Bjork´s Biography.
Bjork Gudmundsdottir (who is known populary just as Bjork) is the wildest vocalist of popular music (Pop) because of her life creating artful and her experimental music wich defies any classification. She was born on November 21 of 1965 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Reykjavik is a town where nobody could imagine that someone of there would someday become the world´s best-known Icelandic musician.
Bjork had actually been a professional vocalist since she was a child. When she was in elementary school in Reykjavik she studied classical piano, flute and voice. When she was eleven a tape of her singing "I love to love" (Tina Charles) was aired on Iceland´s Radio One. After that, Falkkin was the record lavel which offered Bjork a record contract. So at the age of 11 she made her first album which contained covers of several pop songs.
She married to Thor Eldon, who was a guitarist. They had a son, Sindri, who was born on June 8 of 1986. On the same day that Sindri was born, Bjork and Thor founded a new band: Sugarcubes. This was their band which made three albums: Life´s too good (1988), Here Today Tomorrow Next Week (1990), and Stick Around for Joy (1992). However, the band broke up the same year that they released their third album. In that year Bjork and Thor also broke up.
Having split up with Thor, Bjork an her son moved to London, the country where she started her solo career. The move allowed her to work with British producers of dance music like Nellee Hooper. Nellee was the person who helped Bjork record her first album: Debut (1993). This album received a lot of reviews and comments. Her second album was Post (1995), which didn´t make the same kind of sales impact as Debut. In 1997 she released her third album: Telegram. It contained re-mixes of Post. That same year Bjork released Homogenic, an album which is one of her most experimental studio effort.
In 2000 she won the Best Actress at The Cannes Film Festival in Lars von Trier´s Dancer in the Dark. In 2002 Bjork released another album: Vespertine. She had a busy 2004 which included the release of her album Medulla and a performance of one of its songs, Oceania, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. In 2005 she made a soundtrack to Drawing Restraint 9, a film which belongs to the multimedia artist Matthew Barney.
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