Gumundur Magni sgeirsson (born Dec 1, 1978 in Egilsstair, Iceland), is a singer, songwriter, and musician. He is additionally currently the frontman for the Icelandic pop stripe Mti Sl. Exterior of Iceland, he is too-too renowned for beingness a dissident on the CBS realism appearance Shift Star: Supernova .

The tierce of quadruplet children, Magni was born in a humble townsfolk in easter Iceland. He lived on a farming in the hamlet of Borgarfjrur Eystri. He was half-baked with euphony and playacting at an early age, and created a banding with his friends and cousins at the age of 11.

By the period he was 15 daylight old, he was already playing on stage. As a teenage at the Eidar Board School, he used the school's melodic facilities to hone his skills as a musician. Completely his days at the schoolhouse he participated twice at the Icelandic High-pressure Schoolhouse Euphony Competitor .

Later, he joined the stripe SHAPE, which stands for "supreme Hq Akin Powers Europe." The stripe played in easter Iceland and released an EP in 1998, but in 1999, Magni moved to Reykjavik to suit channel vocalizer for the stripe Mti Sl after they recruited him.

Mti Sl became one of the biggest pop bands in Iceland, producing heptad albums, two of which went gold. The banding has toured extensively, and performances in Denmark, Germany, Norway, Luxembourg-ville and at the notable Cavern Bludgeon in Liverpool, England where The Beatles played in the early 1960s. Magni has and effected duets with individual Icelandic pop and shift headlines and contributed to multitudinous various projects.

Magni is the begetter of one son, Marin (born 2005).

Magni was virtually foreigner exterior of Iceland over he competed on the U.s.-produced euphony tv show, Wobble Star: Supernova , in the summertime of 2006 where he earned himself the splintering cite of "ice-man". He single himself on the appearing with consistently solidity vocal performances and his conformity with the show's Residence Band, as commented upon by the show's try and host. Magni fabricated it to the show's solidifying finale, covering fourth, asshole Dilana (second) and Toby Reef (third), and new Sway Whiz Supernova frontman Lukas Rossi. A return festivity took position at Smralind on Sept 17, 2006, then Magni returned to Iceland after his trine extent stretch with the CBS show. An estimated 8,000 citizenry welcomed Magni home.

On November 30 and Declination 1, 2006, Magni materialized and composed with the Careen Star: Supernova Mansion Band, and comrade Sway Virtuoso contestants Dilana, Toby Rand, Tempest Fleshy and Josh Logan at two concerts in Reykjavik, Iceland to celebrate his birthday. The concerts were named Considerably Concert of 2006 at the FM957 Listener's Awards in Iceland; Magni himself moreover won the Intimately Male Vocalist 2006 award. Magni, including with one of his brothers, too developed the quartern yearbook Brslan festival earnest his hometown of Borgarfjrur Eystri in July 2008. The concert was headlined by the Irish singer-songwriter, Damien Rice, and furthermore featured a briefs set from Magni.

Magni continues to fulfil with Mti Sl at originates over Iceland. In November 2006, the banding released a outermost invitations album, Mti Sl 10 r , with two new songs and new vocals from Magni on some of the aged songs. In 2008, Mti Sl released two singles - "rin," which reached playact one on the Iceland radiocommunication chart, and "til n," which Magni wrote the euphony and co-wrote the lyrics for. In Aug 2007 and 2008, Mti Sl was a star at one of Iceland's ultra average euphony festivals in Vestmannaeyjar, and occasioned before a caboodle of nearly 50,000 on the briny format at the 2007 Reykjavik Socialisation Morose festival.