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Elly. The biography of Elly Vilhjálm. Compiled by Margrét Blöndal.
Elly Vilhjálms was once the nation's most admired singer, and her art is associated with the best that exists in Icelandic popular music. Her singing was refined, her interpretation modest and thoughtful, her voice soft and warm. She worked so hard that it all sounded as if she needed nothing for it. Coincidentally, Elly began singing at dances. She herself planned to become a writer and actress, but at the age of seventeen she took part in a singing audition held by the KK sextet, and then her fate was sealed. Experience was her school and her popularity was great despite the adversity that came with dealing with popular music in previous years, an art that many looked down on. Elly was secretive by nature and avoided the media spotlight. As a result, her life sometimes became the subject of rumors and gossip that she rarely bothered to answer. Who was she, this woman who charmed men in nightclubs and aroused the jealousy of women, married three times, drank forbidden snake blood and smuggled a legendary monkey to Iceland? Margrét Blöndal tells the biography of Elly Vilhjálmur and searches widely for sources. Here is told a fascinating story of a woman who possessed an unfathomable mystery and enchanted many, a woman who never gave up, independent until the last day. (Bókatíðindi 2012).
Elly Vilhjálms was once the nation's most admired singer, and her art is associated with the best that exists in Icelandic popular music. Her singing was refined, her interpretation modest and thoughtful, her voice soft and warm. She worked so hard that it all sounded as if she needed nothing for it. Coincidentally, Elly began singing at dances. She herself planned to become a writer and actress, but at the age of seventeen she took part in a singing audition held by the KK sextet, and then her fate was sealed. Experience was her school and her popularity was great despite the adversity that came with dealing with popular music in previous years, an art that many looked down on. Elly was secretive by nature and avoided the media spotlight. As a result, her life sometimes became the subject of rumors and gossip that she rarely bothered to answer. Who was she, this woman who charmed men in nightclubs and aroused the jealousy of women, married three times, drank forbidden snake blood and smuggled a legendary monkey to Iceland? Margrét Blöndal tells the biography of Elly Vilhjálmur and searches widely for sources. Here is told a fascinating story of a woman who possessed an unfathomable mystery and enchanted many, a woman who never gave up, independent until the last day. (Bókatíðindi 2012).