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Australia (
/əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups. After discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.
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The term Baltic states (also Baltics, Baltic nations or Baltic countries) refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (from north to south); Finland also fell within the scope of the term from the 1920s to 1939.Estonia is only considered Baltic geographically, not linguistically or culturally, as Estonians and Finns are descendants of the Baltic Finns.
The term in the indigenous languages of the Baltic states is:
The term "Baltic" stems from the name of the Baltic Sea – a hydronym dating back to the 11th century (Adam of Bremen mentioned Latin: Mare Balticum) and earlier.
The Latvian and Lithuanian term Baltija most likely originates from the Indo-European root *bhel meaning white, fair. In modern Baltic languages, namely, Lithuanian language, baltas literally means white, and in Latvian language balts means white also.
Beginning in the Middle Ages and through the present day, the Baltic Sea appears on the maps subscribed in Germanic languages as German: Ostsee, Danish: Østersøen, Dutch: Oostzee, Swedish: Östersjön, etc. In English "Ost" is "East", and in fact, the Baltic Sea mostly lies to the east for Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Clearly, part of the Baltic Sea lies to the east of Germany and Sweden, and due north of parts of Germany.
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Banda Aceh
Banda Aceh is the provincial capital and largest city in the province of Aceh, Indonesia, located on the island of Sumatra, with an elevation of 35 meters. The city regency covers an area of 64 square kilometres and according to the 2000 census had a population of 219,070 people. Banda Aceh is located at the northwestern tip of Indonesia at the mouth of the River Krueng Aceh.
The city was originally named Kutaraja, and determined as the provincial capital in 1956. Kuta Raja means "City of the King", in reference to the founding of the Aceh Sultanate from Champa origins. Later its name was changed to Bandar Aceh Darussalam or popularly known as Bandar Aceh, with the first part of the name coming from the Persian bandar (بندر) meaning "port" or "haven". Today the city is spelled Banda Aceh with the lost of "r" in "Bandar". The city is also dubbed to as the "port to Mecca", and Aceh is also referred to as the "porch of Mecca" (Indonesian: Serambi Mekkah), since in the past during the days when the hajj pilgrims travelled by sea, the hajj pilgrim from all over Indonesian archipelago traditionally always make a stop over in the city before continuing their journey to Mecca. It is also known that earliest Southeast Asian Islamic sultanates — such as Samudra Pasai — were first established in Aceh, which means Islam first arrived in Aceh before spreading throughout Southeast Asia.
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Barcelona
Barcelona (English /bɑrsɨˈloʊnə/, Catalan: [bərsəˈɫonə], Spanish: [barθeˈlona]) is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of 101.4 km2 (39 sq mi). The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of between 4,200,000 and 4,500,000 within an area of 803 km2 (310 sq mi), being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, the Ruhr, Madrid and Milan. About five million people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also Europe's largest metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the main component of an administrative area of Greater Barcelona, with a population of 3,218,071 in an area of 636 km² (density 5,060 hab/km²). It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge (512 m/1,680 ft).
Founded as a Roman city, Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona. After merging with the Kingdom of Aragon, Barcelona became one of the most important cities of the Crown of Aragon. Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination. Particularly renowned are the architectural works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech i Montaner, which have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean is located in Barcelona. The city is known for hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as world-class conferences and expositions, including the 1888 Exposición Universal de Barcelona, the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition (Expo 1929), the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures, and the 2004 World Urban Forum.
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Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital (Spanish pronunciation: [boɣoˈta] (
listen)), from 1991 to 2000 called Santafé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district and no longer belongs administratively to that department. Bogotá is the most populous city in the country, with 7.363.782 inhabitants as of 2010. Bogotá and its metropolitan area, which includes municipalities such as Chía, Cota, Soacha, Cajicá and La Calera, had a population of 7,881,156 in 2005.
In terms of land area, Bogotá is the largest city in Colombia, and one of the biggest of Latin America. It figures amongst the thirty largest cities of the world and it is the third-highest capital city in South America (after La Paz and Quito) at 2,625 metres (8,612 ft) above sea level. With its many universities and libraries, Bogotá has become known as "The Athens of South America". Bogotá owns the largest moorland of the world, which is located in the Sumapaz Locality. The city ranked 54th in the 2010 Global Cities Index and is listed as global city of the Beta+ kind by the GaWC.
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( /ˈbweɪnəs ˈɛəriːz/ or /ˈaɪrɪs/,Spanish: [ˈbwenos ˈaiɾes]) is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after Greater Sao Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent. Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the third-largest conurbation in Latin America, with a population of around thirteen million.
The city of Buenos Aires is not a part of Buenos Aires Province, nor is it the Province's capital, but an autonomous district. In 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalised and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores (both are currently neighborhoods of the city). The 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (Autonomous City of Buenos Aires). Its citizens first elected a Chief of Government (i.e. Mayor) in 1996; before, the Mayor was directly appointed by the President of the Republic.
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Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival (French: Le Festival International du Film de Cannes or just Festival de Cannes), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is the world's most prestigious and publicized film festival. The invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès.
The 2012 Cannes Film Festival took place from May 16 to May 27, 2012. The President of the Jury was the Italian film director Nanni Moretti.
The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in the late 1930s when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of Philippe Erlanger and with the support of the British and Americans,[clarification needed] set up an international cinematographic festival. In 1947, the festival was held as the "Festival du film de Cannes", where films from sixteen countries were presented. Moreover, the principle of equality was introduced, so that the jury was to be made up only of one representative per country. Also, this year the festival was held at the made-for-the-occasion Palais des Festivals, although the roof was unfinished and blew off during a storm. The festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 on account of budgetary problems. In 1951, owing to better relations between France and Italy, the Cannes Festival was moved to Spring, while the Mostra remained in Autumn.
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Curitiba
Curitiba (Tupi: "Pine Nut Land", Portuguese pronunciation: [kuɾiˈtibɐ] or [kuɾiˈtʃibɐ]) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Paraná. The city's population numbers approximately 1.75 million people, making it the 8th most populous in the country, and the largest in the Brazil's South Region. Its metropolitan area, called Curitiba Metropolitan Area (Região Metropolitana de Curitiba, in Portuguese), comprises 26 municipalities with a total population of over 3.2 million (IBGE estimate in 2010), the seventh most populous in the country.
Curitiba is an important cultural, political and economic centre in the country and in Latin America. The city sits on a plateau at 932 metres (3,058 ft) above sea level. It is located 105 kilometres (65 mi) west of the sea port of Paranaguá and is served by the Afonso Pena International and Bacacheri airports. The city hosts the Federal University of Paraná, established in 1912, one year before electric streetcars were first deployed.
Curitiba's rapid expansion was based on the cattle trade, the city being located half-way between the cattle breeding country to the south and the markets to the north. Waves of European immigrants started arriving after 1850, mainly Germans, Italians, Poles and Ukrainians, contributing to the economic and cultural development of the city. Nowadays, only smaller numbers of foreign immigrants arrive, mainly from Middle Eastern and others Latin American countries, but there is a substantial inward flow of Brazilians from other states of the country (approximately half the population of Curitiba was not born in the city).
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Denmark
The Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Kongeriget Danmark, pronounced [ˈkɔŋəʁiːəð ˈdanmɑɡ̊] ( listen)) is a constitutional monarchy and sovereign state consisting the country of Denmark in northern Europe and two autonomous constituent countries, the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic and Greenland in North America. The kingdom is a unitary state with some power being devolved from Denmark proper to Greenland and the Faroe Islands; this polity is referred to as the Danish Realm. Denmark proper is the hegemonial area, where judicial, executive, and legislative power resides. The Faroe Islands are defined to be a community of people within the kingdom, and the Greenlandic people are defined as a separate people with the right to self-determination.
Denmark is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, located southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. The country consists of a large peninsula, Jutland and many islands, most notably Zealand, Funen, Lolland, Falster and Bornholm, as well as hundreds of minor islands often referred to as the Danish Archipelago.
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Faroe Islands
Coordinates: 62°00′N 06°47′W / 62°N 6.783°W / 62; -6.783
The Faroe Islands (Faroese: Føroyar pronounced [ˈfœɹjaɹ], Danish: Færøerne Danish pronunciation: [ˈfæɐ̯øːˀɐnə]) are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland. The islands form a self-governing country under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark. The total area is approximately 1,400 km² (540 sq mi) with a 2010 population of almost 50,000 people.
The Faroe Islands has been a self-governing dependency of Denmark since 1948. Over the years, the Faroese have taken control of most domestic matters. Areas that remain the responsibility of Denmark include military defence, police, justice, currency and foreign affairs. The Faroe Islands also has representatives in the Nordic Council as members of the Danish delegation.
The Faroe Islands were associated with and taxed by Denmark and Norway up to 1814, when Norway fell under the rule of Sweden. Scandinavia was in political turmoil following the Sixth Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars, when the Treaty of Kiel granted Denmark control over the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland in 1814. The Danish trade monopoly ended in 1856.
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Finland
Coordinates: 65°N 27°E / 65°N 027°E / 65; 027
Finland
i/ˈfɪnlənd/ ( Finnish: Suomi; Swedish: Finland (help·info)), officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.
Around 5.4 million people reside in Finland, with the majority concentrated in the southern region. It is the eighth largest country in Europe in terms of area and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union. Finland is a parliamentary republic with a central government based in Helsinki and local governments in 336 municipalities, and an autonomous region of the Åland Islands. About one million residents live in the Greater Helsinki area, which consists of Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen and Vantaa, and a third of the country's GDP is produced there. Other larger cities include Tampere, Turku, Oulu, Jyväskylä, Lahti and Kuopio.
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Greece
Greecei/ˈɡriːs/ (Greek: Ελλάδα, Ellada, IPA: [eˈlaða] ( listen) historically in Katharevousa and Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, Hellas, IPA: [eˈlas] and [helːás] respectively), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Elliniki Dimokratia, IPA: [eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia]), is a country in Southern Europe, politically considered part of Western Europe.Athens is the capital and the largest city in the country (its urban area also including Piraeus). The population of the country is around 11 million.
Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at 2,917 m (9,570 ft).
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallisut: Kalaallit Nunaat, "Land of the Kalaallit";Danish: Grønland) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and later Denmark) for more than a millennium. Greenland is, by area, the world's largest island. With a population of 56,615 (January 2011 estimate) it is the least densely populated dependency or country in the world.
Greenland has been inhabited, though not continuously, by Arctic peoples via Canada for 4500–5000 years. In the 10th century, Norsemen settled on the uninhabited southern part of Greenland. In the 13th century, the Inuit arrived, and in the late 15th century the Norse colonies were abandoned. In the early 18th century, contact between Scandinavia and Greenland was re-established and Denmark established rule over Greenland.
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Guadalajara
Guadalajara (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaðalaˈxaɾa]) is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality. The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area includes seven adjacent municipalities with a reported population of 4,328,584 in 2009, making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Mexico, behind Mexico City. The municipality is the second most densely populated area in Mexico; the first being Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl in State of Mexico.
The city's economy is based on industry, especially information technology with a large number of international firms having manufacturing facilities in the Guadalajara Metro Area. Other, more traditional industries, such as shoes, textiles and food processing are also important contributing factors. Guadalajara is the cultural center of Mexico, considered by most to be the home of Mariachi music and host to a number of large-scale cultural events such as the International Film Festival of Guadalajara and the Guadalajara International Book Fair and a number of globally renowned cultural events which draw international crowds. It is also home to the Chivas football/soccer team, one of the two most popular in Mexico. This city was named American Capital of Culture in 2005. Guadalajara hosted the 2011 Pan American Games and is currently bidding to host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.
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Harpa (concert hall)
Harpa is a concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavík, Iceland. The opening concert was held on May 4, 2011.
Harpa was designed by the Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects in co-operation with Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. The structure consists of a steel framework clad with irregularly-shaped glass panels of different colours. The building was originally part of a redevelopment of the Austurhöfn area dubbed World Trade Center Reykjavík, which was partially abandoned when the financial crisis took hold. The development was intended to include a 400-room hotel, luxury apartments, retail units, restaurants, a car park and the new headquarters of Icelandic bank Landsbanki.
The completion of the structure was uncertain until the government decided in 2008 to fully fund the rest of the construction costs for the half-built concert hall. The building was given its name on the Day of Icelandic Music on 11 December 2009, prior to which it was called The Reykjavík Concert Hall and Conference Centre (Icelandic: Tónlistar- og ráðstefnuhúsið í Reykjavík). The building is the first purpose-built concert hall in Reykjavík. It houses the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and The Icelandic Opera.
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Iceland
Icelandi/ˈaɪslənd/ (Icelandic: Ísland, IPA: [ˈislant]) is a Nordic European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The country has a population of about 320,000 and a total area of 103,000 km2 (40,000 sq mi). The capital and largest city is Reykjavík, with the surrounding areas in the southwestern region of the country being home to two-thirds of the country's population. Iceland is volcanically and geologically active. The interior mainly consists of a plateau characterised by sand fields, mountains and glaciers, while many glacial rivers flow to the sea through the lowlands. Iceland is warmed by the Gulf Stream and has a temperate climate despite a high latitude just outside the Arctic Circle.
According to Landnámabók, the settlement of Iceland began in AD 874 when the chieftain Ingólfur Arnarson became the first permanent Norse settler on the island. Others had visited the island earlier and stayed over winter. Over the following centuries, Norsemen settled Iceland, bringing with them thralls (slaves) of Gaelic origin. From 1262 to 1918 Iceland was part of the Norwegian and later the Danish monarchies. Until the 20th century, the Icelandic population relied largely on fisheries and agriculture, and the country was one of the poorest and least developed in the world. Industrialisation of the fisheries and aid from the Marshall Plan brought prosperity in the years after World War II, and by the 1990s it was one of the world's wealthiest countries. In 1994, Iceland became party to the European Economic Area, which made it possible for the economy to diversify into economic and financial services.
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Japan
Japan
i/dʒəˈpæn/ (Japanese: 日本 Nihon or Nippon; formally 日本国 
Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, literally the State of Japan) is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
Archaeological research indicates that people lived in Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other nations followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since adopting its revised constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament called the Diet.
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Kosovo
Kosovo ( /ˈkɒsəvoʊˌ ˈkoʊsəvoʊ/; Albanian: Kosovë, Kosova; Serbian: Косово or Косово и Метохија or Космет, Kosovo or Kosovo i Metohija or Kosmet) is a region in southeastern Europe. In antiquity, it was known as the independent kingdom, and later Roman province, of Dardania. Part of the medieval Serbia, it was then conquered by the Ottoman Empire, later incorporated into Serbia after the First Balkan War and before the constitution of Yugoslavia, later still it became the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian: Autonomna Pokrajina Kosovo i Metohija) within Serbia (Serbia then being one of the constituent republics of Yugoslavia). Long-term severe ethnic tensions between Kosovo's Albanian and Serb populations have left Kosovo ethnically divided, resulting in inter-ethnic violence, including the Kosovo War of 1999. Following the Kosovo War, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) relinquished governance of this territory, whose governance was taken over by the United Nations, Kosovo remained legally the sovereign territory of the FRY after the transfer of authority. The partially recognised Republic of Kosovo (Albanian: Republika e Kosovës; Serbian: Република Косово, Republika Kosovo), a self-declared independent state, has de facto control over most of the territory, while North Kosovo, the largest Kosovo Serb enclave, is under the control of institutions of the Republic of Serbia.Serbia does not recognise the unilateral secession of Kosovo and considers it a UN-governed entity within its sovereign territory.
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Kárahnjúkar
Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant is a hydroelectric power plant in eastern Iceland designed to produce 4,600 GWh annually for Alcoa's Fjardaál aluminum smelter 75 kilometres (47 mi) to the east in Reyðarfjörður. The project, named after nearby Mount Kárahnjúkur, involves damming the Jökulsá á Dal River and the Jökulsá í Fljótsdal River with five dams, creating three reservoirs. Water from the reservoirs is then diverted through 73 kilometres (45 mi) of underground water tunnels and down a 420-metre (1,380 ft) vertical penstock towards a single underground power station. The smelter became fully operational in 2008 and the hydro-power project was completed in 2009.
The Kárahnjúkastífla Dam is the centerpiece of the five dams and the largest of its type in Europe, standing 193 metres (633 ft) tall with a length of 730 metres (2,400 ft) and comprising 8.5 million cubic metres (300×10^6 cu ft) of material.
The project has been criticised for its environmental impact and its use of foreign workers.
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Leeds
Coordinates: 53°47′59″N 1°32′57″W / 53.79972°N 1.54917°W / 53.79972; -1.54917 Leeds (i/ˈliːdz/) is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 (2011 est.), making it the 24th-most populous city in the European Union
Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial heart of the West Yorkshire Urban Area, which at the 2001 census had a population of 1.5 million, and the Leeds-Bradford Metropolitan Area, of which Leeds is the integral part, had a population of around 2.3 million, making it the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom. In addition, the Leeds city region, an economic area with Leeds at its core, had a population of 2.9 million. Leeds is the UK's largest centre for business, legal, and financial services outside London, and its office market is the best in Europe for value. Leeds is considered a Gamma World City, alongside cities such as Phoenix, St. Petersburg and Valencia.
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Lima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan Area. With a population approaching 9 million, Lima is the fifth largest city in Latin America, behind Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. Lima is home to one of the largest financial hubs in Latin America. It has been defined as a beta world city by GaWC international ranking.
Lima was founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535, as la Ciudad de los Reyes, or "the City of Kings". It became the capital and most important city in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. Following the Peruvian War of Independence, it became the capital of the Republic of Peru. Today, around one-third of the Peruvian population lives in the metropolitan area.
Lima is home to one of the oldest higher learning institutions in the New World. The National University of San Marcos, founded on May 12, 1551 during Spanish colonial regime, is the oldest continuously functioning university in the Americas.
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London
Londoni/ˈlʌndən/ is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's leading financial centre alongside New York City and has the fifth-largest city GDP in the world (and the largest in Europe). London has been described as a world cultural capital. It was the world's most visited city during 2011 and London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games three times.
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Manchester
Coordinates: 53°28′N 2°14′W / 53.467°N 2.233°W / 53.467; -2.233
Manchesteri/ˈmæntʃɛstər/ is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England with an estimated population of 498,800 in 2010. Manchester lies within one of the United Kingdom's largest urban areas; the Greater Manchester Urban Area which has a population of 2.2 million. The demonym of Manchester is Mancunian and the local authority is Manchester City Council.
Manchester is situated in the south-central part of North West England, fringed by the Cheshire Plain to the south and the Pennines to the north and east. The recorded history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort of Mamucium, which was established in c. 79 AD on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Historically, most of the city was a part of Lancashire, although areas south of the River Mersey were in Cheshire. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township, but it began to expand "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century. Manchester's unplanned urbanisation was brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution, and resulted in it becoming the world's first industrialised city. An early 19th-century factory building boom transformed Manchester from a township into a major mill town and borough that was granted city status in 1853. In 1894 the Manchester Ship Canal was built, creating the Port of Manchester.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses ‒ that of the North and South Islands ‒ as well as numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans.
