Georg "Goggi" Hólm (ˈcɛːɔrɣ ˈhoulm; born April 6, 1976) is the bassist

Bassist

A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

 of the Iceland

Iceland

Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

ic post-rock

Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

 band Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós

Sigur Rós is an Icelandic post-rock band with classicaland minimalist elements. The band is known for its ethereal sound, and frontman Jónsi Birgisson's falsetto vocals and use of bowed guitar. In January 2010, the band announced that they will be on hiatus. Since then, it has since been announced...

. Holm is the most prominent member of Sigur Rós in the English press, as he does significantly more press than the other members due to his being the most fluent English-speaker in the band; part of Georg's fluency in English comes from briefly living in Brighton, England

Brighton

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Personal life

He has a wife named Svanhvít. He has a stepdaughter, Salka, who has a song named after her, and a younger daughter Elena. His father, Haukur, is a news reporter on a local TV station, Stöð 2 (Channel 2). His mother's name is Helga. He is the only member of Sigur Rós without a patronymic

Patronymic

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 name: the majority of Icelanders have a patronym rather than surname

Surname

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. The song "Salka", a former live only song, released on Hvarf/Heim in 2007, is named after his stepdaughter.

Georg has two brothers; Kjartan Dagur Holm (1989), a guitarist in For a Minor Reflection

For a minor reflection

For a Minor Reflection is a post-rock band from Reykjavík, Iceland. The band comprises four 20-year-olds. Their self-produced debut album Reistu þig við, sólin er komin á loft... featuring six songs lasting an hour in total, all recorded over a weekend in Iceland...

 and Starri Holm (1999).

Professional life

He and Jónsi

Jón Þór Birgisson

Jón “Jónsi” Þór Birgisson is the guitarist and vocalist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He is known for his use of a cello bow on guitar and his falsetto voice. He is also blind in his right eye and is openly gay. His boyfriend Alex Somers has done much of the graphic design for...

 are the remaining founding members of Sigur Rós. He sometimes plays using a cello

Cello

The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

 bow

Bow (music)

In music, a bow is moved across some part of a musical instrument, causing vibration which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, although some bows are used with musical saws and other bowed idiophones....

. As do other members of Sigur Rós, he plays multiple instruments during a typical live show. This often includes, in addition to electric and acoustic bass guitars, keyboards, glockenspiel, and drums.