Bjork

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (Reykjavik, 21 november 1965) is an Icelandic singer and songwriter. Björk is the former lead singer of the alternative rock band The Sugarcubes and has since 1993 a solo career under the name Björk.

She is known for her interest in a wide variety of music genres, including pop, alternative rock, jazz, electronic and classical music. Her music label One Little Indian in 2003 shared that Björk has sold over 15 million albums worldwide. [1]  Björk has in the past also worked as actress in movies several times, she held the lead role in the filmDancer in the Dark by the Danish Director Lars von Trier.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == ===Early career[ Edit] === Björk's musical career started when she was eleven years and studied classical piano . One of her teachers sent a recording of Björk which the song "I Love to Love" by Tina Charles has performed to the RÚV; the RÚV was at that time the only radio station in Iceland. This recording was then broadcast and in response to this, it offered a record deal to record label Fálkinn Björk. In 1977 was Björk's debut album, which bore the title Björk, released. The album consisted of a number of Icelandic children's songs and covers of popular songs such as "The Fool on the Hill" by the Beatles, that's Björk was sung in Icelandic. Her step-father accompanied her on the album with his guitar. The album earned a Platinum status in Iceland and is currently a true collectors item.
 * 1.1 Early Career
 * 1.2 The Sugarcubes
 * 1.3 Solo career
 * 1.3.1 Debut
 * 1.3.2 Post/Telegram
 * 1.3.3 Homogenic
 * 1.3.4 Vespertine
 * Reactable 1.3.5
 * Volta 1.3.6
 * Biophilia 1.3.7
 * 1.4 Film career
 * 1.5 private life
 * 2 Trivia
 * 3 discography
 * 3.1 Albums
 * 3.2 Singles
 * 3.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 3.4 Dvds
 * 4 footnotes
 * 5 external links

In 1980 Björk studied at the Conservatory. In 1980, she formed the band along with bassist Jakob Magnússon Jam-80, which later became the band Tappi Tíkarrass. "Bítið Fast í Vítið" the single was released in the same year. Miranda the album was released in 1983.

Björk then went a partnership with Einar Örn Benediktsson and Einar Melax from Purrkur Pillnikk band and Guðlaugur Óttarsson, Sigtryggur Baldursson and Raymond Mogensen of the band Þeyr. After they had written some songs together and decided they had rehearsed a few weeks together under the name of KUKL by going.

KUKL toured Iceland with anarchist by the punk band CRASS from England, and later they visited England for a number of concerts with Flux of Pink Indians. As a result of these collaborations the band produced two albums: The Eye in 1984 and Holidays in Europe in 1986. Both albums were issued by the label Crass Records.

Björk formed In 1984 together with Guitarist Guðlaugur Óttarsson in KUKL and the duo The Elgar Sisters.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">KUKL disbanded, partly because their label Gramm stopped. In the summer of 1986, some members of KUKL and the surrealist group Medusa got a cooperation and became the arts collective Smekkleysa (bad taste) was established. There was a musical Division was established, the band again called Kukl, but soon became the name of the band changed to The Sugarcubes. ===The Sugarcubes<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The first single by The Sugarcubes was "Ammæli" (or "Birthday", in the English version). After the single became a hit in the United Kingdom, the band was housed at the One Little Indianlabel, which was founded byDerek Birkett, the former bass player of Flux of Pink Indians. Then The Sugarcubes also signed a distribution contract with the American Elektra Records. The Sugarcubes In 1988 names their first album, life's Too Good, earned the band with this album on. international successes. Meanwhile loved Björk also deals with some of the smaller projects. In 1990 she took the album Gling-Gló Trio Guðmundar Ingólfssonar with the jazz group, which was only released in Iceland. Björk also provided the vocals in some songs on the album Ex: el by 808 State. This cooperation sparked her interest in house music to. ===Solo Career<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ====Debut<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1992 The Sugarcubes decided to part ways. The members of the band realized that they all had different ambitions. Björk moved to London and started thinking about a solo career. She began working with producer Nellee Hooper, who previously had produced, among other things, all for Massive Attack. Björk's first international solo hit came from this cooperation, "Human Behaviour", on. The Debut album was released in June 1993. Debut consisted of a mix of songs Björk had written since she was a teenager and songs she had written with Hooper. NME called the album to album of the year. ====Post/Telegram<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Björk returned to the studio in 1994 to work with Nellee Hooper, Tricky, Graham Massey of 808 State, and producer Howie B to work on a new album. The album Post was the result of this collaboration. Like Debutwas a collection of songs that partly consisted of songs that Björk had written in previous years. In January 1997 Telegram was released, an album of previously unreleased remixes of the songs on Post. ====Homogenic<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Later that year, released the album Homogenic . This album marked a dramatic break with her earlier "Pixie" image cultivated on Debut and Post. Björk Homogenic together with producers worked for Mark Bell ofLFO, Howie B and Eumir Deodato. Homogenic was her first concept album and is seen as one of Björk's most experimental and extroverted albums so far, with its powerful beats that reflect the landscape of Iceland. ====Vespertine<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2001 brought Björk Vespertine her fourth solo album out. Björk on the album creates an introverted, personal world filled with small micro beats and rhythms. Vespertine is a pretty strong contrast with the albumHomogenic, which still beats strongly extroverted texts and fairly aggressive predominate. Björk worked on the album along with the experimental music group Matmos, the Danish DJ Thomas hot dog and harpistZeena Parkins. Björk made on the album include use of texts of the American poet e. e. Cummings and the American filmmaker Harmony Korine. Björk then made a tour of theatres and opera houses in Europe and North America. She was accompanied by Matmos, Zeena Parkins and an Inuitchoir, that they had composed after auditions during a trip to Greenland. ====Reactable<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2004, the Reactable, a released album. The majority of the sounds on this album are created by vocalists (although the sounds are often electronically distorted). Björk on the album made use of the vocal skills of throat singer Tagaq, hip hop beatboxer Rahzel, Japanese beatboxer the Dokaka, avant-rocker Mike Patton, Soft Machine drummer and singer Robert Wyatt, and several choirs. Björk also made use of again a poem by the poet e. e. Cummings, this time for the song "Sonnets/Unrealities XI".

