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
Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.
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.
It's amazing, coconut oil. I use it as a moisturizer. I put it in my hair when I want a kind of greasy look. I take off my makeup with it. I put a little bit in my coffee. I have coconut oil with everything.
I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores.
I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.
The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.
I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.
I will grab any opportunity I can to learn something new.