Anna Pálína Árnadóttir (1963-2004) was a distinguished performer of poetic music in Iceland. She studied at the FIH School of Music in Reykjavík and with professors in USA, Iceland and Sweden. Her music is a mixture of poetic music, folk, Nordic songs, jazz and even psalms. Anna Pálína´s close collaboration with poet/songwriter Aðalsteinn Ásberg Sigurdsson led to many highly acclaimed recordings of original music, together with well known Nordic songs in the folk tradition and the reknowned children's music that earned the duo an exceptionally wide audience. Anna Pálína died of breast cancer in 2004, only two months after her last recordings with the Swedish trio Draupner for the album Sagnadans.