Bjork
Bjork
Björk Guðmundsdóttir, known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Over her three-decade career, she has developed an eclectic musical style that draws on a wide range of influences and genres spanning electronic, pop, experimental, trip hop, dance, classical, and avant-garde styles. She initially became known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band The Sugarcubes, whose 1987 single "Birthday" was a hit on US and UK indie stations and a favorite among music critics. Björk embarked on a...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth21 November 1965
CityReykjavik, Iceland
People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.
I am a grateful... grapefruit.
Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.
Create a paradise anywhere you go.
What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.
All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals...and they killed Elvis Presley.
Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas... We were the first rappers of Europe.
I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.
I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.