Around this time, Björk met guitarist Þór Eldon and surrealist group Medusa, which also included poet Sjón, with whom she started a lifelong collaboration and formed a group, Rokka Rokka Drum. The group was featured in the documentary Rokk í Reykjavík, with Björk being featured on the cover of the VHS release. Their album Miranda was released in December 1983. In 1982, she and bassist Jakob Magnússon formed another group, Tappi Tíkarrass ("Cork the Bitch's Ass" in Icelandic), and released EP Bitið fast í vitið ("Bite Hard Into Hell" in Icelandic), in August 1982. In 1980, she formed a jazz fusion group, Exodus, collaborated in another group, JAM80, and graduated from music school. ĭuring her teens, after the diffusion of punk rock music in Iceland, Björk formed the all-girl punk band Spit and Snot. Her début, Björk, was recorded when she was 11 years old and was released in Iceland in December 1977. The recording was nationally broadcast and, after hearing it, a representative of the Fálkinn record label offered Björk a recording contract. After a school recital in which Björk sang Tina Charles's 1976 hit " I Love to Love", her teachers sent a recording of her singing the song to the RÚV radio station, which was then Iceland's only radio station. At six, Björk enrolled at Reykjavík school Barnamúsíkskóli, where she studied classical piano and flute. Her stepfather is Sævar Árnason, a former guitarist in the band Pops. They divorced when Björk was born and she moved with her mother to a commune. Her father is Guðmundur Gunnarsson, a union leader and electrician. Her mother was activist Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir (7 October 1946 – 25 October 2018 ), who protested against the development of Iceland's Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant. Life and career 1965–1984: Early life and career beginnings ījörk was born on 21 November 1965 in Reykjavík, where she grew up. 1.9 2017–present: Utopia, The Northman and tenth studio album.1.5 2001–2003: Vespertine and Greatest Hits.1.4 1997–2000: Homogenic and Dancer in the Dark.1.2 1985–1992: The Sugarcubes, marriage and motherhood.1.1 1965–1984: Early life and career beginnings.A retrospective exhibition dedicated to Björk was held at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2015. Björk has also been an advocate for environmental causes in Iceland. Biophilia was marketed as an interactive app album with its own education program. Rolling Stone named her the 60th greatest singer and the 81st greatest songwriter.ījörk starred in the 2000 Lars von Trier film Dancer in the Dark, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " I've Seen It All". In 2015, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Her accolades and awards include the Order of the Falcon, five BRIT Awards, and 15 Grammy nominations. Thirty-one of her singles have reached the top 40 on pop charts around the world, with 22 top-40 hits in the UK, including the top-10 singles " It's Oh So Quiet", " Army of Me", and " Hyperballad" and the top-20 singles " Play Dead", " Big Time Sensuality", and " Violently Happy". As of 2015, she had sold between 20 and 40 million records worldwide. Several of Björk's albums have reached the top 20 on the US Billboard 200 chart.
After the band's breakup in 1992, Björk embarked on a solo career, coming to prominence with albums such as Debut (1993), Post (1995), and Homogenic (1997), while collaborating with a range of artists and exploring a variety of multimedia projects. Over her four-decade career, she has developed an eclectic musical style that draws on influences and genres including electronic, pop, jazz, experimental, trip hop, alternative, classical, and avant-garde music.īorn and raised in Reykjavík, Björk began her music career at the age of 11 and gained international recognition as the lead singer of the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonarījörk Guðmundsdóttir OTF ( / ˈ b j ɜːr k/ BYURK Icelandic: ( listen) born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and actress.