During its long isolation, New Zealand developed a distinctive biodiversity of both animal and plant life. Most notable are the large number of unique bird species, many of which became extinct after the arrival of humans and introduced mammals. With a mild maritime climate, the land was mostly covered in forest. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions caused by the Pacific and Indo-Australian Plates clashing beneath the earth's surface.
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Opera
Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble.
Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. It started in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's lost Dafne, produced in Florence around 1597) and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Schütz in Germany, Lully in France, and Purcell in England all helped to establish their national traditions in the 17th century. In the 18th century, Italian opera continued to dominate most of Europe, except France, attracting foreign composers such as Handel. Opera seria was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his "reform" operas in the 1760s. Today the most renowned figure of late 18th century opera is Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, as well as The Magic Flute, a landmark in the German tradition.
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Reykjavík
Reykjavík (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈreiːcaˌviːk] (
listen)) is the capital and largest city in Iceland.
Its latitude, at 64°08' N, makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay. With a population of around 120,000 (and over 200,000 in the Greater Reykjavík Area), it is the heart of Iceland's economic and governmental activity.
Reykjavík is believed to be the location of the first permanent settlement in Iceland, which Ingólfur Arnarson is said to have established around 870 C.E. Until the 18th century, there was no urban development in the city location. The city was founded in 1786 as an official trading town and grew steadily over the next decades, as it transformed into a regional and later national centre of commerce, population, and governmental activities.
The first permanent settlement in Iceland by Norsemen is believed to have been established in Reykjavík by Ingólfur Arnarson around AD 870; this is described in Landnámabók, or the Book of Settlement. Ingólfur Arnarson is said to have decided the location of his settlement using a traditional Viking method; by casting his high seat pillars (Öndvegissúlur) into the ocean when he saw the coastline, then settled where the pillars came to shore. Steam from hot springs in the region is said to have inspired Reykjavík's name, which loosely translates to Smoke Cove (the city is often referred to as the Bay of Smokes or Bay of Smoke) The original name was Reykjarvík with an additional "r" that vanished around 1300.[citation needed]
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Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( /ˈriːoʊ deɪ ʒəˈnɛəroʊ/ or /ˈriːoʊ deɪ dʒəˈnɛəroʊ/; Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u dʒi ʒaˈnejɾu],River of January), commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th largest in the Americas, and 26th in the world.
The city was the capital of Brazil for nearly two centuries, from 1763 to 1815 during the Portuguese colonial era, 1815 to 1821 as the capital of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves, and 1822 to 1960 as an independent nation. Rio is nicknamed the Cidade Maravilhosa or "Marvelous City."
Rio de Janeiro represents the second largest GDP in the country (and 30th largest in the world in 2008), estimated at about R$ 343 billion (IBGE/2008) (nearly US$ 201 billion), and is the headquarters of two major Brazilian companies – Petrobras and Vale, and major oil companies and telephony in Brazil, besides the largest conglomerate of media and communications companies in Latin America, the Globo Organizations. The home of many universities and institutes, it is the second largest center of research and development in Brazil, accounting for 17% of national scientific production – according to 2005 data.
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Santiago de Chile
Santiago (Spanish: Santiago de Chile (help·info)), also Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation (Greater Santiago). It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of 520 m (1,706.04 ft) above mean sea level. Although Santiago is the capital, the National Congress of Chile meets in the coastal town of Valparaíso, 120 km to the west.
Chile's steady economic growth has transformed Santiago into Latin America's most modern metropolitan area, with extensive suburban development, dozens of shopping centers, and impressive high-rise architecture. It has a very modern transport infrastructure, including the steadily growing underground Santiago Metro, an effort at modernizing public bus transport and a free flow toll-based ring road and inner city highway system, part of which is tunneled underneath a large section of the city's main river Mapocho connecting the Eastern and Western end of the city in a 25-minute drive. Santiago is the regional headquarters to many multinationals and a financial center.
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Serbia
Serbiai/ˈsɜrbiə/, officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Република Србија / Republika Srbija, pronounced [rɛpǔblika sř̩bija]), is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans. Serbia borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; the Republic of Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west; additionally, it borders Albania through Kosovo, whose status as part of Serbia is disputed. Serbia covers an area of 88,361 km2 and has a population of just over 7.1 million, while the capital and largest city is Belgrade.
The arrival of the Serbs to the Balkans in the 7th century, established several states, eventually forming the Serbian Empire in the 14th century. By the 16th century, Serbia was conquered and occupied by the Ottoman Empire, at times interrupted by the Habsburgs. In the early 19th century the Serbian revolution re-established the country as the region's first constitutional monarchy, which subsequently expanded its territory and pioneered the abolition of feudalism in the Balkans. The former Habsburg crownland of Vojvodina united with Serbia in 1918. Following World War I, Serbia formed Yugoslavia with other South Slavic peoples which existed in several forms up until 2006, when the National Assembly of Serbia declared independence and the legal succession to the former State Union. In February 2008 the parliament of UNMIK-governed Kosovo, Serbia's southern province, declared independence, with mixed responses from international governments.
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Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the largest city proper by population in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities of the PRC, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010. It is a global city, with influence in commerce, culture, finance, media, fashion, technology, and transport. It is a major financial center and the busiest container port in the world.
Located in the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China, Shanghai sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. The municipality borders Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces to the west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.
Once a fishing and textiles town, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to European recognition of its favorable port location and economic potential. The city was one of several opened to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the first opium war and the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking which allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement. The city then flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became the undisputed financial hub of the Asia Pacific in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, the city's international influence declined. In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city.
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Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, opening in 1973 after a long gestation that had begun with his competition-winning design in 1957.
Utzon received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2003. The Pritzker Prize citation stated:
The Sydney Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. It is one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.[citation needed]
The Sydney Opera House is on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It sits at the northeastern tip of the Sydney central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove) and inland by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Contrary to its name, the building houses multiple performance venues. The Sydney Opera House is among the busiest performing arts centres in the world, hosting over 1,500 performances each year attended by some 1.2 million people. It provides a venue for many performing-arts companies, including the four key resident companies Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and presents a wide range of productions on its own account. It is also one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia, with more than seven million people visiting the site each year, 300,000 of whom take a guided tour.
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São Paulo
São Paulo (/ˌsaʊ ˈpaʊloʊ/; Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w ˈpawlu] ( listen); Saint Paul;), popularly known as Sampa, is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and Americas, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among the five largest metropolitan areas on the planet. São Paulo is the capital of the state of São Paulo, which is the most populous Brazilian state, and exerts strong regional influence in commerce and finance as well as arts and entertainment. São Paulo maintains strong international influence and is considered an Alpha- World City. The name of the city honors Saint Paul.
The metropolis has significant cultural, economic and political influence both nationally and internationally. It houses several important monuments, parks and museums such as the Latin American Memorial, the Museum of the Portuguese Language, São Paulo Museum of Art and the Ibirapuera Park. The Paulista Avenue is the most important financial center of São Paulo. The city holds many high profile events, like the São Paulo Art Biennial, the Brazil Grand Prix Formula 1 Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Fashion Week, ATP Brasil Open, and the São Paulo Indy 300.
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Turku
Turku (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈturku] ( listen); Swedish: Åbo [ˈoːbu] ( listen)) is a city on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper. It is believed to have been first settled around the end of the 13th century, making it the oldest city in Finland. It quickly became the most important city in Finland, a status it retained for hundreds of years. After Finland became part of the Russian Empire (1809), and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland was moved to Helsinki (1812), Turku continued to be the most populous city in Finland, until the end of the 1840s. Today it remains a regional capital and an important business and cultural center.
Because of its long history it has been the site of many important events, and has extensively influenced Finnish history. Along with Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Turku was designated the European Capital of Culture for 2011. In 1996 it was declared the official Christmas City of Finland.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Xinhua
The Xinhua News Agency (simplified Chinese: 新华通讯社; traditional Chinese: 新華通訊社; pinyin: Xīnhuá tōngxùnshè, IPA: [ɕínxwǎ]; /ˈʃiːnhwɑː/; literally "New China News Agency") is the official press agency of the People's Republic of China and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in China. It is the largest news agency in China, ahead of the China News Service. Xinhua is subordinate to the State Council and reports to the Communist Party of China's Publicity and Public Information Departments. Xinhua's headquarters complex, the "pencil building", is at No. 57 Xuanwumenxi Street, Beijing. Its website Xinhua.org or Xinhuanet.com is headquartered on the twentieth floor of the Dacheng Plaza (大成大厦 Dàchéng Dàshà) in Xicheng District, Beijing.
Xinhua employs more than 10,000 people, operates 107 foreign bureaus worldwide, and maintains 31 bureaus in China—one for each province, plus a military bureau. As most of the newspapers in China cannot afford to station correspondents abroad, or even in every Chinese province, they rely on Xinhua feeds to fill their pages. People's Daily, for example, uses Xinhua material for approximately 25 percent of its stories. Xinhua is a publisher as well as a news agency—it owns more than 20 newspapers and a dozen magazines, and it prints in eight languages: Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic and Japanese.
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Alexander McQueen
Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring, his tendency to juxtapose strength with fragility in his collections, as well as the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows.[opinion] He is also known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003.
Born on 17 March 1969 in Lewisham, London, to Scottishtaxi driver Ronald and social science teacher Joyce, McQueen was the youngest of six children. He grew up in a council flat in a tower block in Stratford. He attended Carpenters Road Primary School, started making dresses for his three sisters at a young age, and announced his intention to become a fashion designer.
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Andri Snaer Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer. He has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and CD's. His work has been published or performed in more than 16 countries. His most recent work is the book Dreamland, a highly praised work of non-fiction dealing with many issues in modern Iceland, mostly environmentalism but also the US Army being in the country, inconsistencies in policies regarding towns outside of Reykjavík. His latest novel, LoveStar was chosen “Novel of the year” by Icelandic booksellers 2002, it received the DV Literary Award and a nomination to the Icelandic Literary Prize. His children's book, The Story of the Blue Planet, was the first children's book to receive the Icelandic Literary Prize and has been published in 12 countries. The Story of the Blue Planet received the Janusz Korczak Honorary Award 2000 and the West Nordic Children's Book Prize 2002. The play from the story is on the main stage of LKTYP in Toronto in 2005. Andri has collaborated with various artists, mostly with a band called múm. Andri is vice-president of The Icelandic Writers Union, board member of The Culture House in Reykjavik and has been active in the fight against the destruction of the Icelandic Highlands. Andri has recently published the book Dreamland - Self-help for a frightened nation. It is a book that criticises the fast destruction of the Icelandic nature by the damming of rivers for the gain of aluminium companies.
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Antonio Carlos Jobim
Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927 – December 8, 1994), also known as Tom Jobim (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtõ ʒoˈbĩ]), was a Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist. He was a primary force behind the creation of the bossa nova style, and his songs have been performed by many singers and instrumentalists within Brazil and internationally.
Widely known as the composer of "The Girl from Ipanema" (Garota de Ipanema), one of the most recorded songs of all time, Jobim has left a large number of songs that are today included in the standard Jazz and Pop repertoires.
Antonio Carlos Jobim was born in the middle-class district of Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro. His father Jorge de Oliveira Jobim (São Gabriel, Rio Grande do Sul, April 23, 1889 - July 19, 1935) was a writer, diplomat, professor and journalist. He came from a prominent family, being the great-grand nephew of José Martins da Cruz Jobim,senator, privy councillor and physician of Emperor Dom Pedro II. While studying medicine in Europe, José Martins added Jobim to his last name, paying homage to the village where his family came from in Portugal, the parish of Santa Cruz de Jovim, Porto.
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Antony Hegarty
Antony Hegarty (born 1971) (often referred to as Antony) is an English singer, composer, and visual artist, best known as the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons.
Antony Hegarty was born in ChichesterWest Sussex, UK in 1971. In 1977, his family moved to Amsterdam for a year, and then, in 1981, they moved to the San Francisco Bay Area of California where he grew up. As a teenager, he was influenced by British synth pop – in particular singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Boy George, and was also strongly influenced by underground stars Diamanda Galás, Rozz Williams, Divine and Klaus Nomi and American singers including Nina Simone, Otis Redding, and Donny Hathaway. In 1990, Antony moved to Manhattan to attend the Experimental Theatre Wing of New York University, and founded the performance collective Blacklips with creative partner Johanna Constantine. He spent the next several years singing in after-hours bars and clubs using pre-recorded cassettes as self-accompaniment as well as writing and directing late night theatre productions.
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B.B. King
Riley B. King (born September 16, 1925), known by the stage name B.B. King, is an American songwriter, vocalist, and famed blues guitarist.
Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at No. 6 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. and No. 17 in in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time. According to Edward M. Komara, King "introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that would influence virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed." King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
King was born in a small cabin on a cotton plantation outside of Berclair, Mississippi, to Albert King and Nora Ella Farr on September 16, 1925.
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Björk
Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( /ˈbjɜrk/; [ˈpjœr̥k ˈkvʏðmʏntsˌtoʊhtɪr] ( listen); born 21 November 1965), known as Björk, is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her musical style is eclectic and she has achieved recognition in rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical, and folk.
Björk's 1990s singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me" and "Hyperballad" charted in the UK Top 10.[citation needed] Her record label, One Little Indian, reported that by 2003 she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. She has acquired a high level of critical acclaim. She has won four BRIT Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, one MOJO Award, three UK Music Video Awards, and, in 2010, the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, in recognition for her "deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice".
Björk has also been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards, one Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Dancer in the Dark. She was ranked thirty-sixth in VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll", eighth in MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music", and sixtieth in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".
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Blanca Portillo
Blanca Portillo (born 15 June 1963) is a Spanish actress.
Portillo started as an actress in several small theater productions before graduating in drama from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico.
One of her most important performances afterwards was her role of Carol in Oleanna by David Mamet, directed by Joaquín Kremel in 1994.
She made her film debut in Entre rojas (1995). In 1996, Luis San Narciso cast her for the Telecinco TV series 7 vidas, where she played the role of Carlota. The series lasted for ten years. Portillo was nominated for the Goya Awards and Unión de Actores Awards for her role in El color de las nubes in 1997.
She also participated in the Castilian dubbing of Finding Nemo. In spite of her success in TV and movies, she has never left theater and she has taken part in several plays both as an actress and as a director.
In 2003, she joined the Spanish Protests against the Iraq War (No a la guerra) movement.
In 2004, she left 7 vidas to undertake the Argentine theatrical project La hija del aire (Air's Daughter) based in a book by Calderón de la Barca. She combined this play with the film Elsa y Fred (2005).
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan ( /ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie,Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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Bragi Ólafsson
Bragi Ólafsson (born in Reykjavík, Iceland on 11 August 1962) is a musician and a writer.
Internationally he is best known for his work as a bassist in The Sugarcubes, the avant-garde pop band from Iceland that brought fame to Björk, who went on to solo success with her unique brand of dance-pop.
The Sugarcubes, who favored strange, offbeat melodies, came together in 1986, but the Sugarcubes' members had played together in different combinations in various Icelandic groups before. Bragi and Einar Örn Benediktsson (trumpet / vocals) had released records on Einar's own label, Gramm. In 1986 Bragi also launched his writing career, publishing his first book, a poetry volume called Dragsúgur (Draught).
In 1992 The Sugarcubes disbanded as Björk began her solo career. Bragi, meanwhile, has continued to work on Bad Taste Ltd., the company formed by the Sugarcubes to publish poetry and sign other bands but is no longer a practising musician.
He enjoys considerable success as a novelist, playwright and poet in Iceland, having twice been nominated to the Icelandic Literature Prize.
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Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm (German: Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm), Jakob Grimm (January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together collected folklore. They are among the most well-known storytellers of European folk tales, and their work popularized such stories as "Cinderella", "The Frog Prince" (Der Froschkönig), "Hansel and Gretel" (Hänsel und Gretel), "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" (Rumpelstilzchen), and "Snow White" (Schneewittchen). Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in 1812.
The brothers spent their formative years first in the German town of Hanau and then in Steinau. Their father's death in 1796, about a decade into their lives, caused great poverty for the family and affected the brothers for many years. They attended the University of Marburg where historian and jurist Friedrich von Savigny spurred their interest in philology and Germanic studies—a field in which they are now considered pioneers—and at the same time developed a curiosity for folklore, which grew into a life-long dedication to collecting German folk tales.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
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Carmen Maura
Carmen García Maura (born September 15, 1945) is a Spanish actress. In a career that has spanned six decades, Maura is best known for her collaborations with noted Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar.
Maura was born in Madrid. Daughter of Salvador Garcia Santa-Cruz and Carmen Maura Arenzana. Her great-grandfather was the Count of Fuente Nueva de Arenzana, who lived in the Palace of Arenzana in Madrid, currently the embassy of France. Her other great grand father from her mother´s side was the artist Bartolome Maura Montaner brother of Antonio Maura, a former prime minister of Spain on five occasions and a noted orator.
Maura studied philosophy and literature at the École de Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 1964 to 1970, she was married to a lawyer, Francisco Forteza, with whom she has two children, Carmen and Pablo.
Maura began her career as a cabaret singer. Maura's film career was launched in 1970 with an appearance in the film The Man in Hiding. This was followed by a major role in the 1977 film Tigres de papel. Although Maura has played dramatic roles, she is often noted for her comedic roles in films like Sal gorda (1984), Sé infiel y no mires con quién (1985) or Tata mía (1986).
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Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg (born 21 July 1971) is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released three albums as an adult (5:55, IRM and Stage Whisper) to commercial and critical success. Gainsbourg has also appeared in many films, including several directed by Lars von Trier, and has received both a César Award and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award. She is the daughter of British actress Jane Birkin and French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.
Gainsbourg was born in London to Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg and was raised in Paris. Her maternal grandmother was actress Judy Campbell and her uncle is the screenwriter Andrew Birkin, who directed her in The Cement Garden. She attended École Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel in Paris and Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil in Switzerland.
Gainsbourg's longtime partner is French-Israeli actor/director Yvan Attal, with whom she has three children: a son, Ben (born on 12 June 1997) and daughters Alice (born on 8 November 2002) and Joe (born on 16 July 2011).
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Chris Cunningham
Chris Cunningham is a British music video film director and video artist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk.
The video collection The Work of Director Chris Cunningham was released in November 2004 as part of the Directors Label set. This DVD includes selected highlights from 1995–2000.
After seeing Cunningham's work on the 1994 film version of Judge Dredd, Stanley Kubrick head-hunted Cunningham to design and supervise animatronic tests of the central robot child character in his version of the film A.I. Cunningham worked for over a year on the film A.I., before leaving to pursue a career as a director.
Earlier work in film included model making, prosthetic make-up and concept illustrations for Hardware and Dust Devil with director Richard Stanley, as well as Nightbreed. In 1990–1992 he contributed the occasional cover painting and strip for Judge Dredd Megazine, working under the pseudonym Chris Halls, the surname of his stepfather.
Cunningham has had close ties to Warp Records since his first production for Autechre. Videos for Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" and "Windowlicker" are perhaps his best known. His video for Björk's "All Is Full of Love" won multiple awards, including an MTV music video award for Breakthrough Video and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video. It was also the first ever music video to win a Gold Pencil at the D&AD Awards. It can still be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His video for Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" was nominated for the "Best Video" award at the Brit Awards 2000. He also directed Madonna's "Frozen" video which became an international hit and won the award for Best Special Effects at the 1998 MTV Music Video Awards.
