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Ricardo López (January 14, 1975 – September 12, 1996) was a Uruguayan-born American stalker who attempted to murder the Icelandic singer Björk.. López was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and moved to Lawrenceville, Georgia, with his family at a young age, and began working as a pest exterminator.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born on 21 November 1965 in Reykjavík. [12] She was raised by her mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir (7 October 1946 – 25 October 2018 [13]), an activist who protested against the development of Iceland's Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, [14] having divorced from Björk's father, Guðmundur Gunnarsson, an electrician and union leader, after Björk was born.
"The Dull Flame of Desire" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Björk featuring Anohni from the band Anohni and the Johnsons. It was released as the fifth and final single from her sixth full-length studio album, Volta, on 29 September 2008. [1] She sang it twelve times on her global Volta tour, often with Anohni. [2]
Icelandic singer and songwriter Björk has recorded more than two hundred songs for ten studio albums, two soundtrack albums, a compilation album, six remix albums and three collaboration albums. She is the sole writer and producer of most of the songs included in her albums.
[18] Peter Buckley thought the song was a stand-out track and that it "[emphasizes] her skills as composer, singer and producer." [ 21 ] In the Homogenic review for Pitchfork ' s Top 100 Albums of the 1990s, Dominique Leone of wrote that only in "Pluto", Björk "[steps] out from her cocoon in a fit of rage, although even then an air of intrigue ...
Vespertine, the singer's fourth studio album, was released in 2001 and was certified Gold in the UK. The following year, Björk released her Greatest Hits compilation, a companion box-set, Family Tree , and a series of live albums, collected in the Live Box box set.
Bjork’s albums over the last 20 years or so have been epic journeys, deep in innovation and imagination, but often not exactly approachable — sort of like a James Joyce novel, the listener is ...
It features the singer driving an enormous vehicle through a city, fighting a gorilla dentist to get back a diamond he took from her mouth, and bombing a museum with dynamite to free a boy. In 2005, Björk released a UNICEF charity benefit compilation entitled Army of Me: Remixes and Covers , which featured a series of covers and remixes by ...