“To take this much energy from geothermal fields is not even sustainable as it might cool down the fields in only two decades.”
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Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer and actress. Noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and eccentric public persona, she has developed an eclectic musical style over a career spanning five decades, drawing on electronica, pop, dance, trip hop, jazz, and avant-garde music. She is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of he…
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It can build fewer, smaller and greener dams. We can use this economical crisis to become totally sustainable, and teach the world all we know about geothermal power plants. “It may take longer to build and deliver profits,
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2026· 4 entries
“It can build fewer, smaller and greener dams. We can use this economical crisis to become totally sustainable, and teach the world all we know about geothermal power plants. “It may take longer to build and deliver profits,”
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Vogue: The Story Behind Björk’s Robert Wun Balloon Look—and Her Solar Eclipse Rave in Iceland
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Released album “Orkestral”.
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2025· 17 entries
Released album “cornucopia : live”.
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Published video “Body Memory (Live)”.
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Published video “Fossora / Atopos (Live)”.
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Published video “Features Creatures (Live)”.
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Published video “Losss (Live)”.
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Published video “Show Me Forgiveness (Live)”.
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Published video “Isobel (Live)”.
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Published video “Family (intro) (Live)”.
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Published video “Arisen My Senses (Live)”.
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Published video “Sue Me (Live)”.
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Published video “The Gate (Live)”.
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Published video “björk : fossora (cornucopia cinema teaser)”.
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Published video “björk : cornucopia (Official Trailer)”.
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Published video “björk : losss (Cornucopia, Apple Music Live)”.
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Released album “Apple Music Live: Björk (Cornucopia)”.
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Cornucopia, a concert film chronicling a performance in Lisbon during the last leg of the Cornucopia tour, directed by Ísold Uggadóttir, premiered on Apple TV+ as part of the Apple Music Live series, with a full-length v
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Björk was featured on Rosalía's "Berghain" alongside Yves Tumor
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2024· 2 entries
Released album “Apple Music Live: NYE 2025”.
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Björk appeared on the April/May cover of Vogue Scandinavia, her first ever Vogue cover, photographed by Viðar Logi wearing Maison Margiela
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2023· 8 entries
Published video “björk ft. rosalía : oral”.
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The Guardian: ‘Can we save the wild salmon of Iceland?’: Björk releases ‘lost’ song to fight fish farming
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Published video “help fight fish farming in iceland”.
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Published video “introducing victimhood : björk in conversation with gabríela friðriksdóttir”.
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Published video “björk : victimhood”.
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Published video “björk : fossora”.
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Published video “björk ft. shygirl : ovule (sega bodega remix)”.
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Released album “Live in Toronto 1995”.
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2022· 3 entries
Published video “björk : atopos (sideproject remix)”.
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Released album “Fossora”.
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Björk stated her reasoning for going back to Iceland was because of gun violence in the United States
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2021· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A small Icelandic island has a house with a dark truth about why it's empty, and Björk once lived there.” False.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
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2019· 1 entry
Released album “Björk’s Vespertine: A Pop Album as an Opera”.
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2017· 3 entries
Released album “Utopia”.
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Released album “The Cover Mix: Björk”.
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Björk released Utopia, which harkened back to previous works such as Vespertine and Homogenic, combining organic and electronic elements
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2015· 4 entries
Released album “Vulnicura Live”.
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Released album “Vulnicura Strings”.
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Released album “Vulnicura”.
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Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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2014· 4 entries
Released album “Biophilia Live”.
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Björk helped to organise Stopp, Let's Protect the Park, an event organised to raise money and awareness for the preservation of Icelandic nature
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Björk posted on social media dedicating the song in support of the Yes vote in Scotland's referendum on their independence
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The apps were the first ever to be inducted into the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection
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2013· 2 entries
Released album “Biophilia Live Collection”.
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Björk featured in a Channel 4 documentary along with Sir David Attenborough called When Björk Met Attenborough, as part of their Mad4Music season of programmes
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2012· 1 entry
Released album “Bastards”.
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2011· 1 entry
Released album “Biophilia”.
