Short Björk biography

• 1965 On the 21st of November Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland.
• 1977 In December Björk's first album Björk was released.
• During her teenage years Björk was involved in many bands e.g. Exodus, Tappi Tíkarrass and Kukl.
• 1986 On the 8th of June a boy named Sindri was born to Björk and her husband Thor Eldon.
• 1986 Björk acted in Juniper Tree.
• 1986 In November Sykurmolarnir/The Sugarcubes' first single was released.
• Sugarcubes made three studio albums and one remix album (It's It).
  • 1988 In May Life's Too Good
  • 1989 In October Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!
  • 1992 In February Stick Around For Joy
  • 1992 In October It's It
• 1990 In October Björk's and trio Gudmundar Ingólfssonar's collaboration Gling-Gló was released.
• 1992 In November Sugarcubes split.
• 1993 In July Debut was released and Björk began her solo career.
• 1995 In June Björk's second solo album Post was released.
• 1996 In November Björk's remix album Telegram was released.
• 1997 In September Björk's third solo album Homogenic was released.
• 1998 In July Sugarcubes' compilation album The Great Crossover Potential was released.
• 2000 In May Björk's first big movie Dancer in the Dark premiered at Cannes Film Festival.
• 2000 In September the soundtrack of Dancer in the Dark Selmasongs was released.
• 2001 In August Björk's fourth solo album Vespertine was released.
• 2002 In October a daughter named Ísadóra was born to Björk and Matthew Barney.
• 2002 In November compilations Greatest Hits and Family Tree were released.
• 2003 In August four live albums were released as Live Box.
• 2004 In August Björk's fifth solo album Medúlla was released.

You can mail corrections and comments to me at panu.ranta@iki.fi.

Last updated 2004-09-05.

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