Rene Goiffon

Rene Goifton came to the US from France in 1982 and built the critically lauded independent record company Harmonia Mundi USA. Goitton's longtime interests in music and traveling led him to create World Village, a subsidiary label of harmonia mundi that releases world music albums. Both harmonia mundi and World Village have received multiple Awards and Grammy nominations. He is married to Grammy Award-winning classica producer Robina Young. He has traveled several times to Iceland where he became familiar with most of the people and places listed in the itinerary.