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Chus Lampreave
Chus Lampreave (Madrid, December 11, 1930) is a Spanish actress.
She started in movies in 1958, but she became internationally known thanks to her roles in films by Pedro Almodóvar, where she plays old ladies with maternal or pastoral traits.
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David Arnold
David Arnold (born 23 January 1962) is an English film composer best known for scoring five James Bond films, the 1994 film Stargate, the 1996 film Independence Day, the 1998 film Godzilla and the television series Little Britain and Sherlock.
While attending a Sixth Form College in Luton, Arnold became friends with director Danny Cannon. Danny initially created short films for which David was asked to write the music. The two made their respective major film debuts with The Young Americans. "Play Dead", a song from the film with singer Björk, charted #12 in the UK. The following year he scored Stargate and Last of the Dogmen, with excerpts from the former ranking third in the most commonly used soundtrack cues for film trailers.
Arnold would then go on to compose music for Stargate director Roland Emmerich's next two movies, Independence Day and Godzilla, as well as four movies for director John Singleton. In addition, he has also scored various comedies, dramas, and nineteenth-century period pieces, as well as providing music for several British television shows including the 2000 remake of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Little Britain. During film production, his compositions are conducted by Nicholas Dodd. In 2010, he composed the music for Come Fly With Me, a British television series from the producers of Little Britain.
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Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors are an American rock band, consisting of David Longstreth (vocals, guitar, musical direction; born December 17, 1981), Amber Coffman (vocals, guitar), Angel Deradoorian (vocals, keyboard, samples, guitar, bass), Brian McOmber (drums), Nat Baldwin (bass), and Haley Dekle (vocals). They have released seven full-length albums through 2012.
Longstreth's first album, The Graceful Fallen Mango, was released in 2002 under his own name and introduced his distinctive use of song arrangements and his combination of lo-fi and hi-fi production. The album was a project that Longstreth began as a freshman while studying at Yale University. With the help of Adam Forkner of Yume Bitsu, Longstreth recorded and released The Glad Fact on the Western Vinyl label under the name "The Dirty Projectors." In 2005, the band released The Getty Address, a concept album about musician Don Henley that features extensive orchestral and choral accompaniment. The diverse, stripped-down New Attitude EP followed in 2006 and featured inklings of the band's later vocal interplay and guitar work.
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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( /ɡɨˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and, occasionally, singer.
Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated . . . Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time."
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.
In the 1940s Gillespie, together with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.
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Dokaka
Dokaka is a Japanese beatboxer who performs music solely by multitracking his own voice, generally with one instrument per track. (That is, he records himself mimicking the bass part to a song, then records himself mimicking the drum part in sync with the first recording, and so on.)
He has distributed his recordings primarily as free downloads from his website; these include interpretations of works by King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Wes Montgomery, Slayer, the Rolling Stones, and Miles Davis, among many others. He largely records covers of heavy metal, prog, jazz and videogame theme music, though he has also written and recorded original songs. Dokaka also appears on Björk's Medúlla (2004) and Katamari wa Damacy, the soundtrack to the video game We Love Katamari (2005).
On May 23, 2006, the artist's website, dokaka.com, was hacked and vandalized by a criminal hacking group claiming to be from Turkey. The website is now back up, with details of his forthcoming album entitled 'Human Interface'.
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E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings (in the style of some of his poems—see name and capitalization, below), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry.
<poem> i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes </poem>
Born into a Unitarian family, Cummings exhibited transcendental leanings his entire life. As he grew in maturity and age, Cummings moved more toward an "I, Thou" relationship with God. His journals are replete with references to “le bon Dieu” as well as prayers for inspiration in his poetry and artwork (such as “Bon Dieu! may I some day do something truly great. amen.”). Cummings "also prayed for strength to be his essential self ('may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong'), and for relief of spirit in times of depression ('almighty God! I thank thee for my soul; & may I never die spiritually into a mere mind through disease of loneliness')."
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Eiko Ishioka
Eiko Ishioka (石岡 瑛子, Ishioka Eiko?, July 12, 1938, Tokyo – January 21, 2012, Tokyo) was an Oscar-winning costume designer, known for her work in stage, screen, advertising, and print media, and has been called "Japan’s leading art director and graphic designer." Reported on January 21, 2012, Ishioka died of pancreatic cancer in Tokyo, Japan.
Ishioka's awards include the 1985 Cannes Film Festival Award for Artistic Contribution for her production design of Paul Schrader’s film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a 1987 Grammy Award for the artwork for Miles Davis' album Tutu, two 1988 Tony Award nominations for the stage and costume design of the Broadway play M. Butterfly, and a 1992 Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Eiko Ishioka graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Her work is included in the permanent collection of museums throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1992 she was selected to be a member of the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame.
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Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
John was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996, John received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998.
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English people
The English (from Old English: Englisc) are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens. Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, a Germanic people originally from Northern Germany who migrated to Britain.
Historically, the English population is descended from several genetically similar peoples—the earlier Britons (or Brythons), the Germanic tribes that settled in the area, including Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, who founded what was to become England (from the Old English Englaland), and the later Danes, Normans and other groups. Following the Act of Union in 1707, in which the Kingdom of England became part of the Kingdom of Great Britain, English customs and identity became closely aligned with British customs and identity.
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛnnjo morriˈkoːne], (born November 10, 1928) is an Italian composer and conductor, who has written music for more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces. Morricone is most famous for his work in the Spaghetti Westerns directed by his friend Sergio Leone, including A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) but his career includes a wide range of composition genres making him one of the film world's most versatile artists. He is considered as one of the most influential film music composers of the 20th century.
Born in Rome, Italy, Morricone took up the trumpet as a child and attended the National Academy of Santa Cecilia to take lessons on the instrument at the age of nine. He formally entered a conservatory at the age of 12, enrolling in a four-year harmony programme. He received his trumpet diploma in 1946 and started working professionally, composing the music to "Il Mattino" ("The Morning"). Morricone soon gained popularity by writing his first background music for radio dramas and quickly moved into film.
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Eumir Deodato
Eumir Deodato (full name Eumir Deodato de Almeida, born 22 June 1943, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, record producer and arranger, primarily based in the jazz realm but who historically has been known for eclectic melding of big band and combo jazz with varied elements of rock/pop, R&B/funk, Brazilian/Latin, and symphonic or orchestral music. Mainly, his records can be categorized as pop/jazz or crossover jazz. His successes as an original artist (keyboards) occurred mainly in the 1970s. Since then, he has produced or arranged music in more than 500 albums for acts ranging from Kool and the Gang to Björk, Christophe and k.d. lang. His daughter, Kennya Deodato, is married to American actor Stephen Baldwin.
Deodato was born of Italian and Portuguese parents. He is a musical autodidact, starting with the accordion at age 12 but rapidly learning instrumental and orchestral skills that culminated in his first recording session at age 17. Originally working as pianist and arranger in the Rio bossa nova scene, he rapidly outgrew this and, along with many other Brazilian musicians during the military dictatorship[citation needed] in their country, moved to New York, working with composer Luiz Bonfá and later with producer Creed Taylor as an arranger. Additionally, he became keyboardist in Taylor's expanding group of backing artists.
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Flux of Pink Indians
Flux of Pink Indians were an English anarcho-punk/post punk band, that originated from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.
The band formed from the remaining members of the Epileptics (who later changed their name to Epi-X due to letters of complaint from The British Epilepsy Association) by Colin Latter (vocals) and Derek Birkett (bass guitar) with guitarists Andy Smith, Neil Puncher, and drummer Sid Ation (who was also a member of Rubella Ballet). Their debut EP, Neu Smell, was released on Crass Records in 1981.
Ation departed FOPI to work full time with his other band Rubella Ballet, and was soon replaced by Bambi, formerly of Discharge, while Smith was replaced by Simon Middlehurst. However, both departed quickly for their original band, The Insane. While auditioning for their replacements, Puncher also left, and the line up was completed by former Darlex and Epileptics guitarist Kevin Hunter and drummer Martin Wilson. The band's debut album, Strive to Survive Causing the Least Suffering Possible was premiered on the band's own Spiderleg label.
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Goldie
Clifford Joseph Price, better known as Goldie (born 19 September 1965) is an English electronic music artist, disc jockey, visual artist and actor. He is well known for his innovations in the jungle and drum and bass music genres, having previously gained exposure for his work as a graffiti artist. His acting credits include the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, Guy Ritchie's Snatch and the British soap opera EastEnders. He has appeared in a number of celebrity reality television shows including Celebrity Big Brother UK, Strictly Come Dancing and Come Dine With Me.
He is of Jamaican and Scottish heritage. He was put up for adoption and raised in child-care homes and by several foster parents. Price was a member of the breakdance crew Westside, based in the Whitmore Reans and Heath Town areas of Wolverhampton, in the 1980s. He later joined a breakdance crew called the Bboys, and made his name as a graffiti artist in the West Midlands.
His artwork around Birmingham and Wolverhampton was featured heavily in Afrika Bambaataa's documentary Bombing. He took part in the largest ever British graffiti art battle alongside Bristol artist Robert "3D" Del Naja, who later formed Massive Attack. He is mentioned for his graffiti in the book Spraycan Art by Henry Chalfant and James Prigoff, which contained several samples of his art.
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Graham Massey
Graham Massey (born 4 August 1960, Manchester) was a founding member of the British band, 808 State, formed in 1988 in Manchester, England. Originally a hip-hop group called Hit Squad Manchester, the band shifted to an acid house sound, recording their debut album, Newbuild in 1988 under the new name 808 State.
The band was named after Massey's favourite drum machine, the Roland TR-808, ironically later admitting that until the late 1980s they thought Roland drum machines were "severely uncool." Massey had also been a member of the D.I.Y. band Danny And The Dressmakers doing a mixture of "bad" music and Gong covers (living up to their tagline "We don't play our instruments, we abuse them") and also hippy - fusion band Aqua in the 1970s, along with violinist Graham Clark (also later of Gong).
Massey worked with Björk on her first solo album named Debut, which sold almost three million copies. He then subsequently worked with Björk on her next album Post, which became her second biggest selling album after Debut.
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Guðmundur Gunnarsson
Guðmundur Gunnarsson (born 29 October 1945) is an Icelandic electrician and union leader. The father of the singer Björk (Björk Guðmundsdóttir), he is a nationally known figure in his own right as the leader of the Icelandic Electricians' Union, Rafiðnaðarsamband Íslands (RSÍ).
Guðmundur's parents were Gunnar Guðmundsson and Hallfríður Guðmundsdóttir. He qualified as a journeyman electrician in 1966. He graduated from the Technical College of Iceland in 1969. Gunnarsson has been head of the electricians union since 1993.
He was a municipal representative of the Sjálfstæðisflokksins í Reykjavík (Independence Party) in Reykjavík from 1994 to 1998 and Chairman of the Nordic Federation of Electricians' Unions from 1994 to 1996 and from 2004 to 2006.
Guðmundur has written numerous textbooks for electricians.
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György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti (Hungarian: Ligeti György Sándor, [ˈliɡɛti ˈɟørɟ ˈʃaːndor]; May 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006) was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born into a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he lived in Hungary before emigrating and becoming an Austrian citizen.
Ligeti was born in Dicsőszentmárton, which was renamed Târnăveni in 1945, in Transylvania to a Hungarian Jewish family. Ligeti recalls that his first exposure to languages other than Hungarian came one day while listening to a conversation among the Romanian-speaking town police. Before that he hadn't known that other languages existed. He moved to Kolozsvár (Cluj) with his family when he was 6, and he was not to return to the town of his birth until the 1990s.
Ligeti received his initial musical training in the conservatory at Kolozsvár (Cluj), and during the summers privately with Pál Kadosa in Budapest.
In 1940, Northern Transylvania was occupied by Hungary following the Second Vienna Award. In 1944, Ligeti's education was interrupted when he was sent to a forced labor brigade by the Horthy regime. His brother, age 16, was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, and both of his parents were sent to Auschwitz. His mother was the only other survivor of his immediate family.
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Harmony Korine
Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author.
He is best known for writing Kids, and for directing Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Mister Lonely. His film Trash Humpers premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and won the main prize, the DOX Award, at CPH:DOX in November 2009. As of March 2012, Korine's project Spring Breakers was under production in Florida.
Korine was born in Bolinas, California to Eve and Sol Korine and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Sol produced documentaries for PBS in the 1970s about an "array of colourful Southern characters" and taught Korine how to use a Bolex camera. As a child, Korine watched movies with his father, who rented Buster Keaton films and took him to see Even Dwarfs Started Small in the theater. Korine reminisces, "I knew there was a poetry in cinema that I had never seen before that was so powerful." Korine spent his childhood in Nashville, attending Hillsboro High School before moving to New York City to live with his grandmother. Korine also spent some time living with his parents in a commune, which helped to inspire the commune setting of Mister Lonely. As a teenager, Korine frequented revival theaters, watching classic films by John Cassavetes, Werner Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Alan Clarke. In an interview with Bruce LaBruce, Korine briefly mentioned that he studied Business Administration in college. Other sources state that he studied Dramatic Writing at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University for one semester before dropping out to pursue a career as a professional skateboarder.
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Hector Zazou
Hector Zazou (July 11, 1948 – September 8, 2008) was a prolific French composer and record producer who worked with, produced, and collaborated with an international array of recording artists. He worked on his own and other artists' albums, including Sandy Dillon, Mimi Goese, Barbara Gogan, Sevara Nazarkhan, Carlos Nuñez, Italian group PGR, Anne Grete Preus, Laurence Revey, and Sainkho since 1976.
Zazou first came to international attention as part of the ZNR duo with Joseph Racaille, where both played electric keyboards. Their 1976 debut album Barricades 3 was notable for its "strong Satie influence, stripped to minimal essentials, everything counts".
Long-time collaborators include trumpeter Mark Isham; guitarist Lone Kent; cellist and singer Caroline Lavelle; trumpeter Christian Lechevretel, who has appeared on all of Zazou's albums after Sahara Blue; clarinetist and flutist Renaud Pion, who has appeared on all of Zazou's albums since Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses; drummer Bill Rieflin; and Japanese recording artist Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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HK119
HK119 is the alter ego of Finnish multimedia artist, singer and recording artist Heidi Kilpeläinen, who lives and works in London, UK.
Having graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2004 with an MA in Fine Art from combining her skills as a performance artist with stage design, video production and her budding music production, Kilpeläinen felt that the output of this mix of performance art and multimedia was best delivered through the fictitious character of HK119; a character born out of science fiction references and a fictitious barcode number.
The character of HK119 was a tongue-in-cheek critique at mass consumerism, and Kilpeläinen's theories regarding humanity's relationship with everything from socialism and capitalism, to technology and celebrity culture, all delivered in an underlying humorous tone.
Kilpeläinen's lo-fi, do-it-yourself approach to recording music (initially alone, on a digital 8-track (multitrack) recorder) and recording her own music videos dressed in everyday materials (such as tin foil and paper) for each track, provided Kilpeläinen with enough material to form the basis of her live stage shows, for which her videos would frequently provide a backdrop, while she sang over a backing track of her songs. HK119's live performances quickly gained her comparisons to artists such as David Bowie, Grace Jones and Nina Hagen due to Kilpeläinen's signature style of black catsuits, robotic dancing, giant cardboard headpieces and inflated black refuse bags.
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Icelanders
Icelanders are a Scandinavian ethnic group and a nation, native to Iceland.
On 17 June 1944, when an Icelandic republic was founded the Icelanders became independent from the Danish monarchy. The language spoken is Icelandic, a North Germanic language, and Lutheranism is the predominant religion. Historical and DNA records indicate that around 60 to 80 percent of the settlers were of Norse origin (primarily from Western Norway) and the rest were of Celtic stock from the British Isles.
Icelanders, especially those living on the main island, have had a tumultuous history. Development of the island was slow due to a lack of interest from the countries controlling it for most of its history: Norway, Denmark–Norway, and ultimately Denmark. Through this time, Iceland had relatively few contacts with the outside world. The island became independent in union with Denmark in 1918. Since 1944, Iceland has been a republic, and Icelandic society has undergone a rapid modernisation process in the post-independence era.
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Inuit
The Inuit (Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, "People") are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, the United States, and Russia. Inuit is a collective noun; the singular is "Inuk". The Inuit language is grouped under the Eskimo-Aleut family.
In the United States, the term Eskimo is commonly used in reference to these groups, because it includes both of Alaska's Yupik and Inupiat peoples while "Inuit" is not proper or accepted as a term for the Inupiat. No collective term exists for both peoples other than "Eskimo". However, natives in Canada and Greenland view the name as pejorative and "Inuit" has become more common. In Canada, sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982 named the "Inuit" as a distinctive group of aboriginal Canadians who are not included under either the First Nations or the Métis.
The Inuit live throughout most of the Canadian Arctic and subarctic in the territory of Nunavut; "Nunavik" in the northern third of Quebec; "Nunatsiavut" and "Nunatukavut" in Labrador; and in various parts of the Northwest Territories, particularly around the Arctic Ocean. These areas are known in Inuktitut as the "Inuit Nunangat". In the United States, Inupiat live on the North Slope in Alaska and on Little Diomede Island. In Russia, they live on Big Diomede Island. The Kalaallit and other natives of Greenland are the descendants of migrations from Canada and are citizens of Denmark, although not of the European Union.
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Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern (Ukrainian: Исаак Стерн, Russian: Айзек Стерн; July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was a Ukrainian-born violinist and conductor. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.
Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in Kremenets, Ukraine. He was fourteen months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother, then in 1928 enrolled at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied until 1931 before going on to study privately with Louis Persinger. He returned to the San Francisco Conservatory to study for five years with Naoum Blinder, to whom he said he owed the most. At his public début on February 18, 1936, aged 15, he played Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Pierre Monteux. Reflecting on his background, Stern once memorably quipped that cultural exchanges between the US and Soviet Russia were simple affairs: "They send us their Jews from Odessa, and we send them our Jews from Odessa."
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Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (French pronunciation: [izabɛl yˈpɛʁ]; born 16 March 1953/1955) is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière (1978) and La pianiste (2001). She is also the most nominated actress for the César Award, with 13 nominations. She won a César Award for Best Actress in 1996 for her performance in La Cérémonie.
Huppert was born in Paris, the daughter of Annick Beau, a teacher of English, and Raymond Huppert, a safe manufacturer. Her father was born Jewish and converted to Catholicism; he was descended from immigrants from Hungary. She was raised in a western suburb of Ville-d'Avray. Huppert was encouraged by her mother to begin acting at a young age, and became a teenage star in Paris. She later attended Versailles Conservatoire, where she won a prize for her acting. She is also an alumna of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris, CNSAD.
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Japanese people
The Japanese people (日本人, Nihonjin, Nipponjin?) are a nationality originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries are referred to as nikkeijin (日系人?). The term ethnic Japanese may also be used in some contexts to refer to a locus of ethnic groups including the Yamato, Ainu and Ryukyuan people.
