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"After spending 16 years as the singer/guitarist in the Icelandic group Sigur R\u00F3s, Jon Thor Birgisson renamed himself J\u00F3nsi and began a solo career. Though he had used the name before on a project with Alex Somers (as J\u00F3nsi &amp; Alex on 2009\u2019s album Riceboy Sleeps), the pixie-voiced singer\u2019s first solo album under the J\u00F3nsi name was Go, which was released on longtime label XL in the spring of 2010. Featuring more upbeat and poppy songs than those he had written and sung with Sigur R\u00F3s, J\u00F3nsi was joined on the album by Somers, modern composer/arranger Nico Muhly, and Samuli Kosminen. Shortly after the release of the album, J\u00F3nsi began a world-wide tour that lasted the rest of the year. The album sold a fair amount of copies and his profile was boosted by the appearance of a newly recorded track, \"Sticks and Stones,\" for the soundtrack of the hit children's movie How to Train Your Dragon. In November of 2010, J\u00F3nsi released Go Live, a CD/DVD set that included live recordings taken during the European leg of the tour on the CD and live footage of dress rehearsals shot before the tour kicked off. J\u00F3nsi's song on the Dragon soundtrack led to his working with Cameron Crowe on the soundtrack to the director's 2011 film We Bought a Zoo. ~ Tim Sendra"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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