Björk Gu�mundsd�ttir was born on the 21th November 1965 to the parents of Hildur R�na Hauksd�ttir and Gu�mundur Gunnarsson. Soon after, her parents divorced and Björk lived with her mother, although she did spend time at her father's and even her grand parent's house. Since they all listen to different music, Björk was influensed by a number of styles. Her mother has once said that Björk could sing before she had learnt to speak. At the age of five Björk went to a music school, were she learned to play the flute and piano.

When Björk was eleven years old she made her first album, with some musicians that were friends of Björk's mother. Most of the songs were icelandic, but the record also included a couple of covers, like the Beatles' "The Fool on the Hill". Björk even made a song by herself. The album was released 1977 and was very successful, but Björk didn't like the attention, and refused to make any new albums.

In the seventies Punk was spreading through Europe, and Björk was involved in several groups. A few years after she had made her first album she got involved in a group called Exodus, a group mainly into jazz-fusion.
1981 she joined the group Tappi Tikarass(which is t ranslated to: Cork the bitch's ass), that released the two albums "Biti� Fast I Viti�" and "Miranda". At this time Björk gave out a little book called "Um Urnot", that contained some poems and pictures that she had made herself.

Björk and one of her friends had matching tattoo's done on their left arms, this tattoo symbolizes a ancient rune compass dating back over 1000 years from the Icelandic vikings.

Thereafter Björk joined Kukl. Their first album came in 1984, it was called "The Eye". It was followed up the next year with the album "Holidays in Europe". The group toured Europe and played at festivals and concerts.
Kukl was the first real serious band Björk had been a part of until now. Björk also had another tattoo done this time it consisted of a small star shaped object behind her right ear which is a memrobilia of the band. Soon after the band split and in 1986 Björk had her first child, a baby boy named Sindri. The father was Thor Eldon.

At this time Björk and her firends founded a company called "Bad Taste". Their plans were to release books and albums, and even open a club and a radio-station. The first release from Bad Taste was a postcard about Reagan and Gorbachov peace-summit in Reykjav�k, and it was so popular that they could release the first single of the newly formed band, The Sugarcubes.

The band wasn't meant to be serious, but the English music paper Melody Maker praised the single and made it "The Single of the week". Naturally many record companies wanted to sign with The Sugarcubes but they chose a small label called One Little Indian. The first album 'Life's too Good' received very good reviews, and a world tour was started. The second album 'Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week' didn't get nearly as good reviews as the first, and the third album "Stick around for Joy" was doomed by the press even before its release. shortly after the band agreeded it would be best to split so they did. Later a remix album of The Sugarcubes' greatest hits called 'It's It' was released (1992). Another Greatest hits was released in 1998 entitled 'The Great Crossover Postential'.

Björk continued after the split of Sugarcubes with writing songs, which she had started while the band still in full swing.

After the Debut-tour Björk started the work on the album called "Post". At it's release the album received, if possible, even better words from the critics, and again Björk headed on tour. Björk won her second British Music Award in February 1996. The award was handed to Björk by Goldie who was her boyfriend of that time.

Just when Björk had started to record her third solo album in September 1996 a crazed fan from US tried to send an acid-bomb to Björk's London home. But it was disarmed by the police at the post-office. The maker of the bomb video taped his own suicide, and the making of the explosive before he sent it. Björk was naturally very upset about the whole bomb incident but continued to record her next album in Spain.

The tour continued but just a couple of days later Björk showed in Bangkok, where she assaulted a nosy reporter who was attempting to ask her son personal questions. Later she apologized and sent her flowers.

A year after the incident "Homogenic" was released. Homogenic was mostly produced by Björk but Mark Bell of LFO and Eumir Deodato helped her a bit.
The album was darker and braver than Björk's previous albums and the influence of the year 1996 can be clearly heard on Homogenic. The Homogenic tour included every continent in the world except for Australia.