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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. She also sometimes plays instruments during her recording sessions.
Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1965, the daughter of an electrician and an activist. ... When Björk throws covers of songs written in the ’40s and ’50s into the ...
The next year, Björk starred in and composed the soundtrack for Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9. Björk released her sixth studio album, Volta, in 2007. The album was her first to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart, while its first single "Earth Intruders" is Björk highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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.
Topics about Björk songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories Pages in category "Björk songs" The following 162 pages are in this category, out ...
Björk performing in Japan with the Sugarcubes. Debut departed from the rock music of Björk's former bands.. While performing as the vocalist of Icelandic alternative rock group the Sugarcubes, Björk approached Ásmundur Jónsson of Bad Taste and producer Derek Birkett of One Little Indian Records with a demo cassette of her own songs.
It is the only one of Björk's album covers that includes both a logo and a title. Greatest Hits was released on the same day as Björk's Family Tree box set, which contained a "greatest hits" disc on which the songs were chosen by Björk. Greatest Hits and the greatest hits "as chosen by Björk" have seven tracks in common.
The song aims to bring attention to the environmental and ecological consequences of open-pen ocean salmon farming in Björk's native Iceland. ... The 50 Best Songs of the Year.