The Japanese language is a Japonic language that is sometimes treated as a language isolate; it is also related to the Ryukyuan languages, and both are suggested to be part of the proposed Altaic language family. The Japanese language has a tripartite writing system using Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Domestic Japanese people use primarily Japanese for daily interaction. The adult literacy rate in Japan exceeds 99%.
Japanese religion has traditionally been syncretic in nature, combining elements of Buddhism and Shinto. Shinto, a polytheistic religion with no book of religious canon, is Japan's native religion. Shinto was one of the traditional grounds for the right to the throne of the Japanese imperial family, and was codified as the state religion in 1868 (State Shinto was abolished by the American occupation in 1945). Mahayana Buddhism came to Japan in the sixth century and evolved into many different sects. Today the largest form of Buddhism among Japanese people is the Jōdo Shinshū sect founded by Shinran.[citation needed]
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Jeon Do-yeon
Jeon Do-yeon (전도연) (born February 11, 1973) is a highly-acclaimed South Korean actress who has won many awards including best actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. She is most famous for her extraordinary portrayal of a broken woman who has lost everything in Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine.
Jeon Do-yeon spent five years starring in television dramas before achieving instant star status with her film debut opposite Han Suk-kyu in The Contact. She went on to establish a reputation as a "chameleon" who can take on a wide variety of roles, from her performance as a doctor in the hit melodrama A Promise, to that of a schoolgirl in The Harmonium in My Memory to that of a wife having an adulterous affair in Happy End. In 1999 and 2000 she received a Best Actress award from both the Blue Dragon and the Grand Bell awards for her role in The Harmonium in My Memory.
In 2001 she very skillfully played a very ordinary bank teller in Park Heung-shik's debut I Wish I Had a Wife. After starring as the tough-talking "Sunglasses" in Ryu Seung-wan's No Blood No Tears, Jeon spent time acting in a TV drama titled Shoot for the Stars. In 2003 she found box-office success in E J-yong's Untold Scandal, based on the famous French novel Dangerous Liaisons. The following year she reunited with director Park Heung-shik in a dual role for the time-bending melodrama My Mother, the Mermaid.
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John Tavener
Sir John Kenneth Tavener (born 28 January 1944) is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos". He began as a prodigy; in 1968, at the age of 24, he was described by the Guardian as "the musical discovery of the year", while The Times said he was "among the very best creative talents of his generation." During his career he has become one of the best known and regarded composers of his generation. Tavener was knighted in 2000 for his services to music and has won an Ivor Novello Award.
John Kenneth Tavener was born on 28 January 1944 in Wembley, London, England, and claims to be a direct descendant of the 16th-century composer John Taverner. He was educated at Highgate School (where a fellow pupil was John Rutter) and at the Royal Academy of Music, where his tutors included Sir Lennox Berkeley. He first came to prominence in 1968 with his dramatic cantata The Whale, based on the Old Testament story of Jonah. It was premièred at the London Sinfonietta's début concert and later recorded by Apple Records. The following year he began teaching at Trinity College of Music, London. Other works released by Apple included his Celtic Requiem. In 1977, he joined the Russian Orthodox Church. Orthodox theology and Orthodox liturgical traditions became a major influence on his work. He was particularly drawn to its mysticism, studying and setting to music the writings of Church Fathers and competing a setting of the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, the principal eucharistic liturgy of the Orthodox Church.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto. In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs ("Urge for Going," "Chelsea Morning," "Both Sides, Now," "The Circle Game") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell and her popular songs like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Woodstock" helped define an era and a generation. Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one of the best albums ever made. Musically restless, Mitchell switched labels and began moving toward jazz rhythms by way of lush pop textures on 1974's Court and Spark, her best-selling LP, featuring her radio hits "Help Me" and "Free Man in Paris."
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José Antonio Abreu
José Antonio Abreu (born May 7, 1939 in Valera) is a Venezuelan pianist, economist, educator, activist, and politician.
Born in the city of Valera in 1939, Abreu graduated ¨Summa Cum Laude¨ as an Economist at Universidad Católica Andres Bello and he was awarded a PhD degree in Petroleum Economics from the same university in 1961. Abreu also did some graduate work at the University of Michigan. He served as a Deputy at the Chamber of Deputies in the Congress of Venezuela. After his political career, he also worked as a professor of economics and law at Universidad Simón Bolívar and his Alma Mater. He would return to politics briefly in 1983 to serve as Minister of Culture.
Abreu began to study music with Doralisa Jiménez de Medina in Barquisimeto. Later, he attended the Caracas Musical Declamation Academy in 1957, where he studied piano with Moisés Moleiro, organ and harpsichord with Evencio Castellanos, and composition with Vicente Emilio Sojo. In 1967, he received the Symphonic Music National Prize for his musical ability. It was in 1975 that he founded El Sistema, formally known as the Foundation for the National Network of Youth and Children Orchestras of Venezuela.
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Juliette Binoche
Juliette Binoche (French pronunciation: [ʒyljɛt binɔʃ]; born 9 March 1964) is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international accolades, is a published author and has appeared on stage across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during adolescence. After performing in several stage productions, she was propelled into the world of auteurs Jean-Luc Godard (Hail Mary, 1985), Jacques Doillon (Family Life, 1985) and André Téchiné, who made her a star in France with the leading role in his 1985 drama Rendez-vous. Her sensual performance in her English-language debut The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), directed by Philip Kaufman, launched her international career.
She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue (1993), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César. Three years later Binoche gained further acclaim in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996), for which she was awarded an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress in addition to the Best Actress Award at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival. For her performance in Lasse Hallström's romantic comedy Chocolat (2000) Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Kati Outinen
Anna Katriina Outinen (born August 17, 1961) is a Finnish actress who has often played leading female roles in Aki Kaurismäki's films.
Outinen was born in Helsinki. Having studied under Jouko Turkka during his "reign" of drama studies in Finland, she nevertheless has never been associated with the "turkkalaisuus" school of acting methodology. Her breakthrough role was as a tough girl in the generational classic youth film Täältä tullaan elämä (1980) by Tapio Suominen.
In 1984, she appeared in Aikalainen.
Besides a strong domestic reputation gained through a widely varied list of roles in theater and television drama, film director Aki Kaurismäki's films have brought Outinen international attention and even adulation, particularly in Germany and France. Her first work together with Kaurismäki was Shadows in Paradise in 1986. At the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Outinen won the award for Best Actress for the Kaurismäki film The Man Without a Past.
Outinen also works as a Professor in Acting at the Theatre Academy Helsinki.
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Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945, in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.
Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as a group leader and a solo performer. His improvisations draw not only from the traditions of jazz, but from other genres as well, especially Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music.
In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize, the first (and to this day only) recipient not to share the prize with a co-recipient, and in 2004 he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize.
In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll.
Jarrett grew up in suburban Allentown, Pennsylvania, with significant early exposure to music. He possessed absolute pitch, and he displayed prodigious musical talents as a young child. He began piano lessons just before his third birthday, and at age five he appeared on a TV talent program hosted by the swing bandleader Paul Whiteman. The young Jarrett gave his first formal piano recital at the age of seven, playing works by composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Saint-Saëns, and ending with two of his own compositions. Encouraged especially by his mother, Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, including Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute.
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Kelis
Kelis Rogers ( /kəˈliːs/; born August 21, 1979), better known mononymously as Kelis, is an American singer-songwriter. She has won Brit Awards, Q Awards, and NME Awards, and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Outside her native United States, she has had nine top ten singles in the United Kingdom alone. Kelis appeared on Moby's Area One Tour, supported U2 on the European leg of their Elevation Tour and headlined her own All Hearts Tour with Robyn.
Kelis was born and raised in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Her first name is a portmanteau of her father's name, Kenneth (1944–2000), and her mother's name, Eveliss. Her father Kenneth was an African American jazz musician and Pentecostal minister, and was formerly a professor at Wesleyan University. Her mother Eveliss is a Puerto Rican-Chinese fashion designer who inspired Kelis to pursue her singing career. She has three sisters, Kelis being the third born of the four girls.
As a child, Kelis sang in church choirs and played violin, piano, and saxophone while attending Manhattan Country School, a private school. At the age of 13, Kelis shaved off all of her hair. In an interview with Charlotte Roche, Kelis says she was kicked out of her parents house at the age of sixteen for having bad behavior stating that she would sometimes clash with her mother, but continued her education at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she formed the R&B trio BLU (Black Ladies United). Kelis was also a bartender and a sales associate at a clothing store before graduating high school saying that she stole certain items from her job to get by from living out of her parents house; afterwards, a friend introduced Kelis to The Neptunes (Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo); they formed a strong bond and with their support, landed herself a record deal.
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Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is an American-German actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories (1989). At the age of 12, Dunst gained widespread recognition playing the role of vampire Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994), a performance for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. The same year she appeared in Little Women, to further acclaim.
Dunst achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–07). Since then her films have included the romantic comedy Wimbledon (2004), the romantic science fiction Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Cameron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006) and starred in the comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008). She won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 for her performance in Lars von Trier's Melancholia.
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Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier (Danish pronunciation: [ˈlɑːs fʌn ˈtʁiːˀɐ]; born Lars Trier; 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective – an avant-garde filmmaking movement – although his own films have taken a variety of approaches. His work has frequently divided the critics.
Von Trier began making films at the age of eleven. Raised by a communist mother and a socialist father in an austere environment, he converted at the age of 30 to the Catholic Church. Von Trier suffers periodically from depression, as well as various fears and phobias, including an intense fear of flying. As he himself said in an interview, "Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking".. His first publicly released film was an experimental short called The Orchid Gardener (1977) and his first feature film came seven years later with The Element of Crime (1984). Among many other prizes, awards and nominations, he is the recipient of the Palme d'Or, the Grand Prix, and the Prix du Jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Leila Arab
Leila (born Leila Arab) is an Iranian-born recording artist, producer and DJ based in London, England.
She has worked with prominent European musicians such as Björk, and has released music on Rephlex Records, XL Recordings and Warp Records.
She has also recorded experimental and rare music under the alias Grammatix (credited as Aliel Bara) and Little Miss Specta. Most recently, Leila released the album U&I for Warp Records featuring Mt.Sims in January 2012, her latest since 2008's Blood, Looms & Blooms.
In 1993, she began working with Bjork for the "Debut" and "Post" tours. In 1998 she released her debut album Like Weather on Rephlex Records which included the single Don't Fall Asleep. The album features vocal contributions from Donna Paul, Luca Santucci and Leila's sister, Roya Arab. In 2000 she released Courtesy of Choice on XL Recordings, with vocal contributions from the same singers. In 2003 , she rejoined Bjork for her 2003 greatest hits tour. In 2005, a collaboration between Leila and Bjork from the greatest hits tour called "Nameless" (subsequently titled "Storm") appeared on the Matthew Barney film and soundtrack of Drawing Restraint 9. In 2008 she released her album Blood, Looms and Blooms on Warp Records. On this album, Leila worked with Terry Hall and Martina Topley-Bird in addition to her long term collaborators Luca Santucci and Roya Arab. In 2009 she contributed a cover of an Aphex Twin song to the Warp20 (Recreated) compilation. Her song "Underwaters" is the track on the 2011 Avios advert with the flying electrical equipment.
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LFO (band)
LFO is an English electronic music act on the Warp Records label. LFO were pioneers of the bass-heavy techno, IDM, and acid house music of the late 1980s to mid-1990s. Originally, the group was composed of Gez Varley and Mark Bell. LFO is now Bell alone.
The group's name is derived from the abbreviation for the term low-frequency oscillator; a synthesizer function widely used in electronic music, especially dubstep.
Varley and Bell met while studying at Leeds and gave their first track, the eponymous "LFO", to Nightmares on Wax. The popularity of the demo in clubs led to the track being released by the Sheffield-based Warp Records in 1990, and it was a Top 20 hit in the U.K., reaching number 12 in the singles charts in July.
Their follow-up single, "We Are Back", was released in the summer of 1991.
DJ Martin (Martin Williams) is credited as a cowriter and coproducer of the track "LFO" but was not a member of the group. Mark Bell explains:
"We gave a tape of our recordings to DJ Martin who helped loads with arranging our tracks so it'd work on the dancefloor. We'd just been messing around with drum machines since we were like thirteen, tapping away at them like they were arcade games, making tapes to play our mates at school. Anyway, DJ Martin would play our cassettes in his sets and people would go mental - in a good way - cos they were totally raw."
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Lola Dueñas
Lola Dueñas (born 6 October 1971) is a Spanish actress.
She is the daughter of Nicolás Dueñas and studied in the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona.
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Maggie Cheung
Maggie Cheung Man yuk (born 20 September 1964) is a Hong Kong actress. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983. Some of her most commercially successful work was in the action genre, but Cheung once said in an interview that of all the work she has done, the films that really meant something to her are Song of Exile, Centre Stage, Comrades: Almost a Love Story and In the Mood for Love. As Emily Wang in Clean, her last starring role to date, she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Cheung is multilingual, having learned to speak English, Mandarin and French. Her native language is Cantonese.
Born in Hong Kong, Maggie Cheung traces her family roots to Shanghai. In 1971, she entered Primary one of St. Paul's Convent School. Her family emigrated from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom when she was eight. She spent part of her childhood and adolescence in England. She returned to Hong Kong at the age of 18 in 1982 for vacation, but ended up staying for modeling assignments and other commitments; she also shortly obtained a sales job at Lane Crawford department store. In 1983, she entered the Miss Hong Kong pageant and won the first runner-up and the Miss Photogenic award as well. She was a semi-finalist in the Miss World pageant the same year.
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Marie-Josée Croze
Marie-Josée Croze (French pronunciation: [maʁi ʒoze kʁoz]; born February 23, 1970) is a Canadian actress.
Croze was born in Montreal, QC. She won the award for Best Actress at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in The Barbarian Invasions. She was cast by prominent Hollywood director Steven Spielberg for his film Munich which was released in December 2005. She also made a major appearance as a speech therapist in Julian Schnabel's 2007 film adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
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Mark Bell (LFO)
Mark Bell is a musician and producer of electronic house music who, as well as being a member of the pioneering electronic music group LFO on Warp Records, has collaborated with a wide range of artists such as Björk and Depeche Mode, for whom he took on the production duties for the entire Exciter album. Bell hails from Lofthouse, West Yorkshire, between Leeds and Wakefield, and went to Rodillian High School.
He had the important role of producing Björk's 1997 album Homogenic, a collaboration that continues to the present day. He was involved in her tours in 1998 and the 2007–2008 tour for her album Volta. Bell can be seen on several of Björk's live music DVDs released for her DVD box set running a complicated rack of equipment that produces the sequencing required for Björk to perform her music live. He also appears, suspended in mid-air, in the video for her single Declare Independence. He has contributed numerous remixes to her singles and compilations as well as remixing the likes of Depeche Mode and Dave Clarke.
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Matmos
Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo originally from San Francisco but now residing in Baltimore signed to the Matador Records label. M. C. (Martin) Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances, including notably J Lesser. Much of their work could be classified as a pop version of the musique concrète genre[citation needed]. The name Matmos refers to the seething lake of evil slime beneath the city Sogo in the 1968 film Barbarella.[citation needed] The name might also originate from Swedish, literally meaning "mashed food".
In 1998, Matmos remixed the Björk single Alarm Call. Subsequently, Matmos worked with Björk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medúlla (2004), as well as her Vespertine and Greatest Hits tours. In November 2004, Matmos spent 97 hours in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as artists in residence, performing music with friends, musical guests and onlookers. The live album Work, Work, Work, essentially a "best of" collection of the session, was released as a free download from their website.
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Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works were sculptural installations combined with performance and video. Between 1994 and 2002 he created the Cremaster Cycle, a series of five films described by Jonathan Jones in The Guardian as "one of the most imaginative and brilliant achievements in the history of avant-garde cinema."
Matthew Barney was born March 25, 1967, in San Francisco, California. He lived in Boise, Idaho from 1973 to 1985, where he attended elementary, middle, and high school. His parents divorced and his mother moved to New York City, where he would frequently visit, and where he was introduced to the art scene. In 1989, he graduated from Yale University. His earliest works, created at Yale, were staged at the university’s athletic complex. In the 90s, Barney moved to New York, where he worked as a male model—more notably for J.Crew catalogues—a career that helped him finance his early work as an artist. Barney lives with his partner, singer Björk, with whom he had a daughter in 2002.
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Micachu
Mica Levi, known by her stage name Micachu (born 1987, Surrey, United Kingdom), is an English singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. She is classically trained and is best known for experimental music in a variety of genres.
Levi was born and raised in Surrey. The daughter of musicians, she started writing and playing music at the age of four. She studied violin, viola and composition at the Purcell School before being offered a scholarship to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study composition.
Levi performed as a DJ and MC around the UK garage and grime scene in London, and released a mixtape titled Filthy Friends, which was posted on her Myspace page. For Filthy Friends she enlisted the help of friends and musicians of various backgrounds including MCs Baker Trouble, Brother May, Man Like Me & Ghostpoet, singer-songwriter Jack Peñate, jazz band Troyka, London pop-band Golden Silvers, producers Kwes and Toddla T. Following its release, Filthy Friends became sought after on the London club scene.
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Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry (born May 8, 1963 in Versailles, France) is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène.[citation needed]
Gondry was born in Versailles, France. He is the grandson of inventor Constant Martin. He has a teenage son named Paul, who is also an artist.
Gondry's vision and career began with his emphasis on emotion, according to Gondry himself in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life by journalist Robert K. Elder. Much of his inspiration, he says, came from the film Le voyage en ballon.
When I watch this movie, I dream I’m flying and then I do stories where people are flying. I think it’s directly influencing.
His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui, in which he also served as a drummer. The style of his videos for Oui Oui caught the attention of music artist Björk, who asked him to direct the video for her song "Human Behaviour". The collaboration proved long-lasting, with Gondry directing a total of seven music videos for Björk. Other artists who have collaborated with Gondry on more than one occasion include Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines, Steriogram, Radiohead, and Beck. Gondry has also created numerous television commercials. He pioneered the "bullet time" technique later adapted in The Matrix,[citation needed] in a 1998 commercial for Smirnoff vodka, as well as directing a trio of inventive holiday-themed advertisements for clothing retailer Gap, Incorporated.
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Mike Patton
Michael Allan "Mike" Patton (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the experimental rock/alternative metal band Faith No More. He was also the founder and lead singer of Mr. Bungle, and has played with Tomahawk, Fantômas, Lovage, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Peeping Tom.
Known for his eclectic influences and experimental projects, Patton has earned critical praise for his diverse vocalization. He has many producer or co-producer credits with artists such as John Zorn, Sepultura, Melvins, Melt-Banana, and Kool Keith. He co-founded Ipecac Recordings with Greg Werckman in 1999, and has run the label since.
Patton was born and raised in Eureka, California, where he formed Mr. Bungle, with Trey Spruance and Trevor Dunn, in 1984. During the late '80s Mr Bungle recorded the cassette-only recordings, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny, Goddammit I Love America, Bowel of Chiley and OU818, featuring tracks that would later be included on their first Warner Brothers album.