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2010· 3 entries
Released ep “Mount Wittenberg Orca”.
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Awarded Polar Music Prize (2010).
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Dueted with fellow Icelander (and One Little Indian labelmate) Ólöf Arnalds on a track called "Surrender" from Arnalds's new album, Innundir skinni, and performed a duet with Anohni on the Antony and the Johnsons alb
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “Voltaïc”.
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Released album “Debut / Post”.
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Björk helped promote fellow Icelandic musician Ólöf Arnalds, who is also a member of the Icelandic folktronica band múm
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2008· 3 entries
Björk dedicated "Declare Independence" to the International Tibet Independence Movement in a Shanghai concert, chanting "Tibet
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Björk wrote the foreword to the English translation of Andri Snær Magnason's bestseller book titled Dreamland – A Self Help Manual For A Frightened Nation
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“s bestseller book titled Dreamland – A Self Help Manual For A Frightened Nation. On 21 May 2010, Björk wrote an open letter in The Reykjavík Grapevine calling on the Icelandic government to”
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “Volta”.
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Received coverage after the inclusion of R&B producer Timbaland; however, NME wrote that "this is not Björk 'going hip-hop' or having a late-breaking pop reinvention
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “(____surrounded):”.
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Björk remastered her first three solo studio albums (Debut, Post, Homogenic) and her two soundtrack albums (Selmasongs and Drawing Restraint 9) in 5
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In which Björk stated about HK119's work: "It's unique
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2005· 6 entries
Released album “Drawing Restraint 9”.
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Released album “Army of Me – Remixes and Covers”.
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Released album “Barnabarn”.
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Björk collaborated with partner Matthew Barney on the experimental art film Drawing Restraint 9, a dialogueless exploration of Japanese culture
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“Depois de ganhar o prêmio de melhor atriz em Cannes, pelo filme Dancer in the Dark”
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“Sabe, é irônico que bem no momento em que os advogados e homens de negócios calcularam como controlar a música, a Internet vem e fode a coisa toda" [Acenando com o dedo do meio no ar] "Deus salve a Internet" E quanto a você? "Eu vou estar lá, agitando uma bandeira pirata.”
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2004· 8 entries
Released album “Medúlla”.
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Released album “Debut Live”.
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Took part in the Hætta concert in Reykjavík, organised in protest against the building of Alcoa aluminium smelters in the country, which would make Iceland the biggest smelter in Europe
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Tagaq was invited to collaborate on the a cappella album Medúlla, in which the duet "Ancestors" was recorded
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Arab discovered the work of Finnish multimedia artist Heidi Kilpeläinen, who had taken her combination of lo-fi, homemade electro pop with her own self-produced music videos and combined them under the alter ego characte
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Arab announced HK119 as her favourite act of 2004
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Released album “Raw and Rare”.
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Björk has been open about her bisexuality, stating in a 2004 interview with Diva that she has "always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic.
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2003· 10 entries
Released album “Later With Jools Holland”.
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Released album “Livebox”.
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Released album “Homogenic Live”.
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Released album “Post Live”.
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Released album “Vespertine Live”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits: Volumen 1993–2003”.
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Released album “Livebox Sampler”.
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Björk released a box set, Live Box, consisting of four CDs containing live recordings of her previous albums and a DVD featuring a video of one track from each CD
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Released album “The Iceland Mysteries”.
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The album was ranked number 373 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
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2002· 7 entries
Released album “Vespertine Live at Royal Opera House”.
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Released album “Family Tree”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Rare B‐Sides”.
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Released album “The AUDIOPHILE Mix”.
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It was aired unedited as part of a late night special on MTV2 titled, "Most Controversial Music Videos"
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Released album “No Place Like Home”.
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2001· 10 entries
Released album “Shepherds Bush Empire”.
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Released album “MTV Unplugged & Live”.
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Released album “Vespertine”.
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Released album “Björk”.
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Awarded Bodil Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Dancer in the Dark (2001).
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Björk released the album Vespertine
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Björk invited Canadian Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq to perform on several dates of Björk's Vespertine world tour as a special guest
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Released album “Bring On the Eskimoes”.
