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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.
Homogenic is the third studio album by Icelandic recording artist Björk. [a] It was released on 22 September 1997 by One Little Indian Records.Produced by Björk, Mark Bell, Guy Sigsworth, Howie B, and Markus Dravs, the album marked a stylistic change, focusing on similar-sounding music combining electronic beats and string instruments with songs in tribute to her native country Iceland.
In promotion of her latest two albums, 2017's Utopia and 2022's Fossora, Björk performed the Cornucopia show from 2019 through 2023.The ambitious production — "a monster to travel with," she ...
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"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]
[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 ...
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 ...