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Min Xiaofen
Min Xiaofen (simplified Chinese: 闵小芬; traditional Chinese: 閔小芬; pinyin: Mǐn Xiǎofēn) is a Chinese pipa player and vocalist, known for her work in traditional Chinese music, contemporary classical music, and jazz.
She studied with her father, Min Ji-Qian, a professor and pipa instructor at Nanjing University, and performed as pipa soloist for the Nanjing National Music Orchestra from 1980 to 1992.
Min emigrated to the United States in 1992, first settling in San Francisco, California, and since that time has worked with numerous contemporary composers, including Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Carl Stone and John Zorn. She has worked with the jazz saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom.
Min lives in Forest Hills, Queens, New York. She is also a founder of Blue Pipa, Inc.
Min worked with Björk on the song "I See Who You Are" on Björk's album Volta, released on May 7, 2007.
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Nan Goldin
Nancy "Nan" Goldin (born, September 12, 1953, Washington, D.C.) is an American photographer.
Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington, to middle class Jewish parents whose ideas, moderately liberal and progressive, were put to the test when on April 12, 1965 their eldest daughter Barbara Holly, at the age of eighteen, committed suicide. After attending the nearby Lexington High School, she enrolled at the Satya Community School in Lincoln, where a teacher introduced her to the camera in 1968. Goldin was then fifteen years old. Her first solo show, held in Boston in 1973, was based on her photographic journeys among the city's gay and transsexual communities, to which she had been introduced by her friend David Armstrong. Goldin graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University in 1977/1978, where she had worked mostly with Cibachrome prints.
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt) (born 6 December 1929) is an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier. Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble in the 1950s, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement. Around 1970, Harnoncourt started to conduct opera and concert performances, soon leading renowned international symphony orchestras, and appearing at leading concert halls, operatic venues and festivals. His repertoire has since widened to include composers of the 19th and 20th century. In 2001 and 2003, he conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert. Harnoncourt is also the author of several books, mostly on questions of performance history and musical aesthetics.
Harnoncourt was born in Berlin, Germany. He was raised in Graz, Austria and studied music in Vienna. His mother, Ladislaja Gräfin von Meran, Freiin von Brandhoven, was the granddaughter of the Habsburg Archduke Johann, the 13th child of the Emperor Leopold II. He is thus descended from various Holy Roman Emperors and other European royalty. His father, Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt, was an engineer working in Berlin who had two children from a previous marriage. Two years after Nikolaus's birth, his brother Philipp was born. The family eventually moved to Graz, where Eberhard had obtained a post in the state-government (Landesregierung) of Styria.
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Olof Arnalds
Ólöf Arnalds (born 1980) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and indie musician who has been active within the Icelandic music scene for quite some time. Apart from her own music and being a touring member of múm since 2003, she has cooperated with bands and artists such as Stórsveit Nix Noltes, Mugison, Slowblow and Skúli Sverrisson. Between 1988 and 2002 Ólöf studied violin and classical singing, and in 2002-2006 she studied composition and new media at Iceland Academy of the Arts.
In 2007, her debut album Við Og Við was released by 12 Tónar. The album features a set of songs performed mostly in a traditional troubadour style.
Ólöf's second album is Innundir skinni and was released in September 2010.
Ólöf's cousin Ólafur Arnalds is also a well known neo-classical composer.
Ólöf's debut album Við og Við was originally only released in Iceland in 2007 on 12 Tónar, however, it wasn't released until 2009 in the United Kingdom and the USA after she had signed to One Little Indian Records.
However, even before being released on both sides of the Atlantic, word of mouth – including Björk's patronage - earned Við og Við high profile plaudits in the U.S., ranking in Paste Magazine's Top 100 Albums of 2007 and eMusic's editor's Best Albums of 2008 list.
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Omar Souleyman
Omar Souleyman is an Arab musician from Ra's al-'Ayn, Syria, in the north eastern region of Syria. He began his career in 1994, working with a number of musicians with whom he still performs, and around five hundred studio and live albums have been released under his name. (Eighty percent of those releases are recordings made at weddings and presented to the married couple, which are later copied and sold at local kiosks.) His music has reached a wider audience in recent years due to the American label Sublime Frequencies, from which he has been able to tour extensively and release three records. He appeared at the Glastonbury Festival in 2011, and performed during Chaos in Tejas in Austin, Texas in June 2011 . Souleyman has been chosen by Caribou to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they will co-curate in December 2011 in Minehead, England. In 2011 he recorded three re mixes for Björk's Biophilia, all found on the second disc of her "Crystalline Series".
He performs traditional Middle Eastern songs in Kurdish and Arabic. Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn confirmed that the band collaborated with Souleyman on a track that did not make their 2010 album Plastic Beach, Albarn said that the track will see a release one day, upon completion.
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Patti Smith
Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses.
Called the "Godmother of Punk", her work was a fusion of rock and poetry. Smith's most widely known song is "Because the Night", which was co-written with Bruce Springsteen and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978. In 2005, Patti Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, and in 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, she won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. She is also a recipient of the 2011 Polar Music Prize.
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Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM (born 18 June 1942) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of the Beatles (1960–1970) and Wings (1971–1981), he has been described by Guinness World Records as "The Most Successful Composer and Recording Artist of All Time", with 60 gold discs and sales of over 100 million albums and 100 million singles. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and with Lennon formed one of the most celebrated songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. After leaving the Beatles, he began a solo career and later formed the band Wings with his first wife, Linda Eastman, and singer-songwriter Denny Laine.
According to the BBC, his Beatles song "Yesterday" has been covered by over 2,200 artists—more than any other song. Wings' 1977 release, "Mull of Kintyre", became one of the best-selling singles ever in the UK, and he is "the most successful songwriter" in UK chart history, according to Guinness. As a songwriter or co-writer, he is included on thirty-one number one titles on the Billboard Hot 100, and as of 2012 he has sold over 15.5 million RIAA certified units in the United States.
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Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez (Spanish pronunciation: [peˈnelope kruθ ˈsantʃeθ]) (born April 28, 1974) is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón (1992), to critical acclaim. Her subsequent roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes (1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top (2000). Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in Vanilla Sky and Blow. Both films were released in 2001 and were commercially successful worldwide.
In the 2000s she has appeared in films from a wide range of genres, including the comedy Waking Up in Reno (2002), the thriller Gothika (2003), the Christmas movie Noel (2004), the action adventure Sahara (2005), the animated G-Force and the musical drama Nine. Her most notable films to date are Volver (2006), for which she earned Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), for which she received an Academy Award. She was the first Spanish actress in history to receive an Academy Award and the first Spanish actress to receive a star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album's biggest hit, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, and the song is the most played music video in the history of the station.
More recently, Gabriel has focused on producing and promoting world music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music. He has also been involved in various humanitarian efforts. Gabriel has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, and in 2007 he was honoured as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his “influence on generations of music makers.” Gabriel was also awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2009, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ bu.lɛːz]) (born 26 March 1925) is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.
Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics. He pursued the latter at Lyon before pursuing music at the Paris Conservatoire under Olivier Messiaen and the wife of Arthur Honegger, Andrée Vaurabourg.
Through Messiaen, Boulez discovered twelve-tone technique — which he would later study privately with René Leibowitz — and went on to write atonal music in a post-Webernian serial style. Boulez was initially part of a cadre of early supporters of Leibowitz, but due to an altercation with Leibowitz, their relations turned divisive, as Boulez spent much of his career promoting the music of Messiaen instead.
The first fruits of this were his cantatas Le visage nuptial and Le soleil des eaux for female voices and orchestra, both composed in the late 1940s and revised several times since, as well as the Second Piano Sonata of 1948, a well-received 32-minute work that Boulez composed at the age of 23. Thereafter, Boulez was influenced by Messiaen's research to extend twelve-tone technique beyond the realm of pitch organization, serialising durations, dynamics, mode of attack, and so on. This technique became known as integral serialism.
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Quincy Jones
Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is particularly recognized as the producer of the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, which has sold more than 110 million copies worldwide, and as the producer and conductor of the charity song “We Are the World”.
In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner Bob Russell became the first African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song "The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, he became the first African American to be nominated twice within the same year when he was nominated for Best Original Score for his work on the music of the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1971, Jones would receive the honor of becoming the first African American to be named musical director/conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. He was the first African American to win the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1995. He is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the most Oscar-nominated African American, each of them having seven nominations. At the 2008 BET Awards, Quincy Jones was presented with the Humanitarian Award. He was played by Larenz Tate in the 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray.
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Rahzel
Rahzel M. Brown, also known as simply Rahzel, is an American musician and beatboxer, formerly a member of The Roots.
Nicknamed the "Godfather of Noyze," Rahzel is known for an ability to sing or rap while simultaneously beatboxing, as evidenced in his performances of "Iron Man" and his signature song "If Your Mother Only Knew", a hidden track on Make the Music 2000. His talents are showcased in various solo projects as well as on Ben Harper's 2000 single, "Steal My Kisses." He also provided his own voice on video games SSX and SSX Tricky.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the most known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company.Frank Sinatra called Charles “the only true genius in show business.”
The influences upon his music were mainly jazz, blues, rhythm and blues and country artists of the day such as Art Tatum, Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Charles Brown, Louis Armstrong. His playing reflected influences from country blues and barrelhouse, and stride piano styles.
Rolling Stone ranked Charles number ten on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"
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Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice. Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also speaks fluent German and French, along with limited Italian. Her signature roles include Countess Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka, the title role in Massenet's Manon, the title role in Massenet's Thaïs, the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and the title role in Arabella.
A Richard Tucker Award winner, she regularly performs in opera houses and concert halls worldwide. In 2008 she was awarded the Swedish Polar Music Prize for her services in music.
Conductor Sir Georg Solti said of Fleming, "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing; the other was Renata Tebaldi."
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Robert Moog
Robert Arthur "Bob" Moog (/ˈmoʊɡ/ MOHG; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
Bob Moog's innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals.
A native of New York City, Moog attended the Bronx High School of Science in New York, graduating in 1952. Moog earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Queens College, New York in 1957, another in electrical engineering from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in engineering physics from Cornell University. Moog's awards include honorary doctorates from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (New York City) and Lycoming College (Williamsport, Pennsylvania).
During his lifetime, Moog founded two companies for manufacturing electronic musical instruments. He also worked as a consultant and vice president for new product research at Kurzweil Music Systems from 1984 to 1988, helping to develop the Kurzweil K2000. He spent the early 1990s as a research professor of music at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
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Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945, Bristol) is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career. He is married to English painter and songwriter Alfreda Benge.
Wyatt's mother was Honor Wyatt, a journalist with the BBC; his father, George Ellidge, was an industrial psychologist who joined the family only when Wyatt was about six. This extended family also included his half brother, actor Julian Glover, Honor Wyatt's son. Wyatt attended the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Canterbury and as a teenager lived with his parents in Lydden near Dover, where he was taught the drums by visiting American jazz drummer George Neidorf.
In 1962, Wyatt and Neidorf moved to Majorca where they stayed near the poet Robert Graves. The following year, Wyatt returned to England and joined the Daevid Allen Trio with Daevid Allen and Hugh Hopper. Allen subsequently left for France and Wyatt and Hopper formed The Wilde Flowers with Kevin Ayers, Richard Sinclair and Brian Hopper. Wyatt was initially the drummer in the Wilde Flowers, but following the departure of Ayers, he also became lead singer.
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Sandra Corveloni
Sandra Corveloni (São Paulo, born on May 9, 1965), is a Brazilian actress of film and stage.
Born and raised in São Paulo, Corveloni graduated in performing arts in the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), one of the largest and most prestigious private universities in Brazil.
In 2008, she won the Best Actress Award in the Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film Linha de Passe. This was her first role in a full-length motion picture. A miscarriage forced her to cancel her attendance at the Festival.
The director's name is listed in parenthesis.
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Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture - both physical and psychological - and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of extreme and violent stage action. Kane herself, as well as scholars of her work, such as Graham Saunders, identify some of her inspirations as expressionist theatre and Jacobean tragedy. Critics, including Aleks Sierz, have seen her work as part of what Sierz calls the In-Yer-Face style of theatre, a form of drama which broke away from the conventions of naturalist theatre. Kane's published work consists of five plays, one short film, Skin, and two newspaper articles for The Guardian.
Born in Brentwood, Essex, and raised by evangelical parents, Kane was a committed Christian in adolescence. Later, however, she rejected those beliefs. After attending Shenfield High School, she studied drama at Bristol University, graduating in 1992, and went on to take an MA course in playwriting at the University of Birmingham, led by the playwright David Edgar.
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Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the largest city proper by population in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities of the PRC, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010. It is a global city, with influence in commerce, culture, finance, media, fashion, technology, and transport. It is a major financial center and the busiest container port in the world.
Located in the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China, Shanghai sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. The municipality borders Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces to the west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.
Once a fishing and textiles town, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to European recognition of its favorable port location and economic potential. The city was one of several opened to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the first opium war and the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking which allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement. The city then flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became the undisputed financial hub of the Asia Pacific in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, the city's international influence declined. In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city.
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Sjón
Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson (born 27 August 1962), known as Sjón (pronounced /ˈʃoʊn/ SHOHN in English), is an internationally known Icelandic author and poet. His pen name is formed from his given name (Sigurjón), and means 'Sight'.
As a poet Sjón published his first volume of poetry, Sýnir ('Visions') in 1978 and has since published numerous books of poetry, prose and even children's novels. In 2005 Sjón was awarded the The Nordic Council's Literature Prize for the novel Skugga-Baldur ('The Blue Fox'), but was until his international breakthrough with that book perhaps best known in the English speaking world for writing the lyrics to several songs of the Icelandic singer Björk. His novels have been published in 23 languages, among them Italian, Spanish, Dutch, German, English, French and Turkish. The Blue Fox was nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2009.
Active on the Icelandic music scene since the early 80's Sjón has collaborated with many of the best known artists of the era and featured as guest vocalist on a rare Sugarcubes 12" single Luftgitar (air guitar) in 1987 using the name Johnny Triumph; this was accompanied by a music video of Sjón playing an invisible guitar with Björk and Einar Örn Benediktsson. Sjón would occasionally reprise this role for the final encore of Sugarcubes concerts, including the band's one-off 2006 reunion show in Reykjavík. Still involved in the Icelandic music scene, Sjón is on the board of the Bad Taste (Smekkleysa) record label and a member of the advisory board for Kraumur Music Fund, which "aim is to strengthen Icelandic musical life, primarily by supporting young musicians in performing and presenting their works."
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina, (Russian: Софи́я Асгатовна Губайду́лина, Tatar Cyrillic: София Әсгать кызы Гобәйдуллина, Latin: Sofia Äsğät qızı Ğöbäydullina) (born October 24, 1931) is a Russian composer of half Russian, half Tatar ethnicity.
Gubaidulina's music is marked by the use of unusual instrumental combinations. In Erwartung combines percussion (bongos, güiros, temple blocks, cymbals and tam-tams among others), bayan and saxophone quartet.
Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol, in the Tatar ASSR. She studied composition and piano at the Kazan Conservatory, graduating in 1954. In Moscow she undertook further studies at the Conservatory with Nikolay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963. She was awarded with Stalin-fellowship. Her music was deemed "irresponsible" during her studies in Soviet Russia, due to its exploration of alternative tunings. She was supported, however, by Dmitri Shostakovich, who in evaluating her final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path". However, she was allowed to express her modernism in various scores she composed for documentary films, including the 1968 production, On Submarine Scooters, a 70mm film shot in the unique Kinopanorama widescreen format.
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Soft Machine
Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre. Though they achieved little commercial success, they are considered by Allmusic to be "one of the more influential bands of their era, and certainly one of the most influential underground ones."
Soft Machine (billed as The Soft Machine up to 1969) were formed in mid-1966 by Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Mike Ratledge (organ) plus, for the first few gigs only, American guitarist Larry Nowlin. Allen, Wyatt and future bassist Hugh Hopper had first played together in the Daevid Allen Trio in 1963, occasionally accompanied by Ratledge. Wyatt, Ayers and Hopper had been founding members of the Wilde Flowers, later incarnations of which would include future members of another Canterbury band, Caravan.
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Sonny Rollins
Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.
Although Rollins was born in New York City, his parents were born in the United States Virgin Islands. Rollins received his first saxophone at age 13. He attended Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem. He said that a concert by Frank Sinatra there, accompanied by a plea for racial harmony, changed his life.
Rollins started as a pianist, changed to alto saxophone, and finally switched to tenor in 1946. During his high-school years, he played in a band with other future jazz legends Jackie McLean, Kenny Drew and Art Taylor. He was first recorded in 1949 with Babs Gonzales ( J. J. Johnson was the arranger of the group). In his recordings through 1954, he played with performers such as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk.
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Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel; October 22, 1969) is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich (that gave him an Academy Award for Best Director nomination) and the 2002 film Adaptation, and as the co-writer/director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.
He is well known also for his music video collaborations with Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Björk. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Jackass. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv. He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll.
He also co-founded Directors Label with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry.
Spiegel was born in Rockville, Maryland, and raised in Bethesda, Maryland and in Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania. His father, Arthur Spiegel III, was a distant relation of the Spiegel catalog family and founded APM Management Consultants. His mother, Sandy Granzow, is a writer, communications consultant in developing countries, and artist. His brother Sam (aka Squeak E. Clean) is a producer and DJ. Jonze attended SFAI in San Francisco, California.
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Steve Reich
Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich ( /ˈraɪʃ/; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who is one of the pioneering composers of minimal music along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass.
His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, "Pendulum Music" and "Four Organs"). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains.
Reich's style of composition influenced many other composers and musical groups. Reich has been described, in The Guardian by music critic Andrew Clements, as one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history", and the critic Kyle Gann has said Reich "may...be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer."
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
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Tagaq
Tanya Tagaq (BFA) (born Tanya Tagaq Gillis and sometimes credited as Tagaq) is an Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Ikaluktuutiak), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. After attending school in Cambridge Bay, at age 15, she went to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to attend high school where she first began to practice throat singing. She later studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and while there developed her own solo form of Inuit throat singing, which is normally done by two women.
Although she has become a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on the Rocks in 2005, she is best known both in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Björk, including concert tours and the 2004 album Medúlla. She has also performed with the Kronos Quartet and Shooglenifty and featured on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
In 2005, her CD entitled Sinaa (Inuktitut for "edge") was nominated for five awards at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. At the ceremony on 25 October 2005, the CD won awards for Best Producer/Engineer, Best Album Design and Tagaq herself won the Best Female Artist award.
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Tanya Tagaq
Tanya Tagaq (BFA) (born Tanya Tagaq Gillis and sometimes credited as Tagaq) is an Inuk throat singer from Cambridge Bay (Ikaluktuutiak), Nunavut, Canada, on the south coast of Victoria Island. After attending school in Cambridge Bay, at age 15, she went to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to attend high school where she first began to practice throat singing. She later studied visual arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and while there developed her own solo form of Inuit throat singing, which is normally done by two women.
