone before teaching himself guitar, and has developed a career through both his own recordings and work with other artists. His playing is associated with electric blues and jazz fusion, while his work has moved between band, studio, and solo settings. Ford was a founding member of the jazz-fusion group Yellowjackets and played with the band in its early years. He has also performed and recorded with artists including Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Witherspoon, George Harrison, and Miles Davis; he toured with Davis in 1986. As a solo artist, Ford has received five Grammy nominations, including recognition for Talk to Your Daughter, the Robben Ford and the Blue Line album, Mystic Mile, the track “In the Beginning,” and Truth.
Sigfús Örn Óttarsson is an Icelandic drummer, also known as Fúsi “Fallbyssa.” He began playing with Baraflokkurinn at a young age: after the group’s previous drummer left in 1981, Sigfús took over the drum chair at the beginning of 1982, when he was 14. Baraflokkurinn was therefore among his earliest band projects. He is known for work with a range of Icelandic bands, including Rikshaw, Mannakorn, Jagúar, and Stjórnin. Sigfús joined Stjórnin as its drummer in autumn 1997. He also played drums on Bubbi Morthens’s album Ný spor, originally released in 1984, placing his recorded work across rock, pop, and sessions with other performers.
Tommy Emmanuel is an Australian guitarist known for solo acoustic-guitar performance and fingerstyle playing, building arrangements from melody, accompaniment, and rhythm on a single instrument. He began touring Australia as a child in his family band, then worked as a session musician and sideman before starting his solo career in 1979. His music draws on acoustic pop, jazz, classical music, and roots styles, while his recorded work is especially associated with instrumental guitar music. Emmanuel also collaborated with guitarist Chet Atkins, who awarded him the honorary Certified Guitar Player designation. At the 2024 Grammy Awards, Emmanuel shared the award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella with John Carter Cash, Markus Illko, Janet Robin, and Roberto Luis Rodriguez for “Folsom Prison Blues.” The recognition reflects his work not only as a guitarist but also as an arranger in guitar-based music.
Ólafur Gaukur Þórhallsson was a guitarist, composer, arranger, bandleader, and teacher who played an important part in the development of popular and jazz music in Iceland. He began as an instrumentalist, worked briefly in journalism, and then returned to music as his main profession. Across his career he composed, arranged, led groups, and contributed to recordings and publishing. He was also a teacher, founding Ólafur Gaukur’s Guitar School in 1975 and running it for the rest of his life. Jazz remained central to his work, and in 2002 he released 2 jazz gítarar with Jón Páll Bjarnason. His work as both a performer and educator links several generations of Icelandic guitarists.
Óskar Logi Ágústsson is an Icelandic guitarist and singer best known as the founder, vocalist, and guitarist of the rock band The Vintage Caravan. He formed the group in Álftanes in 2006 with drummer Guðjón Reynisson. The Vintage Caravan is a trio whose music draws on classic rock, heavy metal, progressive rock, blues, and boogie, and Óskar Logi is among the writers of the band’s material. With The Vintage Caravan, he has released music through international labels. On the 2025 album Portals, he performs vocals and guitar; Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth appears as a guest on the track “Philosopher.” Blues has also been part of Óskar Logi’s musical work. In 2024, the Reykjavík Blues Society named him an honorary member in recognition of his contribution to Icelandic blues music.