Alex Somers

Alex Somers
Somers at the Riceboy Sleeps launch, 2009
Born (1984-03-07) March 7, 1984 (age 40)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Education
Occupations
  • Visual artist
  • musician
Websitealexsomers.com

Alex Somers (born March 7, 1984) is an American visual artist and musician from Baltimore, Maryland, who attended Berklee College of Music and Listaháskóli Íslands. Somers lives and works in Los Angeles. Previously he ran a recording studio in downtown Reykjavík where he produced, engineered, and mixed since 2010.

He and his former partner Jónsi, with whom he split in 2019,[1] produce music and visual art under the name Jónsi & Alex. The pair have released an album and a picture book, both titled Riceboy Sleeps. Jónsi and Somers have also collaborated on Jónsi's solo project. Somers co-produced and played instruments on Jónsi's album Go. He then joined Jónsi in his five-piece live band, playing guitar and keyboards for the world tour in support of Go. Somers has produced and mixed a large number of records, including those of Sigur Rós, Jónsi, Julianna Barwick, Briana Marela, Death Vessel, Sin Fang,[2] and Pascal Pinon.

Somers has been vegan since 2004,[3] and a raw vegan since 2007.[4]

  1. ^ Albertson, Jasmine (October 17, 2019). "Jónsi and Alex Somers on Waking Up Riceboy Sleeps, Trading Glaciers for Sunny Beaches and Working Together Post-Breakup". www.kexp.org. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  2. ^ "saoing faoing, Two excited young men in the studio. Started". sinfang.tumblr.com. Retrieved April 30, 2012.
  3. ^ Josef Lincoln (February 17, 2017), "Why I'm Vegan" Podcast with Alex Somers, retrieved February 18, 2017
  4. ^ Peltonen, Sari (August 18, 2009). "Raw in Reykjavík". The Reykjavík Grapevine. grapevine.is. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2016.