Matthías Matthíasson

A singer, born in 1975 and brought up in Dalvík in the north, known to everybody as Matti Matt. He sang in musicals as a young man, among them Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, where he played Peter and was nominated as best newcomer at the Icelandic Music Awards in 1995, for his acting. In 1996 Magnús Scheving asked him to be the singing voice of Sportacus in LazyTown, first on stage and then in the television series, in both the Icelandic and the English versions. He has sung with the bands Papar and Reggae on Ice. In 2011 he was the singer of Sjonni's Friends, who performed Coming Home for Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contest.