Daniel Agust Haraldsson

Daníel Ágúst Haraldsson (born 26 August 1969) is an Icelandic solo artist, and a lead singer of the bands GusGus, Nýdönsk and Esja. After five albums with Nýdönsk, he branched out into acting in the National and Municipal theaters, playing roles in West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar (Pontius Pilate) and Stone Free. Film directors Arni and Kinski approached him with playing a lead role in their short film Nautn. It was with this film project Daníel founded GusGus in 1995 with Kinski. The GusGus project became Daníel's most commercially successful music venture to date, selling over 300 thousand records and touring worldwide. Daníel took a break from GusGus in the year 2000 to pursue his solo dream as well as writing music for both TV and documentary films and composing music for the Iceland Dance Company. His first solo album, Swallowed a Star, was released by One Little Indian in Europe (2005) and North America (2006). During the years leading up to his first solo release Daníel was heavily involved in Iceland's contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2005. This included acting in, co-directing, and editing the film piece as well as supervising the soundtrack for it. Daníel formed a musical pet project, with heavy metal band Mínus front man Krummi Björgvinsson, called Esja and released a self-titled album in 2008. Daníel rejoined GusGus with the releases of Forever in 2007, 24/7 (2009), Arabian Horse (2011), and Mexico (2014) touring extensively in Europe, US and Latin America. Daníel released his second solo album, The Drift, in 2011.