Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson, also known as or transliterated to Eythor Ingi represented Iceland at the 2013 contest held in Malmö, Sweden.
Eythor Ingi's parents are Gunnlaugur Antonsson, a fisherman and Guðbjörg Stefánsdóttir, a housewife and student. He also has two younger sisters, Ellen Ýr and Elísa Rún. His grandfathers Anton Gunnlaugsson and Stefán Friðgeirsson were both musicians, influencing Eythor to make music. Eythor Ingi's first idol was Elvis Presley and recalls imitating him in bad English.
Eythor Ingi is also dyslexic and has ADHD, which he slightly refers to in the lyrics of Ég á líf. In the official music video for his Eurovision song, he is seen fishing and filleting a fish, so he has presumably been taught some skills by his father.
Trivia[]
- Eyþór Ingi was a part of the voice cast of the Icelandic dub of the film How To Train Your Dragon 2, where 2009 winner Alexander Rybak performed the part of Hiccup in the Norwegian dub, and recorded the theme song "Into A Fantasy".
- He is one of six Eurovision representatives to have voiced the character of Branch in an foreign-language dub of the Dreamworks film Trolls, the others being Waylon, Ralfs Eilands of PeR, Vaidas Baumila, Dima Bilan and Måns Zelmerlöw, who voiced the character in the film's Dutch, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian and Swedish dubs respectively.
- Additionally, he along with Vaidas reprised his role in the film's sequels Trolls World Tour and Trolls Band Together, where they were joined by Tim Schou of A Friend in London in the Danish dub. Waylon and Måns were replaced by Buddy Vedder and Jonathan Jaarnek Norén respectively in the next two films, while Bilan was replaced by Daniil Postnikov (dialogue) and Rakhmatulla Amirov (songs) in Band Together.