Although she has become a popular performer at Canadian folk festivals, such as Folk on the Rocks in 2005, she is best known both in Canada and internationally for her collaborations with Björk, including concert tours and the 2004 album Medúlla. She has also performed with the Kronos Quartet and Shooglenifty and featured on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
In 2005, her CD entitled Sinaa (Inuktitut for "edge") was nominated for five awards at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards. At the ceremony on 25 October 2005, the CD won awards for Best Producer/Engineer, Best Album Design and Tagaq herself won the Best Female Artist award.
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Thom Yorke
Thomas "Thom" Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician and singer-songwriter who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the rock band Radiohead. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions). In July 2006, he released his debut solo album, The Eraser.
Yorke has been cited among the most influential figures in the music industry; in 2002, Q Magazine named Yorke the 6th most powerful figure in music, and Radiohead were ranked #73 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2005. Yorke has also been cited among the greatest singers in popular music; in 2005, a poll organised by Blender and MTV2 saw Yorke voted the 18th greatest singer of all time, and in 2008, he was ranked 66th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" list.
Yorke was born on 7 October 1968, in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. At birth, his left eye was fixed shut; the doctors determined that the eye was paralyzed and that the condition was permanent. Yorke's parents took him to an eye specialist, who suggested a muscle graft. Yorke underwent five eye operations before he was six years old. Yorke's father, a chemical equipment salesman, was hired by a firm in Scotland shortly after his son's birth and the family lived there until Yorke was seven. During this time Yorke had to wear a patch over his eye. He has stated that the last surgery was "botched", giving him a drooping eyelid.
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Timbaland
Timothy Zachery Mosley (born March 10, 1972) better known by his stage name Timbaland, is an American record producer, songwriter and rapper. Timbaland's first full credit production work was in 1996 on Ginuwine...the Bachelor for R&B singer Ginuwine. After further work on Aaliyah's 1996 album One in a Million and Missy Elliott's 1997 album Supa Dupa Fly, Timbaland became a prominent producer for R&B and hip-hop artists. As a rapper he initially released several albums with fellow rapper Magoo, but later released his debut solo album Tim's Bio in 1998. In 2007, Timbaland released the first album in his Shock Value series, Timbaland Presents: Shock Value. Then In 2009 Timbaland Presents: Shock Value II. It is expected that Timbaland will release Timbaland Presents: Shock Value III in June 2012.
Timothy Zachery Mosley was born on March 10, 1972 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he was raised. He graduated from Salem High School. During his time as a DJ, he was known as "DJ Tim" or "DJ Timmy Tim". His brother, Sebastian, is nine years younger. Timbaland began making hip hop backing tracks on a Casio keyboard. While attending high school, he began a long-term collaboration with rapper Melvin Barcliff, who performed under the name of Magoo. The teenaged Mosley also joined the production ensemble S.B.I. (which stood for surrounded by idiots) which also featured Neptunes producer Pharrell. Mosley was also high school friends with Terrence and Gene Thorton, who would go on to be known as Pusha T and Malice of the rap group Clipse. In 1986, when Timbaland was 15 years old, he was shot while working a part time job at his local Red Lobster and was partially paralyzed for nine months. During this time, he began to learn how to DJ using his left hand.
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Toumani Diabate
Toumani Diabaté (born August 10, 1965) is a Malian kora player. In addition to performing the traditional music of Mali, he has also been involved in cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styles.
Diabaté comes from a long family tradition of kora players including his father Sidiki Diabaté, who recorded the first ever kora album in 1970. His family's oral tradition tells of 71 generations of musicians preceding him in a patrilineal line. His cousin Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora player to come from a Griot family.
In 1987, Diabate made his first appearance on an album in the UK, on Ba Togoma, an album featuring his father's ensemble. In 1988 Diabaté released his first album in the West, a solo album entitled Kaira, recorded in one afternoon in London and produced by Lucy Duran.
In addition to performing Malian traditional music, Diabaté has also performed and recorded in cross-cultural settings. He has collaborated with flamenco group Ketama, forming a combined group known as Songhai and releasing two recordings: Songhai I and Songhai II. In 2006, Diabaté collaborated with American blues musician Taj Mahal on the release Kulanjan. "MALIcool" is a collaboration with American jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd. He also collaborated with the Icelandic popular musician Björk on her 2007 album Volta.
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Tricky
Tricky (born Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, 27 January 1968) is an Englishmusician and actor. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesang lyrical style. Culturally, Tricky blends different styles, particularly in his musical fusion of rock and hip hop, high art and pop culture. His debut album Maxinquaye was nominated for the Mercury Prize and voted Album of the Year by NME Magazine.
Tricky was born in Knowle West, Bristol, England to a Jamaican father and a mixed-race Ghanaian-English mother. His father left the family before he was born and his mother, Maxine Quaye, committed suicide when he was only four. He named his solo album after her - Maxinquaye - and once said that though he hardly knew her, he feels like she's speaking through him with his words.
He spent his youth in the care of his grandmother, who often let him watch old horror movies instead of going to school. At 15 he began to write lyrics ("I like to rock, I like to dance, I like pretty girls taking down their pants" MixMag 1996).[citation needed] At 17, he spent some time in prison because he bought forged £50 notes from a friend, who later informed the police. In an interview, Tricky said: "Prison was really good. I'm never going back".
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Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev PAR (Russian: Валерий Абисалович Гергиев, Ossetic: Гергиты Абисалы фырт Валери/Gergity Abisaly Fyrt Valeri; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and artistic director of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
Gergiev, born in Moscow, is the son of Tamara Tatarkanovna and Abisal Zaurbekovich. He and his siblings were raised in Vladikavkaz in their native North Ossetia in the Caucasus. He began piano at secondary school, before going on to study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in Leningrad from 1972 to 1977. His principal conducting teacher was Prof. Ilya Musin (Илья Мусин), one of the greatest conductor-makers in Russian musical history. His sister, Larissa Gergieva, is a pianist and director of the Mariinsky's singers' academy.
In 1978, he became assistant conductor at the Kirov Opera, now the Mariinsky Opera, under Yuri Temirkanov, where he made his debut conducting Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace. He was chief conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra from 1981 until 1985 – the year he made his debut in the United Kingdom, along with pianist Evgeny Kissin, and violinists Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin, at The Lichfield Festival.
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Witold Lutosławski
Witold Lutosławski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvitɔld lutɔsˈwafski]; January 25, 1913 – February 7, 1994) was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. He earned many international awards and prizes, including the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.
During his youth, Lutosławski studied piano and composition in Warsaw. His early works were influenced by Polish folk music. His style demonstrates a wide range of rich atmospheric textures. He began to develop his own characteristic composition techniques in the late 1950s. His music from this period onwards incorporates his own methods of building harmonies from small groups of musical intervals. It also uses aleatoric processes, in which the rhythmic coordination of parts is subject to an element of chance. His compositions (of which he was a notable conductor) include four symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra, a string quartet, several instrumental concertos and orchestral song cycles.
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Xinhua
The Xinhua News Agency (simplified Chinese: 新华通讯社; traditional Chinese: 新華通訊社; pinyin: Xīnhuá tōngxùnshè, IPA: [ɕínxwǎ]; /ˈʃiːnhwɑː/; literally "New China News Agency") is the official press agency of the People's Republic of China and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in China. It is the largest news agency in China, ahead of the China News Service. Xinhua is subordinate to the State Council and reports to the Communist Party of China's Publicity and Public Information Departments. Xinhua's headquarters complex, the "pencil building", is at No. 57 Xuanwumenxi Street, Beijing. Its website Xinhua.org or Xinhuanet.com is headquartered on the twentieth floor of the Dacheng Plaza (大成大厦 Dàchéng Dàshà) in Xicheng District, Beijing.
Xinhua employs more than 10,000 people, operates 107 foreign bureaus worldwide, and maintains 31 bureaus in China—one for each province, plus a military bureau. As most of the newspapers in China cannot afford to station correspondents abroad, or even in every Chinese province, they rely on Xinhua feeds to fill their pages. People's Daily, for example, uses Xinhua material for approximately 25 percent of its stories. Xinhua is a publisher as well as a news agency—it owns more than 20 newspapers and a dozen magazines, and it prints in eight languages: Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic and Japanese.
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Yohana Cobo
Yohana Cobo (born Madrid, January 12, 1985) is a Spanish film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Penélope Cruz's daughter in Pedro Almodóvar's Volver.
Yohana Cobo at the Internet Movie Database
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Zeena Parkins
Zeena Parkins is a harpist active in rock music, free improvisation and jazz. Parkins plays standard harps, as well as several custom-made one-of-a kind electric harps; she also plays piano and accordion. She is currently a guest faculty member for composition courses at Mills College.
Born in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, she studied at Bard College and moved to New York City in 1984.
Her work ranges from solo performance to large ensembles. Besides standard and electric harps, her work also incorporates Foley, field recordings, analog synthesizers, samplers, oscillators and homemade instruments.
She has done several solo recordings and has also recorded or performed with Björk, John Zorn (including in Cobra performances), Elliott Sharp, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Tin Hat Trio, Jim O'Rourke, Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Lee Ranaldo, Nels Cline, Pauline Oliveros, Anthony Braxton, Matmos, Yoko Ono, Christian Marclay, Courtney Love's band Hole and others.
She has been a member of a number of experimental rock bands, including No Safety, News from Babel, Skeleton Crew and Fred Frith's review band, Keep the Dog. In March 2008 she joined Frith's Cosa Brava quintet comprising Frith, Parkins, Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, and The Norman Conquest.
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Ólöf Arnalds
Ólöf Arnalds (born 1980) is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and indie musician who has been active within the Icelandic music scene for quite some time. Apart from her own music and being a touring member of múm since 2003, she has cooperated with bands and artists such as Stórsveit Nix Noltes, Mugison, Slowblow and Skúli Sverrisson. Between 1988 and 2002 Ólöf studied violin and classical singing, and in 2002-2006 she studied composition and new media at Iceland Academy of the Arts.
In 2007, her debut album Við Og Við was released by 12 Tónar. The album features a set of songs performed mostly in a traditional troubadour style.
Ólöf's second album is Innundir skinni and was released in September 2010.
Ólöf's cousin Ólafur Arnalds is also a well known neo-classical composer.
Ólöf's debut album Við og Við was originally only released in Iceland in 2007 on 12 Tónar, however, it wasn't released until 2009 in the United Kingdom and the USA after she had signed to One Little Indian Records.
However, even before being released on both sides of the Atlantic, word of mouth – including Björk's patronage - earned Við og Við high profile plaudits in the U.S., ranking in Paste Magazine's Top 100 Albums of 2007 and eMusic's editor's Best Albums of 2008 list.
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- Ancestors
- Army Of Me
- Bad Sest Ekki Saetari Mey
- Bella Simamaer
- Bersti Og Brak
- Brnin Vid Tjrnina
- Cetacea
- Crystalline
- Dark Matter
- Earth Intruders
- Generous Palmstroke
- Gloomy Sunday
- Gratitude
- Hidden Place
- Hollow
- Holographic Entrypoint
- I Can't Help Loving That Man
- I Dansi Med Per
- I've Seen It All
- Innocence
- It's oh so quiet
- Joga
- Leaving On A Jetplane
- Lilith By Plaid
- Luktar Gvendur
- Moon
- Mother Heroic
- Mutual Core
- My Juvenile
- Nattura
- Nature Is Ancient
- Nu Flyver Anton
- Oceania
- Pagan Poetry
- Pleasure Is All Mine
- Possibly Maybe
- Sacrifice
- Scatterheart
- Show Me Forgiveness
- Sidasta Eg
- Solstice
- Sonnets Unrealities XI
- Sugarcubes - Mama
- Sun In
- Sweet Sweet Intuition
- Takk
- The Comet Song
- Thunderbolt
- Tondeleyo
- Unison
Famous quotes by Bjork:
"The media like drama so it's 'She's in Hell.' And I'm like no, I had a bad day in February and a bad day in September but a brilliant summer'."
"Talking about producer Nellee Hooper: 'He's not one for mediocre experiences."
"People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland"
"Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper."
"I find it very difficult to draw a line between what's sex and what isn't. It can be very, very sexy to drive a car, and completely unsexy to flirt with someone at a bar."
"You have my heart,"
"All Is Full of Love,"
"What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know."
"There's no map to human behaviour."
"Im a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl"
"The media like drama so it's 'She's in Hell.' And I'm like no, I had a bad day in February and a bad day in September but a brilliant summer'."
"Talking about producer Nellee Hooper: 'He's not one for mediocre experiences."
"People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland"
"Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper."
"I find it very difficult to draw a line between what's sex and what isn't. It can be very, very sexy to drive a car, and completely unsexy to flirt with someone at a bar."
"You have my heart,"
"All Is Full of Love,"
"What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know."
"There's no map to human behaviour."
"Im a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl"
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Wanderlust
- Hunter
- The Pleasure Is All Mine
- Innocence
- Army of Me
- I Miss You
- Earth Intruders
- All Is Full of Love
- Pagan Poetry
- Vertebræ by Vertebræ
- Declare Independence
- Gratitude
- Pearl
- Ambergris March
- Bath
- Hunter Vessel
- Shimenawa
- Vessel Shimenawa
- Storm
- Holographic Entrypoint
- Cetacea
- Antarctic Return
- Earth Intruders
- Wanderlust
- The Dull Flame of Desire
- Innocence
- I See Who You Are
- Vertebræ by Vertebræ
- Pneumonia
- Hope
- Declare Independence
- My Juvenile
- Gratitude
- Petrolatum
- Pearl
- Ambergris March
- Bath
- Hunter Vessel
- Shimenawa
- Vessel Shimenawa
- Storm
- Holographic Entrypoint
- Cetacea
- Antarctic Return
- Ouverture
- Frosti
- All Is Full of Love
- Harm of Will
- Undo
- Gotham Lullaby
- It's Not Up to You
- I've Seen It All
- Unisson
- You've Been Flirting Again
- Isobel
- Pagam Party
- Genereuse Palmstaske
- Army of Me
- Hyper Ballad
- Oceania (Oceania dance mix)
- Oceania (A Blender remix)
- Where Is the Line (Flute remix)
- Submarine (Out of the Deep mix)
- New World (Biodiesel mix)
- New World (M.C. remix)
- Hidden Place (Hidden Anger mix)
- Hyperballad (Bluelotus remix, Part 2)
- Hyperballad (Mount mix)
- All Is Full of Love (Introuet mix)
- I've Seen It All (GT remix)
- You Only Live Twice (James Bond Theme)
- Gloomy Sunday
- Keep Your Mouth Shut
- Lilith
- Nu Flyver Anton
- Ooops
- Oxygen
- Amphibian
- Q/Mart
- Satisfaction - Live
- Short Term Affair
- Takk
- Yoga
- Travessia
- Avignon (Aurora Instrumental)
- Our Hands
- Stressed Out (Björk Remix)
- Stressed Out (Björk Dandelions Remix)
- Björk Audio Biography
- A Sense of Wonder
- Chaos and Order
- The Punk Years
- Strange Pop
- Dissolving
- Rebirth
- Into It All
- More of Everything
- Big Crash
- Looking Around
- Here We Are
- Human Behaviour
- Venus as a Boy
- Play Dead
- Big Time Sensuality
- Violently Happy
- Army of Me
- Isobel
- It's Oh So Quiet
- Hyperballad
- Possibly Maybe
- I Miss You
- Jóga
- Bachelorette
- Hunter
- Alarm Call
- All Is Full of Love
- Hidden Place
- Pagan Poetry
- Cocoon
- It's in Our Hands
- Nature Is Ancient
- Frosti
- Overture
- All Is Full of Love
- Aurora
- Undo
- Generous Palmstroke
- An Echo, a Stain
- Hidden Place
- Cocoon
- Unison
- Harm of Will
- It's Not Up to You
- Pagan Poetry
- Possibly Maybe
- Isobel
- Hyperballad
- Human Behaviour
- Jóga
- It's in Our Hands
- Headphones
- Army of Me
- One Day
- The Modern Things
- Venus as a Boy
- You've Been Flirting Again
- Isobel
- Possibly Maybe
- I Go Humble
- Big Time Sensuality
- Hyperballad
- Enjoy
- Human Behaviour
- Anchor Song
- I Miss You
- Crying
- Violently Happy
- Hunter
- Come To Me
- All Neon Like
- You've Been Flirting Again
- Isobel
- Immature
- Play Dead
- Alarm Call
- Human Behaviour
- Bachelorette
- Hyper ballad
- Pluto
- Anchor Song
- Jóga
- Pagan Poetry (live)
- Unison (live)
- All Is Full of Love (live)
- Unravel (live)
- Aurora (live)
- Generous Palmstroke (live)
- It's Not Up to You (live)
- Hidden Place (live, Top of the Pops)
- Pagan Poetry (live, Late Show With David Letterman)
- Knifin' Around
- Avignon (demo)
- Hidden Place (Hearts & Bones mix)
- Crave (Odd Duck mix)
- Undo (Undone mix)
- Generous Palmstroke
- Verandi
- Mother Heroic
- Foot Solider
- I've Seen It All (MTV live)
- Unravel
- All Neon Like
- I've Seen It All
- Come to Me
- Who Do You Think You Are?
- The Modern Things
- Hyperballad
- Like Someone in Love
- Sod Off
- 5 Years
- Why?
- Possibly Maybe
- The Anchor Song
- Jóga
- Bachelorette
- You've Been Flirting Again
- Play Dead
- Hunter
- Anyone Who Had a Heart
- Downtown
- Silent Night / It's Oh So Quiet
- Army of Me
- The Modern Things
- Human Behaviour
- Isobel
- Venus as a Boy
- Possibly Maybe
- I Go Humble
- Hyper-Ballad
- Enjoy
- I Miss You
- Crying
- It’s Oh So Quiet
- Big Time Sensuality
- Aeroplane
- I Miss You
- Ooops (maxi version)
- Play Dead (Tim Simanon orchestral mix)
- Human Behaviour (Dom T. mix)
- Stigðu Mig
- There's More to Life Than This (studio version)
- Venus as a Boy (Anglo American extension)
- I Remember You
- Big Time Sensuality (The Fluke Moulimix 1178 PM)
- Come to Me (Black Dog Productions)
- Siðasta Ég
- Glóra
- Violently Happy (Massey Other mix)
- Anchor Song (acoustic version)
- Come to Me (acoustic version)
- Human Behaviour (acoustic version)
- Violently Happy (Masters at Work 12")
- Big Time Sensuality (The Fluke Minimix)
- Big Time Sensualty (Dom T. - Big Time Club Mix)
- Big Time Sensuality (Justin Robertson - Lionrock Wigout Vox.)