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Released album “Gold Collection 2001”.
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And it was played then for a slide show presentation in 2003 for the American photographer, Nan Goldin
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2000· 5 entries
Released album “Selmasongs”.
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Awarded Edda Award for Best Leading Actor or Actress for Dancer in the Dark (2000).
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Actress for Dancer in the Dark (2000).
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Awarded Jameson People's Choice Award for Best Actress for Dancer in the Dark (2000).
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Released album “Collection 2000”.
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1999· 6 entries
Released album “Hypergenic”.
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Björk was asked to write and produce the musical score for the film Dancer in the Dark, a musical drama about an immigrant named Selma who is struggling to pay for an operation to prevent her son from going blind
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Released album “The Mystic of Iceland”.
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Released album “Cambridge”.
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Released album “Singles Collection ’99”.
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Released album “MTV History 2000: Björk”.
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1998· 8 entries
Released album “Volumen”.
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Released album “Emotional Landscapes”.
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Released album “Kiss Me: Greatest Hits ’98”.
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Björk invited Magga to perform as her support act on the Homogenic tour
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Released album “The Iceland Saga”.
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Released album “Quiet Fireworks”.
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Björk established her own short-lived record label, Ear Records, which operated under the One Little Indian Records umbrella
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Released album “Magic”.
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1997· 4 entries
Released album “Homogenic”.
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Awarded Nordic Council Music Prize (1997).
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Released ep “Celebrating Wood and Metal”.
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Released album “Cover Me”.
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1996· 7 entries
Released album “Telegram”.
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Where she recorded the album Homogenic, released in 1997
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Released album “1995‐08‐07: Warehouse, Toronto, ON, Canada”.
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Released album “Tibetan Freedom Concert”.
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Released album “It’s Show Time”.
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Björk showed her appreciation for expressionist composer Arnold Schoenberg, as she covered Pierrot Lunaire, originally from 1912
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Released album “Diamond Collection”.
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1995· 6 entries
Released album “Post”.
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Released album “Hyperbolic”.
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Björk recalled Arab for her second touring band for tour in support of Post
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Released album “Acoustic 1994”.
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Released album “Unplugged”.
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Released album “Unplugged + Bonus Tracks”.
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1994· 9 entries
Released album “Vessel”.
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Released ep “The Best Mixes From the Album – Debut for All the People Who Don’t Buy White‐Labels”.
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Released album “Sugar Candy Kisses”.
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Released album “The Second Debut”.
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Released album “1993‐11‐19: Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, USA”.
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Released album “Live Debut”.
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Released album “Live Behaviour”.
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Released album “The Live Debut”.
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Released album “Comeback”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Debut”.
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Has been credited as one of the first albums to introduce electronic music into mainstream pop
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That it was the only "pop music that is truly modern" and "place where anything creative is happening today
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1992· 1 entry
Björk gained prominence as a solo artist with her albums Debut (1993), Post (1995), and Homogenic (1997), which blended electronic, pop, and avant-garde music and achieved significant critical success
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “Gling‐Gló”.
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Provided background vocals on Gums by Bless
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1987· 1 entry
Album Loftmynd by Megas, for whom she provided background vocals also on his subsequent album, Höfuðlausnir (1988), and Hættuleg hljómsveit & glæpakvendið Stella (1990)
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1986· 1 entry
Released in 1990), a tale of witchcraft based on the Brothers Grimm story, directed by Nietzchka Keene
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1984· 1 entry
Followed by a two-month tour in Europe, which also included a performance at Roskilde Festival in Denmark
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1981· 1 entry
And bassist Jakob Magnússon formed another group, Tappi Tíkarrass ("Cork the Bitch's Ass" in Icelandic), and released the EP Bitið fast í vitið ("Bite Hard Into the Mind" in Icelandic), in August 1982
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1980· 1 entry
Formed a jazz fusion group, Exodus, collaborated in another group, JAM80, and graduated from music school
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1965· 1 entry
Born 1965-11-21.
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