Working with Massive Attack's Nellee Hooper as her co-producer, she combined new compositions with songs she had written as a teenager and drew from influences such as Bollywood, exotica, and jazz as well as electronic music. She also wrote her own songs and appeared on two songs on 808 State's 1991 album ex:el, an experience that sparked her love of house music.Īfter recording and touring in support of the Sugarcubes' final album, 1992's Stick Around for Joy, Björk moved to London and embarked on her solo career.
While the band was on hiatus following the Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! tour, Björk pursued other projects, including Gling-Gló, a 1990 set of jazz standards and originals with an Icelandic bebop group called Trio Gudmundar Ingolfssonar, and a collaboration with Current 93. The Sugarcubes quickly became stars within their homeland and were also one of the rare Icelandic bands to achieve international success when their debut album, Life's Too Good, became a British and American hit in 1988. When Kukl dissolved in mid-1986, Björk, Benediktsson, and other former members founded the Smekkleysa ("Bad Taste") arts collective, which included the Sugarcubes among its projects. During this time, Björk published a book of poetry, 1984's Um Úrnat frá Björk and appeared in her first film, The Juniper Tree (which was released in 1990).
KUKL released two albums, The Eye (1984) and Holidays in Europe (1986), on Crass Records. Following Tappi Tikarrass, she formed the goth-tinged post-punk group KUKL with Einar Orn Benediktsson. In 1981, Björk and Exodus bassist Jakob Magnusson formed Tappi Tikarrass, which released an EP, Bitid Fast I Vitid, on Spor later that year it was followed by the full-length Miranda in 1983.
She formed the post-punk group Exodus in 1979 and sang in Jam 80 the following year. Released in Iceland in December 1977, Björk became a hit within Iceland and contained covers of several pop songs, including the Beatles' "Fool on the Hill."Īs the '70s came to a close, the punk revolution changed Björk's musical tastes. A contract with the Fálkinn record label followed, and Björk recorded her self-titled debut album when she was 11. She studied piano and flute at the Reykjavik school Barnamúsíkskóli when she sang Tina Charles' "I Love to Love" at a recital, her teachers sent a recording to Iceland's Radio One that was then broadcast across the nation. Later in the 2010s and into the next decade, Björk delivered powerful expressions of loss and renewal with albums including 2015's Vulnicura and 2022's Fossora, both of which reaffirmed her as one of the most influential and distinctively creative talents of her times.īorn in Reykjavik in 1965 to activist Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, Björk spent her early years living in a commune with her mother and stepfather Sævar Árnason, who was a guitarist in the band Pops. She swung from the daring softness of 2001's Vespertine to the primal vocal textures of 2004's Medúlla, and found new ways to connect humanity, technology, and music on 2011's Biophilia. She established her new artistic direction with 1993's Debut, an international, multi-platinum hit that she followed with two equally groundbreaking albums: 1995's Post, another wildly successful work that reflected her style at its poppiest even as it fused jazz, industrial, and different flavors of electronic music, and 1997's Homogenic, an uncompromising fusion of strings and fractured beats that foreshadowed her increasingly experimental direction in the years to come. When the Icelandic singer, songwriter, producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist launched her solo career, she traded the arty guitar rock of her former group the Sugarcubes for dance music and worked with some of the genre's biggest names, including Nellee Hooper, Underworld, and Tricky. A visionary artist who effortlessly blends avant-garde and pop elements, Björk makes music that is as innovative as it is emotional.
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