Artist Profile

Meet Agust Islandia

Agust Smari Bjarkarson, performing as Agust Islandia, is an Icelandic queer pop artist and musical storyteller building a catalog of gay anthems, queer narrative albums, and full lyric pages grounded in identity, desire, struggle, and resilience.

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Origin Reykjavik, Iceland, writing queer stories into pop and musical theatre.
Signature Work The Unseen Chorus, Swipe Me to the Moon, and bilingual Pride releases.
Focus Same-sex love, Pride, recovery, identity, satire, and emotional honesty.

About Agust Smari Bjarkarson

Agust Smari Bjarkarson, performing as Agust Islandia, creates music that unapologetically centers queer life, queer love, self-acceptance, and the emotional complexity of modern gay experience. The project moves between pop songwriting, theatrical storytelling, satire, and vulnerable confessional material.

His catalog ranges from Pride-facing anthems like "Gay and Proud / Gay y Orgulloso" to larger narrative works like "The Unseen Chorus", a full-length gay musical addressing addiction, shame, recovery, and the search for redemptive connection.

Musical Direction

The work blends pop accessibility with musical-theatre structure. Songs are often designed to stand on their own while still contributing to a wider narrative world, particularly on the album and lyric pages that document track-by-track context.

Recurring influences include emotionally direct songwriting, theatrical momentum, and queer-centered storytelling that does not flatten difficult material into generic uplift.

Mission & Vision

The project aims to make queer stories visible in formats that are both searchable and artistically coherent: official release pages, complete lyrics, musical cycles, and song worlds that speak plainly about desire, community, conflict, and growth.

The long-term direction is larger productions, stronger collaborations, and a catalog that keeps expanding without losing specificity or emotional risk.

Career Highlights

  • Viral breakthrough: "Gay and Proud" reached major visibility on TikTok and became a community-facing Pride anthem.
  • Full musical release: The Unseen Chorus established a large-form theatrical work with complete lyrics published online.
  • Expanding catalog: Singles, bilingual releases, satire, and multiple concept-driven projects continue to widen the site and discography.
  • Searchable canon: The website functions as a structured archive for lyrics, releases, artist identity, and official metadata.

Based in Reykjavik

Creating from Reykjavik, Agust brings an Icelandic perspective into LGBTQ+ pop and musical storytelling while writing for a wider international audience of queer listeners and allies.

The Unseen Chorus Swipe Me to the Moon Gay and Proud

Contact & Availability

Available for Pride festivals, LGBTQ+ events, features, interviews, and artist-related press inquiries.

Email: agust@arcticsea.com