Johannsson Bardi

He is an Icelandic workaholic. After studying Icelandic language and grammar at the University of Iceland he began his career as a journalist on the most important popular Icelandic magazine Seen and Heard, but soon left to study fashion at the School of FB in Iceland. This lasted a year until his hobby, music, gained the upper hand. After working on various projects such as film music and TV theme tunes, he made his first record under the name Bang Gang. The record received favorable reviews in France and in Iceland (where it was released). Afterwards, Bardi decided to explore other avenues and threw himself into the production of Iceland's first erotic television program on the Skjar Einn channel, which, right from the start, got the highest ratings. Though continuing to compose music, he launched a daily radio program that ran for a year and met with huge success. His second television program, Konfect, became the least understood television series in the history of Icelandic television. The teleiision network continued to receive complaints, as the program was considered to be too surreal and brutal. Now, however, it is a cult program. His next major musical effort produced new songs for some Icelandic artists, his second record as Bang Gang and another project entitled Lady and Bird with singer Keren Ann, with whom he also wrote the book Lady and Bird Recording Diary, also distributed in Paris and now extremely rare. In 2004 he was awarded a prize by the Reykjavik Artfund. Currently, Bardi is working on a composition that the National Orchestra of Iceland will perform in February 2005 for a silent film of 1992 entitled Haxan, as well as his third album.