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Dec 25, 2007 · Place of Birth: Reykjavik, Iceland. Date of Birth: November 21, 1965. Ethnicity: Icelandic. Björk is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, actress, and advocate for environmental causes. She has sold more than 22 million records worldwide.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir OTF (/ b j ɜːr k / BYURK, Icelandic: [pjœr̥k ˈkvʏðmʏntsˌtouhtɪr̥] ⓘ; born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress.
Apr 29, 2024 · For the ethereal Biophilia (2011), Björk used tablet computers to help her compose songs, which were released, in addition to conventional formats, as a series of interactive iPhone and iPad apps. Björk performed “Oceania,” a single from Medúlla, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
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Born on November 21, 1965, in Reykjavik, Iceland, Björk founded the band the Sugarcubes in 1986 before striking out on her own to a hugely successful solo career in 1993. She's known for such albums as Debut, Post, Vespertine, Medúlla, Volta and Biophilia, and for songs like "I've Seen It All," "Human Behaviour" and "Big Time Sensuality." In 2000, ...
Famed singer-songwriter and actress Björk was born Björk Guðmundsdóttir on November 21, 1965, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Having grown up in a highly musical household, Björk released her first album, a compilation of traditional Icelandic folk songs, when she was only 11 years old.
Throughout her teen years, Björk sang with a series of anarchist punk bands, among them KUKL, with other members including Einar Örn, Siggi Baldursson and Einar Melax. With several of her fellow KUKL bandmates, in 1986, Björk formed the pop group the Sugarcubes, joined by Magga Örnólfsdóttir, Bragi Ólafsson and guitarist Thór Eldon. That same year,...
In 1993, Björk released her first solo album as an adult, aptly named Debut, which featured two Top 20 singles, Human Behaviour and Big Time Sensuality, and sold nearly 3 million copies worldwide. After relocating to London, England, Björk released 1995's Post, which outsold her first album thanks to innovative collaborations with techno gurus Grah...
Following her short-lived marriage to Thór Eldon, Björk was romantically involved with several other members of the music industry, including U.K. artists Goldie and Tricky (of Massive Attack). Then, in 2000, she met Matthew Barney—the artist responsible for the Cremaster project—in New York while promoting Dancer in the Dark. The two soon began da...
May 13, 2022 · According to Crack Magazine, Bjork formed an all-female punk band called Spit and Snot (also known by the similar Saliva and Phlegm) at the age of 13.After just a few months, she dissolved the project in order to join a jazz-influenced collective called Exodus before connecting briefly and variously with a number of other punk-inspired bands like Jam 80 and Rokka Rokka Drum, and the classic ...
Aug 24, 2016 · One of Björk’s first bands was an Icelandic post-punk group, Kukl (‘black magic’ in Icelandic), that she joined when she was just 17. The band were signed to Björk’s current label One Little Indian, and were originally formed as an supergroup made up of members of avant-garde groups like Purrkur Pillnikk and Medúsa.
Nov 21, 2022 · After her voice made her an icon, Björk became something rarer: an ecosystem. November 21, 20225:01 AM ET. By. Sasha Geffen. Enlarge this image. In the three decades between her solo debut and ...
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