Bjork - An Overview of Bjork’s work –
Bjork or Bjork Guomundsdottir is a singer, composer, songwriter, music producer and actress of Iceland. She received nominations for one Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and thirteen Grammy Awards. Bjork is popular for her expressive songs and for her involvement with different ranges of music like jazz, electronica, ambient music, alternative rock, folk and pop. She is also known widely for her peculiar outfits.
Many singles by Bjork, which have topped the music chart of UK Top 10, include “Hyperballad”, “It’s Oh So Quiet” and “Army of Me”. “One Little Indian”, record label of Bjork, estimated that over 15 million albums of her have been sold all across the world. On the 8th of May, 2007, “Volta”, her latest album, came out. She was at the 36th position on “The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll” of Music First or Video Hits One, and 8th position on “22 Greatest Voices in Music” of Music Television or MTV.
Early career of Bjork –
Born and brought up in Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, Bjork started her musical career at the age of 11 with her classical piano study in primary school. The song of Tina Charles, “I Love to Love” was sung by her and was aired nationwide. A Falkinn representative signed Bjork and her album “Bjork” came out in 1977.
Bjork was impressed by punk rock and created ‘Spit and Snot’, a punk band of girls when she was 14. In 1979 she formed ‘Exodus’, a jazz fusion band. Bjork obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in music in 1980. ‘Jam-80’, another music band was created by Jakob Magnusson, a bassist, and Bjork. This band was renamed afterwards as Tappi Tikarrass. Bjork later teamed up with Einar Melax, Einar Orn Benediktsson and Sigtryggur Baldursson and created Gothic Rock music for a new band called ‘KUKL’. |
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After this band dissolved she again joined together to form another band named ‘KUKL’, which was again renamed as ‘The Sugarcubes’.
‘The Sugarcubes’ –
The first single released by ‘The Sugarcubes’ was ‘Ammæli’. It was quite popular in the United States. The first album of ‘The Sugarcubes’ with the American Elektra Records was “Life’s Too Good”. It was released in 1988.
Albums of Bjork –
In 1993 solo career of Bjork started with the release of her album ‘Debut’. Other successful albums released by Bjork include ‘Post’, ‘Homogenic’, ‘Vespertine’, ‘Army of Me’, ‘Medulla’ and ‘Volta’.
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