Biography: Björk
Author: Chloe Aidan
Björk Gudmundsdottir was born November 21, 1965, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Björk is a singer, actress and songwriter of Icelandic origin, is well known for his constant interest in various genres of music like pop, alternative rock, jazz, electronica and folk, has won many awards and has been nominated for Grammy awards 12 times. It has sold over 15 million copies of his album ‘One Little Indian’ in 2003, his newest album ‘Volta’ released in May 2007. It has been considered in the list ‘of the top 100 women of Rock% Roll’.
Björk musical career began when she was just eleven years, with their basic education while studying piano at school, when one of his teachers decided to send a tape of the girl playing Tina Turner’s song “I Love to Love ‘and immediately rang at that time was the only radio station in Iceland and became one of the most requested. At 14 he formed his first band which he named ‘Spit and Snot’, heavily influenced by punk rock in 1979 formed another group ‘Exodus’ this time influenced by jazz.
In 1986 he formed another band called ‘The Sugarcubes’ whose first single ‘Ammæli’ or ‘Birthday’ became a surprise hit in the United Kingdom, but the band broke up in 1992 and began his field Björk as a solo artist, his first single ‘Human Behaviour’ which would be translated as ‘Human Behavior’, their first album ‘Debut’ was released in 1993 and received very good reviews.
Her album ‘Volta’ was mostly written and produced by Björk and it has 10 new songs, the album’s first single ‘Earth Intruders’ and became his first album placed in the top ten of the Billboard, was placed in the top three positions in the French charts.