- Big Time Sensuality (Morales Def Radio Mix)
- Big Time Sensuality (The Fluke Magimix) [125bpm]
- Big Time Sensuality (Justin Robertson's Prankster's Joyride)
- Big Time Sensuality (The Fluke Moulimix) [117bpm]
- Arabadrengurinn
- Búkolla
- Alta Mira
- Jóhannes Kjarval
- Fúsi hreindýr
- Himnaför
- Óliver
- Álfur út úr hól
- Músastiginn
- Bænin
- Human Behaviour
- One Day
- Venus as a Boy
- Play Dead
- Crying
- Violently Happy
- There's More to Live Than This
- Big Time Sensualitiy
- Lucky Night
- Hot Meat
- I'm Hungry
- Vitamin
- Frosti
- Overture
- All Is Full of Love
- Unravel
- Harm of Will
- It's Not Up to You
- An Echo, a Stain (feat. Tagaq)
- Generous Palmstroke
- Cocoon
- Unison
- Hidden Place (feat. Tagaq)
- Venus as a Boy
- Pagan Poetry
- You've Been Flirting Again
- Isobel (feat. Tagaq)
- Hyperballad
- Human Behaviour
- Play Dead
- Anchor Song
- Our Hands
- Overture
- Frosti
- All Is Full of Love
- Harm of Will
- Undo
- Gotham Lullaby
- It's Not Up to You
- I've Seen It All
- Unison
- You've Been Flirting Again (Icelandic)
- Isobel
- Pagan Poetry
- Generous Palmstroke
- Army of Me
- Hyperballad
- Bachelorette
- The Anchor Song (Icelandic)
- Human Behaviour
- Presentación de los Músicos
- Our Hands
- Human Behaviour
- Venus as a Boy
- The Anchor Song
- Aeroplane
- Play Dead
- Crying
- Violently Happy
- There's More to Life Than This
- Big Time Sensuality
- Hunter
- You've Been Flirting Again (Icelandic)
- Isobel
- All Neon Like
- Possibly Maybe
- Immature
- Come to Me
- After Five Years
- Venus as a Boy
- Bachelorette
- Human Behaviour
- Violently Happy
- Hyperballad
- Pluto
- Jóga
- Play Dead
- Army of Me (Aba All-Stars mix)
- Isobel (Deodato mix)
- You've Been Flirting Again (Icelandic mix)
- Hyperballad (Over the Edge mix)
- Sweet Sweet Intuition (non album track)
- Play Dead (Tim Simenon 12" remix)
- Human Behaviour (Bassheads edit)
- Big Time Sensuality (J. Robertson Lionrock Wigout vox)
- Come to Me (Sabres of Paradise)
- The Anchor Song (Black Dog mix)
- One Day (Springs Eternal mix 105BPM)
- Violently Happy (vox dub)
- Zeena Harp Solo
- Unravel
- All Is Full of Love
- Frosti / Aurora
- Gotham Lullaby
- Undo
- Pagan Poetry
- Generous Palmstroke
- Possibly Maybe
- Cocoon
- Venus as a Boy
- Hyperballad
- The Anchor Song
- Our Hands
- You've Been Flirting Again (Icelandic version)
- Isobel (demo)
- Human Behaviour (demo)
- Bachelorette (demo)
- Jóga (demo)
- Pluto (demo)
- Bachelorette (live MTV 1998)
- Jóga (live MTV 1998)
- Bachelorette (live NPA 1998)
- Hyperballad (live MTV 1997)
- I Go Humble (LFO instrumental mix)
- Unravel (demo)
- 5 Years (demo)
- Jóga (demo)
- Visur Vatnsenda-Rósu
- Hunter
- You've Been Flirting Again
- Isobel
- Immature
- I Go Humble
- Venus as a Boy
- Bachelorette
- Hyper'Ballad
- Human Behaviour
- Alarm Call
- Violently Happy
- Pluto
- Jóga
- Play Dead
- Bachelorette
- Jóga
- Violently Happy
- Big Time Sensuality
- Hyperballad
- It's Oh So Quiet
- I Miss You
- Human Behaviour
- Army of Me
- Venus as a Boy
- Isobel
- Jóga
- Bachelorette
- Play Dead
- I Miss You (Dobie Rub, Part 1: Sunshine mix)
- Hyperballad (Brodsky Quartet version)
- Isobel (Deodato mix)
- You've Been Flirting Again (Flirt Is a Promise mix)
- Human Behaviour
- Atlantic
- One Day
- Venus as a Boy
- Come to Me
- Aeroplane
- Play Dead
- Crying
- Violently Happy
- There's More to Live Than This
- Big Time Sensuality
- Army of Me
- Modern Things
- Human Behavior
- Atlantic
- One Day
- Come to Me
- The Anchor Song
- Pagan Poetry
- Hunter
- Desired Constellation
- Cocoon
- Unravel
- Heirloom
- Jóga
- An Echo, a Stain
- Nameless
- Where Is the Line
- Hyper-Ballad
- It's in Our Hands (Spt mix)
- Bachelorette
- Pluto
- Generous Palmstroke
- Army of Me
- Hunter
- Pagan Poetry
- Jóga
- Generous Palmstroke
- Cocoon
- Heirloom
- Desired Constellation
- Unravel
- Nameless
- An Echo, a Stain
- Where Is the Line?
- Hyper-Ballad
- It's in Our Hands (SPT mix)
- Bachelorette
- Pluto Encore
- Human Behaviour
- Army of Me
- Human Behavior
- Venus as a Boy
- Hyper-Ballad
- In Time (Enjoy)
- Violently Happy
- Stigðu Mig
- Anchor Song (Black Dog mix)
- I Remember You
- Sídasta Ég
- Glóra (instrumental)
- Come to Me (Black Dog mix)
- Hyper-Ballad (Dave Morales classic mix)
- Ur Tchun Tan Tse Qi
- Spondee
- Sun on 5 at 152
- For Felix (And All the Rats)
- Stupid Fambaloo (One Word Balloons)
- Musicbox Intro
- Overture
- All Is Full of Love
- Harm of Will
- Undo
- It's Not Up to You
- Hidden Place
- Cocoon
- Unison
- Human Behaviour
- The Harbour
- One Day
- Venus as a Boy
- Come to Me
- The Anchor Song
- Aeroplane
- Play Dead
- Crying
- Violently Happy
- There's More to Life Than This
- Modern Things
- Come to Me
- The Anchor
- Satisfaction
- Big Time Sensuality
- Frosti
- Overture
- All Is Full of Love
- Aurora
- It's Not Up to You
- An Echo a Stain
- Pagan Poetry
- Cocoon
- Unison
- Unravel
- Frosti / Aurora
- All Is Full of Love
- Undo
- Generous Palmstroke
- Pagan Poetry
- Possibly Maybe
- Cocoon
- Isobel
- Hidden Place
- Intro
- Visur Vatnsenda-Rósu
- Hunter
- Come to Me
- All Neon Like
- You've Been Flirting Again (Icelandic version)
- Isobel
- Immature
- Possibly Maybe
- Venus as a Boy
- I Go Humble
- 5 Years
- Human Behaviour
- Bachelorette
- Hyperballad
- Violently Happy
- Pluto
- You've Been Flirting Again (icelandic)
- Isobel
- Human Behaviour
- Bachelorette
- Jóga
- Pluto
- I Miss You (TFI Friday)
- Bachelorette (Later With Jools Holland)
- Hunter (Later With Jools Holland)
- Jóga (Later With Jools Holland)
- Jóga (TFI Friday)
- Headphones
- Army of Me
- One Day
- The Modern Things
- Venus as a Boy
- You've Been Flirting Again
- Isobel
- Possibly Maybe
- I Go Humble
- Big Time Sensuality
- Hyperballad
- Enjoy
- Human Behaviour
- Anchor Song
- I Miss You
- Crying
- Violently Happy
- Coda
- Hunter
- Come To Me
- All Neon Like
- You've Been Flirting Again
- Isobel
- Immature
- Play Dead
- Alarm Call
- Human Behaviour
- Bachelorette
- Hyperballad
- Pluto
- Anchor Song
- Jóga
- Coda
- Headphones
- Hunter
- You've Been Flirting Again (Icelandic)
- Isobel
- All Neon Like
- Possibly Maybe
- Immature
- Come to Me
- 5 Years
- Venus as a Boy
- Bachelorette
- Human Behaviour
- Violently Happy
- Hyper-Ballad
- Pluto
- Jóga
- Play Dead
- Human Behaviour
- One Day
- Venus as a Boy
- Play Dead
- Crying
- Violently Happy
- There's More to Life Than This
- Big Time Sensuality
- Lucky Night
- Hot Meat
- I'm Hungry
- Vitamin
- Human Behavior
- The Harbour
- One Day
- Venus as a Boy
- Come to Me
- Aeroplane
- Play Dead
- Crying
- Violently Happy
- There's More to Life Than This
- Big Time Sensuality
- If You Complain Once More
- Modern Things
- Human Behavior
- The Harbour
- One Day
- Come to Me
- The Anchor Song
- Human Behaviour
- The Harbour
- One Day
- Venus as a Boy
- Come to Me
- The Anchor Song
- Play Dead
- Crying
- Violently Happy
- There's More to Life Than This
- Big Time Sensuality
- If You Complain Once More
- Play Dead
- Sperglar (march 1983 with Tappi Tikarrass)
- Ammæli (1986 SYKURMOLARNIR) (Sugarcubes)
- Köttur (1986 SYKURMOLARNIR) (Sugarcubes)
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björk - big time sensuality
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- Duration: 4:54
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Big Time Sensuality Directed by Stéphane Sednaoui. Written by Björk/Nellee Hooper. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/ Warner Chappell Music Ltd. ® 1993 One Little Indian Records Ltd.
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Big Time Sensuality Directed by Stéphane Sednaoui. Written by Björk/Nellee Hooper. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/ Warner Chappell Music Ltd. ® 1993 One Little Indian Records Ltd.
björk: moon
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- Duration: 5:47
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
download the app: bitly.com written by björk and damian taylor. directed, produced and art directed by björk, inez and vinoodh, m/m paris and james merry. moon app developed by max weisel published by universal music publishing ltd. ® 2011 björk overseas ltd/one little indian records ltd. to buy moon: bit.ly to buy moon app from the app store: bit.ly to buy biophilia: www.bjork.com. to buy north america www.nonesuch.com
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download the app: bitly.com written by björk and damian taylor. directed, produced and art directed by björk, inez and vinoodh, m/m paris and james merry. moon app developed by max weisel published by universal music publishing ltd. ® 2011 björk overseas ltd/one little indian records ltd. to buy moon: bit.ly to buy moon app from the app store: bit.ly to buy biophilia: www.bjork.com. to buy north america www.nonesuch.com
- published: 23 Sep 2011
- views: 1596884
- author: bjorkdotcom
björk - it's oh so quiet
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- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
It's Oh So Quiet Directed by Spike Jonze. Written by Hans Iang/Bert Reisfeld. Published by Peer Music (UK) Ltd. ® 1995 BjörkOverseas Ltd/One Little Indian Records Ltd.
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It's Oh So Quiet Directed by Spike Jonze. Written by Hans Iang/Bert Reisfeld. Published by Peer Music (UK) Ltd. ® 1995 BjörkOverseas Ltd/One Little Indian Records Ltd.
- published: 01 Jul 2007
- views: 2363932
- author: bjorkdotcom
Björk - All is Full of Love (Official Music Video)
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- Duration: 4:09
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Directed by Chris Cunningham. Written by Björk. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/Famous Music. ® 1999 Björk Overseas Ltd/One Little Indian Ltd.
http://wn.com/Björk_All_is_Full_of_Love_Official_Music_Video
Directed by Chris Cunningham. Written by Björk. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/Famous Music. ® 1999 Björk Overseas Ltd/One Little Indian Ltd.
- published: 11 Aug 2010
- views: 642722
- author: BjorkTv
OFFICIAL Bjӧrk - Mutual Core - Art + Music - MOCAtv
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- Duration: 5:28
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
"Mutual Core" director Andrew Thomas Huang will answer the best questions we receive from viewers in a video posted next week on MOCAtv. Do you have a question for him? How the video was made, working with Bjork, where do you find the right kind of sand in Iceland? Let us know in the comments! Bjӧrk - "Mutual Core" Official Music Video Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang www.andrewthomashuang.com Reykjavik Unit Producer: Árni Björn Helgason Director of Photography: August Jakobsson Production Designer: Gus Olafsson Hair & Makeup Artist: Frida Maria Hardardottir Los Angeles Unit: Director of Photography: Laura Merians Production Designer: Hugh Zeigler VFX Executive Producer: David Lyons Lead CG Supervisor: Michael Ranger Lead Compositor: Lindsey Fry FX Technical Director: Nico Sugleris Director's Rep: LARK Creative Like MOCA on Facebook: bit.ly Follow MOCA on Twitter: bit.ly +1 MOCA on Google+: bit.ly
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"Mutual Core" director Andrew Thomas Huang will answer the best questions we receive from viewers in a video posted next week on MOCAtv. Do you have a question for him? How the video was made, working with Bjork, where do you find the right kind of sand in Iceland? Let us know in the comments! Bjӧrk - "Mutual Core" Official Music Video Directed by Andrew Thomas Huang www.andrewthomashuang.com Reykjavik Unit Producer: Árni Björn Helgason Director of Photography: August Jakobsson Production Designer: Gus Olafsson Hair & Makeup Artist: Frida Maria Hardardottir Los Angeles Unit: Director of Photography: Laura Merians Production Designer: Hugh Zeigler VFX Executive Producer: David Lyons Lead CG Supervisor: Michael Ranger Lead Compositor: Lindsey Fry FX Technical Director: Nico Sugleris Director's Rep: LARK Creative Like MOCA on Facebook: bit.ly Follow MOCA on Twitter: bit.ly +1 MOCA on Google+: bit.ly
- published: 13 Nov 2012
- views: 1039587
- author: MOCATV
Björk - Joga
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- Duration: 3:14
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Official video Directed by Michel Gondry, 1997 check out Michel Gondry's site: www.michelgondry.com
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Official video Directed by Michel Gondry, 1997 check out Michel Gondry's site: www.michelgondry.com
- published: 27 Jun 2008
- views: 937028
- author: Holom Balam
bjork - bachelorette
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- Duration: 5:25
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
bjork - bachelorette copyright @ WMG 1997.
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It's, Oh, So Quiet Official Video with Lyrics on Screen
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- Duration: 4:06
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
This is sing-a-long version of the song "It's, Oh, So Quiet". I love this song, I think it's so cool!! Not the best song ever, but close =P =P. I haven't uploaded any videos cause it's been in Xmas holidays and I had SO MANY works to deliver in the begining of classes, that I didn't had time. But now, I'll keep my promise and upload at least once a week, so stay tunned!! Comment&Rate;⋐, please!!! Leave a comment or a message for resquest... Kiss *Mariana DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN THE MUSIC OR THE VIDEO USED TO MAKE THIS SING-ALONG, THEY BELONG TO THEIR MUSIC AND VIDEO COMPANY, BUT I TAKE THE CREDIT FOR THE SING-ALONG
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This is sing-a-long version of the song "It's, Oh, So Quiet". I love this song, I think it's so cool!! Not the best song ever, but close =P =P. I haven't uploaded any videos cause it's been in Xmas holidays and I had SO MANY works to deliver in the begining of classes, that I didn't had time. But now, I'll keep my promise and upload at least once a week, so stay tunned!! Comment&Rate;⋐, please!!! Leave a comment or a message for resquest... Kiss *Mariana DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN THE MUSIC OR THE VIDEO USED TO MAKE THIS SING-ALONG, THEY BELONG TO THEIR MUSIC AND VIDEO COMPANY, BUT I TAKE THE CREDIT FOR THE SING-ALONG
- published: 12 Jan 2009
- views: 3236959
- author: joan1234567890
Björk "Who Is It"
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- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Björk's great music video for "Who Is It" off of her 2004 album Medúlla. It's one of my favorites by her;)
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Björk's great music video for "Who Is It" off of her 2004 album Medúlla. It's one of my favorites by her;)
- published: 25 Mar 2006
- views: 3968876
- author: iammusic
björk - venus as a boy
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- Duration: 4:45
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Venus As A Boy Directed by Sophie Muller Written by Björk. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd ® 1993 One Little Indian Records Ltd.
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Venus As A Boy Directed by Sophie Muller Written by Björk. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd ® 1993 One Little Indian Records Ltd.
- published: 01 Jul 2007
- views: 534635
- author: bjorkdotcom
björk - hyperballad
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:02
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Hyperballad Directed by Michel Gondry. Written by Björk. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd ® 1996 BjörkOverseas Ltd/One Little Indian Records Ltd.
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Hyperballad Directed by Michel Gondry. Written by Björk. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd ® 1996 BjörkOverseas Ltd/One Little Indian Records Ltd.
- published: 01 Jul 2007
- views: 1614656
- author: bjorkdotcom
Björk - Crystalline (Official Music Video)
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- Duration: 4:06
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Directed by Michel Gondry. Written by Björk. Producers: Raffi Adlan and Joel Kretschman Animation Director: Peter Sluszka 2011. Biophilia out September 27th, 2011.
http://wn.com/Björk_Crystalline_Official_Music_Video
Directed by Michel Gondry. Written by Björk. Producers: Raffi Adlan and Joel Kretschman Animation Director: Peter Sluszka 2011. Biophilia out September 27th, 2011.
- published: 06 Aug 2011
- views: 603555
- author: BjorkTv
Björk talking about her TV
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- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
that video
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Bjork - Human Behaviour
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- Duration: 4:25
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Human Behaviour
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Bjork - Play dead
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- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Off the album Debut
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Björk - Violently Happy (Official Music Video)
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- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Written by Björk/Nellee Hooper. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/ Warner Chappell Music Ltd. ® 1994 One Little Indian Records Ltd.
http://wn.com/Björk_Violently_Happy_Official_Music_Video
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. Written by Björk/Nellee Hooper. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/ Warner Chappell Music Ltd. ® 1994 One Little Indian Records Ltd.
- published: 08 Aug 2010
- views: 262083
- author: BjorkTv
Bjork - Violently Happy
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- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Bjorks "Violently Happy" video.
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Björk - I Miss You (Official Music Video)
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- Duration: 4:10
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Directed by John Kricfalusi. Written by Björk/Howie Bernstein. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/ Sony Music Publishing Ltd. ® 1996 BjörkOverseas Ltd/One Little Indian Records Ltd.
http://wn.com/Björk_I_Miss_You_Official_Music_Video
Directed by John Kricfalusi. Written by Björk/Howie Bernstein. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/ Sony Music Publishing Ltd. ® 1996 BjörkOverseas Ltd/One Little Indian Records Ltd.
- published: 08 Aug 2010
- views: 932037
- author: BjorkTv
Björk - Human Behavior (Official Music Video)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:27
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Video directed by Michel Gondry. Written by Björk/Nellee Hooper. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/ Warner Chappell Music Ltd. ® 1993 One Little Indian Records Ltd.
http://wn.com/Björk_Human_Behavior_Official_Music_Video
Video directed by Michel Gondry. Written by Björk/Nellee Hooper. Published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd/ Warner Chappell Music Ltd. ® 1993 One Little Indian Records Ltd.
