Helgi Valur and the Shemales

About Me

Helgi Valur sgeirsson was born 1979 on the 30th of January in Sweden. A year after that his road led to Hverageri in Iceland where he grew up listening to the trubador music of Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens. As time passed Helgi learned to play guitar and was a guitar player in various bands. In the year 2000 Helgi began his singing career as he came in 2nd runner up in a singing contest for high schools. There he sang Jeff Buckleys version of Leonard Cohens Hallelujah. Apart from Buckley Helgis influences are to name a few Saul Williams, Will Oldham, Nick Drake, Fiona Apple and Elliot Smith. In the summer of 2004 Helgi Valur tried his luck busking on the streets of Copenhagen and Malm with much prays from Skandinavians. At the end of the summer Helgi returned with experience to last a lifetime and won the well known trubador contest of channel 2. The grand prize In that competition was a guitar and also a trip and a gig at Icelands trubador festival at Neskaupsstaur. There Helgi caught the ear of the audience and two of those ears belonged to Jn lafsson (Icelands most famous producer) who realized the magic that was taking place. They formed a friendship and after playing together yet apart at a number of concerts it was decided that Jn would produce his first album. Soon a record contract with Dennis records followed and on the 30th of may,2005 Helgis first solo album "Demise of Faith was released. In the year 2006 Helgi got sick of the James Bluntisation of trubadourism and decided that a new voice was needed in the world of music. He decided to work on a postmodernist project called "The black man is GOD, the white man is the devil. Within days of recording his first tracks people responded to his vision. Helgi was to become the first trubadour rapper of the world covering classics such as Snoops "Gin and Juice" and 2pacs "Life goes on".

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/22/2005
Band Website: helgivalur.com
Band Members: Helgi Valur - Vocals
Edda BjÃ¶rnsdÃ³ttir - Cello
KÃ¡ri - Trombone
MagnÃºs ElÃasen- Drums
ArnljÃ³tur SigurÃ°sson- Bass

Influences: Jeff Buckley, Saul Williams, Fiona Apple, Abba, Tupac Shakur, Andre Benjamin, Devandrah Banhart, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Led Zeppelin, ...
Sounds Like: fun, fun, fun
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

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Posted by Helgi Valur and the Shemales on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:09:00 PST

The Shemales

In the beginning there was nothing. Well not exactly nothing cause even knowledge of nothing implies there was something. Maybe there was just one lonely prophet with a vis...
Posted by Helgi Valur and the Shemales on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:45:00 PST

Highlight of the night

"...the highlight of the night was the singer-songwriter Helgi Valur, performing at a small bar called Dillon. His backing band, consisting of trombone, cello, bass, and drums, lent his raw, folksy, S...
Posted by Helgi Valur and the Shemales on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:45:00 PST

Shortbus (the best movie ever)

I just had to tell everybody too see Shortbus. Oh what joy I felt. Oh what freedom. I sensed the moment in eternity. Whitney Houston would call it "One moment in time". Prince would call it "Purp...
Posted by Helgi Valur and the Shemales on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:44:00 PST

Politics

It's been a while since I've written a blog. The reason is I've been working as a writer for Grapevine. But also I've been highly involved in politics. Running for tow council in 2. place for The Left...
Posted by Helgi Valur and the Shemales on Fri, 26 May 2006 10:10:00 PST

Kvótar

eg hef nyveri odlast tha hugljomun ad allt lifid byggist upp kvotum.Hver tilfinning sem kviknar brjosti manns er avallt takmorkud vid thad hvort kvotinn se uppurinn. Afengi veitir manni hamingju ...
Posted by Helgi Valur and the Shemales on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:53:00 PST

Another sleepless night

I can't go to sleep. It's now eight in tha morning and I've been trying to talk myself into sleeping for 6 hours. What is it with the night. It just keeps me hanging on. It won't let go of m...
Posted by Helgi Valur and the Shemales on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:45:00 PST

The Black Man Is God

Helgi Valur was born in 1979 and so was rap, any connection. Yes, this boy would be the last chapter in the history of rap. " Just another white boy rippin of the black man's music". Yes, in a way but...
Posted by Helgi Valur and the Shemales on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:11:00 PST