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In August 2004, Björk on during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics. She brought the song "Oceania", submitted by performed the Reactable . ====Volta<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Björk's sixth studio album Volta is released on 4 May 2007. It is the successor of Reactable, from 2004. There have many people contributed, including Timbaland, Chris Corsano, lightning bolt, the drummer of the African Group Konono No. 1, Toumani Diabaté, Mark Bell (LFO) who also competed with previous projects by Björk, Antony (Antony & The Jonsons) and Chinese pipa expert Min Xiao-Fen.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The first single "Earth Intruders", inspired by the Tsunami disaster and a nightmare that Björk had during a flight when visiting the site of the disaster, was released digitally on 9 april 2007. The second single from the album, "Innocence", was digitally released on 23 July 2007. "Wanderlust" and "Declare Independence" will the following singles are.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Since then she appeared in Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall in New York and at the Glastonbury Festival in England. On 8 July 2007 she gave a concert in the westerpark Amsterdam. ====Biophilia<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Björk was heard on the soundtrack of the film Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010). Her seventh studio album, entitled Biophilia, was released on 19 July 2011 if app for the iPhone and iPad. In september that year came from Biophilia as music download and on cd and vinyl. ===Film Career<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Björk's intermittent acting career began in 1990, when she appeared in the Icelandic (but English spoken) black-and-white film The Juniper Tree, which was based on the short story by the Brothers Grimm. Björk played the role of Margit, a girl whose mother had been murdered because she was involved in witchcraft. Björk then had a small role as a supermodel in the film Prêt-à-Porter (1994).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Björk In 2000 played the lead role in the Danish-French film Dancer in the Dark, which was written and directed by Lars von Trier. Björk plays in this film, set in the United States, the role of the Czechoslovakian immigrant Selma. Selma tries with her work in a factory to save money together for an eye surgery that will prevent her son will be blind. Björk also provided the soundtrack to this film, which was released on cd under the name Selma songs. The album includes a duet with Thom Yorke of Radioheadtitled "I've Seen it All". The song was nominated for an Academy Award and performed during the presentation of the Oscars in 2001.On the Cannes Film festival in 2000, the film received a Palme d'Or and was declared best actress Björk to.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2005, Björk in the American-Japanese film Drawing Restraint 9 , directed by Matthew Barney, who is also her partner. Björk is also responsible for the soundtrack for the movie.

<p lang="en" len="407" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Björk also appeared prominently in the documentary Screaming masterpiece from 2005, which sheds light on the Icelandic music scene. ===Private Life<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Björk has a son and a daughter. Her son, Sindri Eldon Þórsson, was born on June 8, 1986. The father of Sindri Þór Eldon, who is also a member of The Sugarcubes. Her daughter Ísadóra is called; She was born on 3 October 2002 . Ísadóra's father is artist Matthew Barney, the current boyfriend of Björk.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Two different incidents In 1996 brought Björk to the attention of the media. The first incident took place at the airport in Bangkok. After Björk had made air travel a long waited a large group of journalists and cameramen her there on. when a journalist her greeted with the words "Welcome to Bangkok", Björk was too much and she fell to the journalist. The second incident took place later that year when a mental fan from Florida, Ricardo López called, tried to send a hollowed out book containing explosives Björk. López filmed himself during the manufacture of the bomb, and shot himself dead after he had sent it. The Police intercepted the book before the Björk reached. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===DVDs<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Footnotes<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Björk had been approached to "Gollums's Song", the title song from The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002) to sing. She has rejected because she was pregnant. The Icelandic Emilíana Torrini has this song eventually taken on its behalf.
 * Björk has specially for the song Madonna Bedtime Story written. Madonna wanted Björk would write an entire album for her but this refused Björk. Madonna has called when her album Bedtime Stories .
 * Björk said in interviews after they had taken up Dancer in the Dark never want more in a film acting. It was so intense for her that they found enough so. However, in 2005 in the film appeared Björk Drawing Restraint 9 in a leading role.
 * In the film Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise is to see them as David Aames (Cruise) when main character in a flashback the video clip sees Big Time Sensuality .
 * 2001- MTV Unplugged/Live (One Little Indian)
 * 2001- Live at Shepherds Bush Empire (One Little Indian)
 * 2001- Live in Cambridge (One Little Indian)
 * 2002- Greatest Hits-Volumen 1993-2003 (One Little Indian)
 * 2002- Live at Royal Opera House (One Little Indian)
 * 2003- Vessel (One Little Indian)
 * 2003- Later with Jools Holland (One Little Indian)
 * 2003- Minuscule (One Little Indian)
 * 2003- Inside Bjork (One Little Indian)
 * 2004- The Inner or Deep Part of an Animal or Plant Structure (One Little Indian)
 * 2005- The Reactable Videos (One Little Indian)
 * 2008- Voltaic (One Little Indian)
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