Editing Sigur Rós (section)

===1997–1998: ''Von'' and ''Von brigði''===
{{Main|Von (album)|Von brigði}}
[[Jónsi|Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson]] (guitar and vocals), [[Georg Hólm]] (bass) and Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson (drums) formed Sigur Rós in [[Reykjavík]] in January 1994.<ref name="sigur-ros-official-website-faq-3">
{{cite web
|title=sigur rós – frequently asked questions
|publisher=sigur-ros.co.uk
|url=http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/band/faq.php#03
|access-date=15 December 2013
}}</ref> The band's name, which means "Victory Rose", is taken from the name of Jónsi's younger sister, Sigurrós, born a few days before the band was formed.<ref name="sigur-ros-official-website-faq-3"/><ref name="sigur-ros-official-website-faq-4">
{{cite web
|title=sigur rós – frequently asked questions
|publisher=sigur-ros.co.uk
|url=http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/band/faq.php#04
|access-date=18 July 2007
}}</ref>

Sigur Rós signed a record deal with the Icelandic [[Sugarcubes]]-owned record label [[Bad Taste (record label)|Bad Taste]], because they thought the falsetto vocals would appeal to teenage girls. In 1997, they released ''[[Von (album)|Von]]'' and in 1998 a remix collection, ''[[Von brigði]]''. The band was joined by [[Kjartan Sveinsson]] on keyboards in 1998. He is the only member of Sigur Rós with musical training, and contributed most of the orchestral and string arrangements for their later work.<ref>{{cite news|last=Carpenter|first=Susan|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-20-ca-196-story.html|title=Listen to Their Landscape|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=20 May 2001|access-date=23 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Baggs|first=Michael|url=http://www.gigwise.com/news/79087/sigur-ros-member-kjartan-sveinsson-quits-after-15-years|title=Sigur Ros member Kjartan Sveinsson quits after 15 years|work=Gigwise|date=25 January 2013|access-date=23 March 2015}}</ref>