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ic singer-songwriter

Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and eccentric public per ...

has released 67

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s (including 3 as a featured artist), 7

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s, 5 music video compilations, 2 television performance video albums, 4

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videos and 2 video albums

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s. She also appeared in 4

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s as an actress and has made several television appearances and cameos, in addition to providing music and score to multiple movies. In 1992, Björk left her previous band,

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, and started her solo career with the release of her album '' Debut''. Her first music video taken from the album was "

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, with whom she started a career-spanning collaboration. The video, followed by " Big Time Sensuality", " Army of Me", "

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", the latter two from her second studio album '' Post'' (1995), received heavy airplay on

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channels and popularised her image. Starting with the videos taken from ''

Homogenic ''Homogenic'' is the third studio album by Icelandic recording artist Björk. It was released on 22 September 1997 by One Little Indian Records. Produced by Björk, Mark Bell (British musician), Mark Bell, Guy Sigsworth, Howie B, and Markus Dra ...

'' (1997), as stated in a retrospective review from Philip Sherburne, her videos became "crucial" to build the world of her albums. She also started to experiment with CGI elements, as shown by videos like "

Jóga "Jóga" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress Björk for her third studio album, ''Homogenic'' (1997). An electronica song, "Jóga" fuses these elements with Baroque music, baroque and Classical music, classical styles. ...

" or "

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". "

All Is Full of Love "All Is Full of Love" is a song by Icelandic musician Björk from her third studio album, ''Homogenic'' (1997). The lyrics were inspired by love in spring and Ragnarök of Norse mythology. Björk's original version is a trip hop ballad with Soul ...

", directed by

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, received general acclaim from critics, went on to win two

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s and was included in

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permanent collection. In 1999, the singer was approached by Danish director

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to star in his movie ''

Dancer in the Dark ''Dancer in the Dark'' is a 2000 musical psychological tragedy film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to p ...

'' (2000). It was Björk's second feature film lead appearance, having previously starred in the Icelandic television movie, ''Glerbrot'' (1987), and Nietzchka Keene's '' The Juniper Tree'' (1990). For her performance in ''Dancer in the Dark'', Björk received critical acclaim, was nominated for two

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s and one

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, and won the Best Actress Award at the 2000

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. For her 2001 album '' Vespertine'', Björk wanted to convey a more minimalistic and intimate image in her videos, resulting in videos like " Pagan Poetry" and " Cocoon", which were banned from prime-time MTV airplay. In 2003, Björk started a collaboration with collective LynnFox, which provided several visual that served as backdrops for her Greatest Hits tour and also the video for "

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", which was projected during her 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony performance. In 2005, Björk starred as the female lead actress in

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's '' Drawing Restraint 9'', for which she also composed the soundtrack. Björk's music video for "

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", directed by Encyclopedia Pictura, received attention for being one of the first 3D music video. Björk's 2011 multimedia project ''Biophilia'', included her seventh studio album, a world tour, an app and a series of educational workshops. To document the album's creation and themes, Björk collaborated with

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, and filmed the documentary '' When Björk Met Attenborough'', narrated by Tilda Swinton. The tour's final show at

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was premiered as a concert film during 2014

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. Coinciding with the release of '' Vulnicura'' (2015), Björk was honored by the MoMa with an artist retrospective, for which she was commissioned a music video for her song " Black Lake". Subsequently, the singer started to experiment with

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videos, resulting in work like " Stonemilker", "Notget" and "Quicksand", which was premiered as the first

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virtual reality live stream. All these videos were part of the '' Björk Digital'' exhibition, which premiered at

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in 2016, and were later included in the ''Vulnicura VR'' album, which was firstly released on

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in September 2019. Björk's recent videos continue to be received favorably, with her 2017 video for " The Gate" being named the best music video of 2017 by ''

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