Lykke Li
Lykke Li
Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson, known as Lykke Li, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and model. Her music often blends elements of indie pop, dream pop and electronic; instruments in her songs include violins, synthesisers, tambourines, trumpets, saxophones, cellos, and African drums. Li possesses the vocal range of a soprano. Li's debut album, Youth Novels, was released in 2008. Her second album, Wounded Rhymes, was released in 2011, followed by her third album, I Never Learn, in 2014...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth18 March 1986
CityYstad, Sweden
CountrySweden
My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core.
Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way.
It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.
It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system.
I want people to have a good time. It's boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.
It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.
I'm just not interested in getting judged or getting people to love me. Being seen and taking my photo and having to follow this schedule all the time, I don't enjoy it.
I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.
I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.
The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.
Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.
When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.
I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black.