Ingvi Þór Kormáksson is a songwriter from Iceland, 15 albums to his credit, 4 of which performed by JJ Soul Band, co-written by UK singer/songwriter, JJ Soul. Their music can be described as being a mixture of blues, jazz and funk (blues-(con)fusion). Ingvi has also written music for Icelandic vocalists (pop-latin-folk-jazz). Altogether ITK has had more than 200 of his compositions recorded by various artists. He writes in the AC genre, but jazzy chord progressions, blues, bossanova and samba rhythms are often featured in his music and sometimes folk music traditions can also be heard. Also we have here instrumental tracks in different categories.

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JJ Soul Band's last album was "BRIGHT LIGHTS" (2008).
Ingvi's 2012 album is LATÍNUDEILDIN - LATIN FACULTY (2012), a collection of bossanova, samba, etc. performed by Icelandic vocalists + Eivør from Faroe Islands and Jussanam from Brasil.
2016 solo piano album performed by Icelandic jazz pianist and composer, Agnar Már Magnússon.
2019-2021; diverse instrumentals featured on Instrumental Collection and Instrumental Collection II (Spotify).

AWARDS

TONIGHT -
1. prize Funk/Latin/Reggae/World + 3. Overall Prize; 100% Music Songwriting Contest, 2008
1. prize (latin category); Song Expo (Benelux International Song & Culture Festival), 2003 ,
1. prize (instrumental / jazz category); UNISONG 2004,
2. prize; "Runner Up" (World Music Category); John Lennon Songwriting Contest, 2004

1. prize; R&B/Jazz category; USA Songwriting Competition, 1997 - CITY LIFE
Finalist (jazz&blues); UK Songwriting Contest, 2003 - MOONBRIGHT - MOONLIGHT
1. prize; Jazz/Blues cat.; Pacific International Song Contest, 2005 - ANGELIQUE
Finalist (Open); IAMA, 2011 - FRONT PAGE NEWS
1st Place Award; SongPrize, 2004 - COOL TONIGHT
Nomination, HMMA, Hollywood Music in Media 2015 - REALLY WILD
Honor Award; The Great American Song Contest, 2000 - CAN´T WAIT A LIFETIME
Finalist; UK Songwriting Contest, 2002 - THE TIMES WE'RE LIVING IN
1. prize; Dallas Songwriters ass. Song Contest, 2019 (Instrumental - SPECIAL FEATURE
Finalist (Jazz/Blues) UNISONG International Song Contest 2009 - BRIGHT LIGHTS
Honor Award; USA Songwriting Competition 2001 - THE MIRROR
Nomination, HMMA, Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2013 - ENDURING LOVE
Finalist; USA Songwriting Competition, 2021 - PAGO PRA VER

and many more ...

Albums

This Artist has 12 Albums

Playlists

This Artist has 1 Playlist

Comments

Ingvi,
How have you been. At least your songs get "Under Consideration." I rarely get that far. Have you had any commercial success through Broadjam? I'm busy finishing the songs for my full-length musical, The Kennedys (www.danielwolfmusic.com). Anyway, I hope you're well and send me a missive if you can. I hope to visit Iceland someday to pay homage to Bobby Fisher which I believe is not too far outside Reykjavik, right? Dan Wolf

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Ingvi Thor Kormaksson
3 weeks ago

I'm fine. No commercial success yet to speak of from Broadjam. Wow, a musical! You're busy. Fisher's grave is not so far from Reykjavik. I'm working on an album with vocals in Icelandic, both poems and lyrics, 10 or 12 singers. We'll do an instrumental version as well. Hopefully we'll finish this year.



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Daniel Wolf
over 30 days ago to Ingvi Thor Kormaksson

Congratulations on being selected. I hope to hear some of your music in a movie. Hope to hear from you again.
Daniel Wolf

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Ingvi Thor Kormaksson
over 30 days ago

Probably not a movie. Retail, I think. But thanks, Daniel.



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Daniel Wolf
over 30 days ago to Ingvi Thor Kormaksson

Ingvi,
How have you been? If they don't select "The Image of You" they're insane. It's beautiful piece and I love those cool bossa nova chords. Has anything happened to you musically or otherwise since we chatted last? Did I tell you one of my compositions, You Need a Wife (instrumental) will be in a Christmas movie? The movie is called Letters at Christmas which I assume will be out during this upcoming Christmas season. I fear that it's a made for TV movie however. Otherwise, things are fine in Philadelphia except for crime as I'm sure you're aware of. Anyway, I hope to hear from you. Again, one of my bucket list is to visit Bobby Fischer's grave then maybe we can hit a jazz club soon after.
Dan

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Ingvi Thor Kormaksson
over 30 days ago

Hi Daniel. - Congratulations on the movie deal. I'm working on an album; Jazz, Swing, Shuffle, Latin, etc.. twelve vocalists, Icelandic lyrics, but we'll have an instrumental version of all the tunes. I decided not to be completely idle while I'm waiting to croak (or shift to the other side). - Purchased your book, But Is He Jewish...and read it. Funny stuff, but being Jewish seems to be a special condition (Woody Allen, Philip Roth, you and other writers), so some of the stories were a bit "out" for my taste, if you know what I mean, but overall fun.



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