Bjork Biography - Profile
Birth name: Björk
Gudmundsdottir
Birthday: 21/Nov/1965
Place of birth: Reykjavik, Iceland
Raised in: Reykjavik, Iceland
Natural hair color: Black
Eye color: Green
Height: 163 cm (5'4)
Nicknames: BJ
Education / Profession: Reykjaviks Music School,
Actress, Singer
Labels: One Little Indian, Elektra, Import, Wea
International, Falikinn, Polygram
Music styles:
Electronica, Dance, Musical, Club, Dance, Alternative Pop, Rock
Claim to fame: Debut - 1993
Awards:
> Brit Awards: 1994, 1996, 1998
> MTV Video Music Awards: 1996 (It's Oh So Quiet),
1998 (Bachelorette), 2000 (All Is Full Of Love)
> MTV Europe Music Awards: 1995
> Q-Awards: 2005
How it all started:
Björk Gudmundsdottir was born on
November 21, 1965 in Reykjavik, Iceland to electrician Gudmundur
Gunnarsson and Hildur Hauksdottir. Her parents divorced before
she reached her second birthday and she, her seven brothers and
sisters and her mother moved to a hippie community where she
grew up.
Björk studied piano and flute
at Reykjavik’s musical college since she was 6 and at the age of
10, with radio representatives being present at her school show
where she sang I Love to Love, she was asked to make a record
with Icelandic record company Falkinn. The album, simply called
Björk, was released in 1977 when Björk was 11, turning her into
a local child star – and her school into a nuisance of teasing.
She appeared on the music
stage again in 1979 with the arrival of punk on the Icelandic
soil, shaved off her eyebrows and started to play drums in a
girl feminist band Spit and Snot. She went through several bands
till 1986, namely Exodus, Jam 80, Tappi Tikkarass and KUKL.
These bands were popular in Iceland but all members had to have
their everyday full-time jobs to make a living – Björk made hers
in a fish factory and a Coke bottling plant.
After the
split-up of KUKL, Björk joined a new-formed band, Sykurmolarnir
(later anglicizing their name to The Sugarcubes – a literal
translation) consisting of several ex-KUKLs and her first
husband Thor Eldon who fathered her son Sindri. The Sugarcubes
made their international breakthrough in 1986 with a song called
Birthday (originally Ammaeli) which became the first Icelandic
song to hit the charts outside Iceland. Several albums later,
the band split up in 1993. The same year, Björk released her
first (adult) solo album – Debut, which started her fascinating
solo career as we all know it.
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