{"id":8216,"date":"2024-01-31T11:33:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/priceless-support\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T12:52:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T12:52:21","slug":"priceless-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/priceless-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Priceless support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Priceless support from P\u00e9tur W. Kristj\u00e1nsson&apos;s Memorial Fund<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>P\u00e9tur Wigelund Kristj\u00e1nsson, often referred to as P\u00e9tur poppari, was born on January 7, 1952, in Reykjav\u00edk and sadly passed away prematurely in 2004. Since 2012, winners of the Music Experiments have received generous amounts from a memorial fund established in his name. P\u00e9tur started in the band Pops shortly after his confirmation and from then on, there was no looking back.<\/p>\n\n<p>The bands P\u00e9tur was involved in include Svanfr\u00ed\u00f0ur, N\u00e1tt\u00fara, Start, and then the P-bands; Parad\u00eds, P\u00f3ker, and Pelican which P\u00e9tur founded. With these bands, he made a significant impact on Icelandic music for decades as one of the most hardworking and colorful rockers in the nation.<\/p>\n\n<p>Some well-known songs P\u00e9tur sang are Jenny Darling, Seinna meir, and Rabbits. He was always involved in music and frequently performed with various bands. For example, he made a comeback with the song Kr\u00f3kurinn with S\u00e1lin hans J\u00f3ns m\u00edns, the lyrics of which were based on P\u00e9tur&apos;s distinctive wording, and he also performed with Stj\u00f3rnin and Gildran.\u00a0 The last band P\u00e9tur founded was Gargi\u00f0.<\/p>\n\n<p>P\u00e9tur was a unique personality, sweet and free of any pretense. His long hair, Beatles shoes, and cool appearance in no way reflected the sincere and warm-hearted man that P\u00e9tur was. He was the life of every party, captivating people with his charisma, kindness, and entertaining nature.<\/p>\n\n<p>P\u00e9tur had a talent for spotting promising musicians and helped many throughout his years in the music publishing industry. He started his career in a garage in the Laugarnes neighborhood in Reykjav\u00edk and thus knew firsthand the difficulties and everything involved in promoting oneself and one&apos;s music.<\/p>\n\n<p>The P\u00e9tur W. Kristj\u00e1nsson Memorial Fund was established to provide support to promising musicians, and winners of the Music Experiments receive support from the fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priceless support from P\u00e9tur W. Kristj\u00e1nsson&apos;s Memorial Fund. P\u00e9tur Wigelund Kristj\u00e1nsson, often referred to as P\u00e9tur poppari, was born on January 7, 1952, in Reykjav\u00edk and sadly passed away prematurely in 2004. Since 2012, winners of the Music Experiments have received generous amounts from a memorial fund established in his name. P\u00e9tur started in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/an-texta.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8219,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions\/8219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musiktilraunir.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}