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\nIcelandic poker player J\u00f3n J\u00f3nsson disappeared in Dublin in 2019.<\/p>\n
RT\u00c9 Documentary On One has scooped its first ever dedicated music award.<\/p>\n
At the 2026 Icelandic Music Awards, composer \u00dalfur Eldj\u00e1rn won Release of the Year in the coveted Cinema and Theatre Music Soundtrack category for the original score he wrote for the Documentary On One podcast series Where is J\u00f3n?<\/p>\n
This is particularly notable as it’s the first time music for a podcast series has been recognised at the Icelandic music awards.<\/p>\n
Where is J\u00f3n? a co-production between RT\u00c9 and R\u00daV (the public broadcaster in Iceland), told the story of J\u00f3n J\u00f3nsson, an Icelandic poker player who disappeared in Dublin in 2019.<\/p>\n
As a result of the podcast series, Europol became involved in the investigation, which has since seen Garda\u00ed visit Iceland to interview over 50 persons of interest. The investigation into J\u00f3n’s dissapperance continues.<\/p>\n
\nIcelandic poker player J\u00f3n J\u00f3nsson disappeared in Dublin in 2019.<\/p>\n
The Icelandic Music awards have been running for over 30 years; previous winners include Sigur R\u00f3s, Bj\u00f6rk, Olafur Arnalds. This year’s big winner was two-time Grammy winner, Laufey.<\/p>\n
Televised live on R\u00daV from Harpa, the renowned concert hall in Reykjav\u00edk, \u00dalfur Eldj\u00e1rn accepted his award saying “The one thing I’m not going to forget in this speech is to thank the people behind this podcast: Anna Marsibil and Liam who is excitedly streaming this ceremony from Ireland. I would also like to thank R\u00daV and RT\u00c9 for having the ambition to include an original soundtrack in a podcast, and then I would like to dedicate this award to J\u00f3n, his family and loved ones. It was a great honor to be a part of telling your story.”<\/p>\n
Co-producer of the Where is J\u00f3n? series, Anna Marsibil Clausen said “\u00dalfur’s work on the podcast was phenomenal and we are all very excited and proud. This is the first time music from a podcast is celebrated at all at the Icelandic Music Awards, and it definitely encourages us to include more original score in our future storytelling.”<\/p>\n
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Liam O’Brien from RT\u00c9 Documentary On One said: “it’s brilliant to see the music we’re commissioing for our series succeed outside of the series themselves. Original music soundtracks have become such an intergral part of our storytelling and \u00dalfur did an exceptional job with this soundtrack. In a very competitive category, it’s gratifying to see music for a podcast series outshine some big film and TV drama soundtracks. Special mention also to our marketing and graphics team who did a super job on the cover art design for Where is J\u00f3n?, including this album cover!”<\/p>\n
To date, under the RT\u00c9 Music label, RT\u00c9 Documentary On One has now released six music albums of original soundtracks commissioned for its podcast series, namely Finding Samantha, The Real Carrie Jade, Runaway Joe, Where is J\u00f3n? Stolen Sister and First Conviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 Documentary On One has scooped its first ever dedicated music award. At the 2026 Icelandic Music Awards,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-361970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}