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Full Name - Björk Guðmundsdóttir (Gvooth-moonds-daugh-terr) |
Bjork Bio In 1983, Bjork and other stars of the Icelandic New Wave were invited to join together as a sort of supergroup for a special radio program. She and several of the other members among them, Einar Orn and Sigtryggur Baldursson got along rather well, and by the fall of that year, they had formed a new band, Kukl. By the time Tappi Tikarass's second and final album came out late in 1983, Kukl had become Bjork's main creative outlet. Over the next two years, she and the band put out two albums, toured Europe, and began to develop a jazzy, political post-punk sound. But by mid-1986, Kukl was finished. Bjork and her husband, guitarist Thor Eldon, had a son, Sindri, born June 8, 1986, and on the same day a new band was founded, featuring the two happy parents, plus several former Kukl members. |
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By the end of the year, they had finalized the group's name- Sykurmolarnir, or, in English, the Sugarcubes. The success of the Icelandic version of the group's dreamy and remarkable first single, "Birthday," in 1987, led to them signing a record deal with Elektra. In spring of 1988, their debut album, Life's Too Good, was released in America to glowing reviews. Besides "Birthday," the jangly, somewhat puzzling "Motorcrash" also received a good bit of airplay. A second CD, Here Today Tomorrow Next Week, didn't fare as well, however. In 1990, Bjork took some time out to record Gling Glo, an album of traditional Icelandic jazz tunes. Though the Sugarcubes' third album, 1992's Stick Around for Joy, generated the aptly titled single, "Hit," the band broke up later that year. By that time, most of the Sugarcubes' notoriety focused around Bjork anyway; her departure to begin a solo career made sense. The Sugarcubes' swan song, It's It, was released late in 1992; an album of re-mixes, it presaged Bjork's solo work with dance re-mixes. |
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