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Björk
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Composer (Music Score), Actor, Songwriter
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November 21, 1965 in Rekjavik, Iceland
Biography:The diminutive Icelandic pop star Björk is best known for her work with The Sugarcubes and her enormously successful solo career. Despite her foray into acting with "Lars von Trier"'s musical tragedy "Dancer in the Dark", that's exactly how she would like it. Born November 21, 1965, in Rekjavik, Iceland, Björk trained as a classical pianist and became a pop star as an 11-year-old when her teachers sent a tape of her singing to Iceland's Radio One. In 1987, after drifting in and out of several bands, forming the Sugarcubes, and birthing her son, Björk took her first cinematic role in "The Juniper Tree", a tale of witchcraft and mysticism based upon a Brothers Grimm story.

The bizarre fantasy hardly took the world by storm; although filmed in 1987, it never had a theatrical release in the United States and arrived on video only in 1996. Björk spent the next 13 years concentrating on her musical... Full Biography

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