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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.
[8] [9] After receiving a Best Original Song nomination for "I've Seen It All", Björk performed the song at the 73rd Academy Awards, while dressed in her swan dress. [10] To promote her fourth album Vespertine (2001), Björk embarked on a worldwide tour of opera houses and theaters, backed by a 54-piece orchestra. [11]
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.
Adrien Begrand of PopMatters criticised Björk for releasing various CD and DVD collections following 2001's Vespertine and also bemoaned the substitution of the promotional TV performances over the complete Shepherd's Bush show but praised her performances on Post Live: "Björk and her five-piece band are on fire on this recording, deftly ...
Many of the songs were taken multiple times to perfect them for the TV broadcast, and the night was capped with a cover of Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine", a song Björk has never recorded in studio. Björk's MTV Unplugged concert was released on DVD as part of the collection MTV Unplugged / Live on 9 February 2002.
Björk started her career after a recording of her rendition of Tina Charles' 1976 song "I Love to Love" became popular on Icelandic radio. Her first eponymous solo release, considered juvenilia, [b] was released under Fálkinn label in 1977.
Björk performed "I've Seen It All" at the 73rd Academy Awards, where the song was nominated for Best Original Song, with a 55-piece orchestra wearing her swan dress. She said before performing on the show, "I'm really excited [to perform]. I won many awards [and] I've been to a lot of [award] shows. This is the most exciting one for me.
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