- published: 08 Aug 2010
- views: 454046
- author: BjorkTv
Gloomy Sunday
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- Duration: 5:20
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
The Hungarian Suicide Song Bjork's version (with lyrics)
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The Hungarian Suicide Song Bjork's version (with lyrics)
- published: 02 Dec 2007
- views: 1802084
- author: scarlettlestrange
BJORK live HYPERBALLAD
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- Duration: 5:12
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
http://wn.com/BJORK_live_HYPERBALLAD
we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
- published: 16 Feb 2008
- views: 984656
- author: CapitanJet
![Björk - It's Oh So Quiet - [HD Surrounded]](http://web.archive.org./web/20121224174608im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BF9TjbdJyUE/default.jpg "Björk - It's Oh So Quiet - [HD Surrounded]")
Björk - It's Oh So Quiet - [HD Surrounded]
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- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Post - 1995 - 3:59 - It's Oh So Quiet - 1.78:1 + 16.9 Aspect Ratio. Surrounded 5.1 Avanced ACC-M4A Apple Lossless Audio Aspect Ratio. HD 1080p Aspect Ratio. Written By Hans Lang, + Bert Reisfeld. Directed By Spike Jonze. Support Björk, By Buying Her Official Studio Recordings, + Attending Her Live Concerts, I Acknowledge That I Don't Own The Copyright, No Copyright Infringement Intended, For Nonprofit Educational Purposes Only. Credit Goes To It's Respective Owners. Björk Overseas Ltd. All Rights ® Reserved © One Little Indian Records.
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Post - 1995 - 3:59 - It's Oh So Quiet - 1.78:1 + 16.9 Aspect Ratio. Surrounded 5.1 Avanced ACC-M4A Apple Lossless Audio Aspect Ratio. HD 1080p Aspect Ratio. Written By Hans Lang, + Bert Reisfeld. Directed By Spike Jonze. Support Björk, By Buying Her Official Studio Recordings, + Attending Her Live Concerts, I Acknowledge That I Don't Own The Copyright, No Copyright Infringement Intended, For Nonprofit Educational Purposes Only. Credit Goes To It's Respective Owners. Björk Overseas Ltd. All Rights ® Reserved © One Little Indian Records.
- published: 03 May 2012
- views: 198133
- author: Björk Volumen
I've Seen It All (live at the Oscars)
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- Duration: 3:03
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Bjork singing "I've Seen It All live at the Oscars with the famous Swan dress.
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Bjork singing "I've Seen It All live at the Oscars with the famous Swan dress.
- published: 31 Dec 2007
- views: 171545
- author: archeangelo
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Bjork live in Glastonbury Festival 2007 live HD concert video
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- Duration: 58:40
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
www.concertsvideos.com All the best quality full length concert videos in one place. Follow us on Facebook https Bjork live in Glastonbury Festival 2007 The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, composer, music producer, and occasional actress, whose work includes seven English solo albums and two film soundtracks. She is known for including elements of rock, jazz, electronic, classical, industrial, folk and trip-hop music in her work. Her voice has also been acclaimed for its distinctive qualities. She is also known for her eccentric costumes and music videos. Her singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army Of Me" and "Hyperballad" all charted in the UK Top 10. Her record label, One Little Indian, reported in 2003 that she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. She has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards (including one for acting). For her performance in Dancer in the Dark, Björk won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. She was ranked #36 on VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll" and #8 on MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music". Her most recent album, Volta, was released ...
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www.concertsvideos.com All the best quality full length concert videos in one place. Follow us on Facebook https Bjork live in Glastonbury Festival 2007 The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, composer, music producer, and occasional actress, whose work includes seven English solo albums and two film soundtracks. She is known for including elements of rock, jazz, electronic, classical, industrial, folk and trip-hop music in her work. Her voice has also been acclaimed for its distinctive qualities. She is also known for her eccentric costumes and music videos. Her singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army Of Me" and "Hyperballad" all charted in the UK Top 10. Her record label, One Little Indian, reported in 2003 that she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. She has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards (including one for acting). For her performance in Dancer in the Dark, Björk won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. She was ranked #36 on VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll" and #8 on MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music". Her most recent album, Volta, was released ...
- published: 10 Dec 2011
- views: 10478
- author: gocvel
Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (amazing live performance)
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- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Bjork live in New York - All is Full Of Love
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Bjork live in New York - All is Full Of Love
- published: 25 Jan 2008
- views: 715799
- author: JamieCleaton1
BJORK live HYPER BALLAD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:52
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
http://wn.com/BJORK_live_HYPER_BALLAD
we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
- published: 19 Apr 2008
- views: 224076
- author: CapitanJet
Bjork Hyperballad Live (Jools Holland 01.11.96)
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- Duration: 5:31
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Bjork Live Hyperballad Live (Jools Holland 01.11.96) Lyrics we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
http://wn.com/Bjork_Hyperballad_Live_Jools_Holland_011196
Bjork Live Hyperballad Live (Jools Holland 01.11.96) Lyrics we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
- published: 05 Apr 2008
- views: 398814
- author: maskuk
Björk - Live at Grünspan on Music Planet 2Nite (full set and interviews - 2002)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 36:14
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Björk performing live and interviewed on Music Planet 2Nite, Grünspan, Hamburg, Germany on 4 March 2002. If you like this, support Björk by seeing her live, buying her official live and studio recordings, and visiting bjork.com. This is for nonprofit, educational purposes only. I don't own the copyright. Björk's performance of Unravel, Pagan Poetry, All is Full of Love and Cocoon was interspersed with interview segments on this ARTE/NDR coproduction directed by Bernie Apt. I edited out the intro, outro and Radio Boy's set and interview (omitted segments shown by '...'), but included all Björk's songs and interviews. Thanks to BjörkFTP for the recording. Set list ... 00:27 Unravel 04:19 Björk interview segment 1 08:41 Pagan Poetry 14:20 Björk interview segment 2 17:23 Björk in Iceland and on video (short documentary in French) 19:59 Björk interview segment 3 24:27 All is Full of Love 28:07 Björk interview segment 4 29:55 Cocoon ... 35:00 Björk interview segment 5 ...
http://wn.com/Björk_Live_at_Grünspan_on_Music_Planet_2Nite_full_set_and_interviews_2002
Björk performing live and interviewed on Music Planet 2Nite, Grünspan, Hamburg, Germany on 4 March 2002. If you like this, support Björk by seeing her live, buying her official live and studio recordings, and visiting bjork.com. This is for nonprofit, educational purposes only. I don't own the copyright. Björk's performance of Unravel, Pagan Poetry, All is Full of Love and Cocoon was interspersed with interview segments on this ARTE/NDR coproduction directed by Bernie Apt. I edited out the intro, outro and Radio Boy's set and interview (omitted segments shown by '...'), but included all Björk's songs and interviews. Thanks to BjörkFTP for the recording. Set list ... 00:27 Unravel 04:19 Björk interview segment 1 08:41 Pagan Poetry 14:20 Björk interview segment 2 17:23 Björk in Iceland and on video (short documentary in French) 19:59 Björk interview segment 3 24:27 All is Full of Love 28:07 Björk interview segment 4 29:55 Cocoon ... 35:00 Björk interview segment 5 ...
- published: 20 May 2012
- views: 35888
- author: Mollylurcher
Bjork LIVE - "It's Oh So Quiet" - '95
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
...but not for LONG! For a piece on drama, check out corneliusatloppers.wordpress.com
http://wn.com/Bjork_LIVE_It's_Oh_So_Quiet_'95
...but not for LONG! For a piece on drama, check out corneliusatloppers.wordpress.com
- published: 26 Aug 2010
- views: 203572
- author: carllafong69
BJORK live HYPERBALLAD
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:12
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
http://wn.com/BJORK_live_HYPERBALLAD
we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
- published: 16 Feb 2008
- views: 984615
- author: CapitanJet
Björk Jóga Live on Later with Jools Holland
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:39
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Björk performing Jóga on Later with Jools Holland
http://wn.com/Björk_Jóga_Live_on_Later_with_Jools_Holland
Björk performing Jóga on Later with Jools Holland
- published: 16 Apr 2008
- views: 277218
- author: Jbeckwith
Björk - Human Behaviour (Glastonbury)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:37
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Björk performing 'Human Behaviour' live at the Glastonbury Festival 1994.
http://wn.com/Björk_Human_Behaviour_Glastonbury
Björk performing 'Human Behaviour' live at the Glastonbury Festival 1994.
- published: 25 Feb 2006
- views: 656063
- author: Stjurgeon
Bjork live at royal opera house vespertine Full
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 94:38
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Lamentablemente el video no subió bien, y cada vez que he tratado de subir más videos de presentaciones completas de björk, incluída esta, youtube no lo permite, mil disculpas!! Unfortunately the video did not come up well, and every time I've tried to upload more videos björk full presentations, including this one, youtube does not allow it, so sorry!!
http://wn.com/Bjork_live_at_royal_opera_house_vespertine_Full
Lamentablemente el video no subió bien, y cada vez que he tratado de subir más videos de presentaciones completas de björk, incluída esta, youtube no lo permite, mil disculpas!! Unfortunately the video did not come up well, and every time I've tried to upload more videos björk full presentations, including this one, youtube does not allow it, so sorry!!
- published: 30 Nov 2011
- views: 38571
- author: Jimena Cáceres
Björk - Live at the W Festiwal, Sopot, Poland, 12 July 2003
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 39:07
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Björk recorded live at the W Festiwal, Sopot, Poland on 12 July 2003. If you like this, support Björk by buying her official live and studio recordings. I don't own the copyright. This is for nonprofit, educational purposes only. Set List: 00:03 All is Full of Love 03:50 Desired Constellation 08:28 Heirloom 13:40 An Echo, a Stain 17:42 Bachelorette 22:57 Hyperballad 27:19 It's in Our Hands 31:15 Pluto 34:38 Generous Palmstroke
http://wn.com/Björk_Live_at_the_W_Festiwal,_Sopot,_Poland,_12_July_2003
Björk recorded live at the W Festiwal, Sopot, Poland on 12 July 2003. If you like this, support Björk by buying her official live and studio recordings. I don't own the copyright. This is for nonprofit, educational purposes only. Set List: 00:03 All is Full of Love 03:50 Desired Constellation 08:28 Heirloom 13:40 An Echo, a Stain 17:42 Bachelorette 22:57 Hyperballad 27:19 It's in Our Hands 31:15 Pluto 34:38 Generous Palmstroke
- published: 28 Feb 2012
- views: 20262
- author: Mollylurcher
"Bachelorette"--Björk (LIVE)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:31
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Björk performing "Bachlorette" live on MTV's "Fashion Rocks!" showcasing Alexander McQueen's collection of outfits.
http://wn.com/Bachelorette--Björk_LIVE
Björk performing "Bachlorette" live on MTV's "Fashion Rocks!" showcasing Alexander McQueen's collection of outfits.
- published: 17 Nov 2007
- views: 315212
- author: wildfun
BJORK live HUMAN BEHAVIOR
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:50
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
If you ever get close to a human and human behaviour be ready to get confused there's definitely no logic to human behaviour but yet so irresistible there is no map to human behaviour they're terribly moody then all of a sudden turn happy but, oh, to get involved in the exchange of human emotions is ever so satisfying there's no map and a compass wouldn't help at all human behaviour
http://wn.com/BJORK_live_HUMAN_BEHAVIOR
If you ever get close to a human and human behaviour be ready to get confused there's definitely no logic to human behaviour but yet so irresistible there is no map to human behaviour they're terribly moody then all of a sudden turn happy but, oh, to get involved in the exchange of human emotions is ever so satisfying there's no map and a compass wouldn't help at all human behaviour
- published: 22 Feb 2008
- views: 173214
- author: CapitanJet
Bjork ~ Who Is It? (Live in Paris ~ from Voltaic) (feat. Tenori-On)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:03
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Taken from Voltaic 4 disc set out now on One Little Indian Records. Recorded at Olympia Paris on June 25th 2008 Damian Taylor plays Tenori-on, Chris Corsano plays percussion, Mark Bell plays synths, Jonas Sen plays organ and the brass band is Wonderbrass!
http://wn.com/Bjork_~_Who_Is_It?_Live_in_Paris_~_from_Voltaic_feat_Tenori-On
Taken from Voltaic 4 disc set out now on One Little Indian Records. Recorded at Olympia Paris on June 25th 2008 Damian Taylor plays Tenori-on, Chris Corsano plays percussion, Mark Bell plays synths, Jonas Sen plays organ and the brass band is Wonderbrass!
- published: 04 May 2009
- views: 128785
- author: dayglowjoe
Bjork live in Cambrige
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 59:05
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
http://wn.com/Bjork_live_in_Cambrige
Björk - I miss you (Live 1997)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:59
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
Björk Live at Shepherds Bush Empire (1997) 15. I miss you Band: Guy Sigsworth - Keyboards, Harpsichord Leila Arab - Live Mixing Ed Handley - Keyboard, Programming Andy Turner - Keyboard, Programming Yasuhiro 'Coba' Kobayashi - Accordian Trevor Morais - Drums & Percussion
http://wn.com/Björk_I_miss_you_Live_1997
Björk Live at Shepherds Bush Empire (1997) 15. I miss you Band: Guy Sigsworth - Keyboards, Harpsichord Leila Arab - Live Mixing Ed Handley - Keyboard, Programming Andy Turner - Keyboard, Programming Yasuhiro 'Coba' Kobayashi - Accordian Trevor Morais - Drums & Percussion
- published: 10 Mar 2008
- views: 186844
- author: InsaneInvader
Björk - Hunter
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:33
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
Björk - Hunter Live in Cambridge with the Icelandic string octet Lyrics: If travel is searching and home what's been found I'm not stopping I'm going hunting I'm the hunter I'll bring back the goods but I don't know when I thought I could organise freedom how Scandinavian of me you sussed it out, didn't you? You could smell it so you left me on my own to complete the mission now I'm leaving it all behind I'm going hunting : I'm the hunter You just didn't know me
http://wn.com/Björk_Hunter
Björk - Hunter Live in Cambridge with the Icelandic string octet Lyrics: If travel is searching and home what's been found I'm not stopping I'm going hunting I'm the hunter I'll bring back the goods but I don't know when I thought I could organise freedom how Scandinavian of me you sussed it out, didn't you? You could smell it so you left me on my own to complete the mission now I'm leaving it all behind I'm going hunting : I'm the hunter You just didn't know me
- published: 29 Jul 2009
- views: 116059
- author: bram082
Possibly Maybe-bjork-live at the riverside church
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:36
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
live at the riverside church.bjork
http://wn.com/Possibly_Maybe-bjork-live_at_the_riverside_church
BJORK live JOGA
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:57
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
all the accidents that happen follow the dot coinsidense makes sense only with you you don't have to speak i feel emotional landscapes they puzzle me then the riddle gets solved and you push me up to this: ...state of emergency... ...how beatuiful to be!... ...state of emergency... ...is where i want to be... all that no-one sees you see what's inside of me every nerve that hurts you heal deep inside of me you don't have to speak - i feel emotional landscapes they puzzle me confuse then the riddle gets solved and you push me up to this: ...state of emergency... ...how beatuiful to be!... ...state of emergency... ...is where i want to be... ...state of emergency... ...state of emergency...
http://wn.com/BJORK_live_JOGA
all the accidents that happen follow the dot coinsidense makes sense only with you you don't have to speak i feel emotional landscapes they puzzle me then the riddle gets solved and you push me up to this: ...state of emergency... ...how beatuiful to be!... ...state of emergency... ...is where i want to be... all that no-one sees you see what's inside of me every nerve that hurts you heal deep inside of me you don't have to speak - i feel emotional landscapes they puzzle me confuse then the riddle gets solved and you push me up to this: ...state of emergency... ...how beatuiful to be!... ...state of emergency... ...is where i want to be... ...state of emergency... ...state of emergency...
- published: 19 Apr 2008
- views: 52487
- author: CapitanJet
Bjork - (HD)(Live)(Glastonbury 2007)(Full Concert)720p
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 57:38
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 22.06.2007 Setlist: - Intro - Earth Intruders - Venus As A Boy - Hunter - Pagan Poetry - All Is Full Of Love - Pleasure Is All Mine - Hope - Joga - Army Of Me - I Miss You - Bachelorette - Hyperballad - Declare Independence Enjoy!!!
http://wn.com/Bjork_HDLiveGlastonbury_2007Full_Concert720p
GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 22.06.2007 Setlist: - Intro - Earth Intruders - Venus As A Boy - Hunter - Pagan Poetry - All Is Full Of Love - Pleasure Is All Mine - Hope - Joga - Army Of Me - I Miss You - Bachelorette - Hyperballad - Declare Independence Enjoy!!!
- published: 20 Jun 2011
- views: 94621
- author: burtonbcell2
BJORK live UNDO
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:51
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
It's not meant to be a strife It's not meant to be a struggle uphill Oh I It's not meant to be a strife It's not meant to be a struggle uphill Oh I You're trying too hard Surrender Give yourself in You're trying too hard You're trying too hard, ah It's not meant to be a strife It's not meant to be a struggle uphill Sweetly It's not meant to be as dry To enjoy It's not meant to be a stuggle uphill Oh I It's warmer now Lean into it Unfold Unfold in a generous way Surrender It's not meant to be as dry (surrender) It's not meant (undo) to be a struggle uphill (undo) It's not meant to be as dry It's not meant to be a struggle uphill I'm praying To be In a generous mode The kindness kind The kindness kind To share Me To share me It's not meant to be as dry It's not meant to be a struggle uphill It's not meant to be as dry It's not meant to be a struggle uphill Undo Undo If you're bleeding Undo And if you're sweating Undo If you're crying, darling Undo Undo Oh I Unravel
http://wn.com/BJORK_live_UNDO
It's not meant to be a strife It's not meant to be a struggle uphill Oh I It's not meant to be a strife It's not meant to be a struggle uphill Oh I You're trying too hard Surrender Give yourself in You're trying too hard You're trying too hard, ah It's not meant to be a strife It's not meant to be a struggle uphill Sweetly It's not meant to be as dry To enjoy It's not meant to be a stuggle uphill Oh I It's warmer now Lean into it Unfold Unfold in a generous way Surrender It's not meant to be as dry (surrender) It's not meant (undo) to be a struggle uphill (undo) It's not meant to be as dry It's not meant to be a struggle uphill I'm praying To be In a generous mode The kindness kind The kindness kind To share Me To share me It's not meant to be as dry It's not meant to be a struggle uphill It's not meant to be as dry It's not meant to be a struggle uphill Undo Undo If you're bleeding Undo And if you're sweating Undo If you're crying, darling Undo Undo Oh I Unravel
- published: 18 Apr 2008
- views: 16342
- author: CapitanJet
Bjork Live Mashup mix_FULL LENGTH FOOTAGE FROM LIVE SHOWS & TV PERFORMANCES.mp4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 90:13
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
This is a compilation of live Bjork footage. All footage is from officially released dvd's. Thank you to DrGonzoACJ who put this together! Headphones 0:00 All Neon Like 2:54 Unison 7:55 Possibly Maybe 13:58 I Go Humble 19:41 One Day 23:43 Come To Me 30:01 Undo 33:46 Generous Palmstroke 39:41 Big Time Sensuality 44:04 Bachelorette 48:56 It's In Our Hands 54:10 The Modern Things 58:47 Venus As A Boy 1:02:42 Aeroplane 1:07:40 Atlantic 1:11:41 All Is Full Of Love 1:14:41 Aurora 1:18:55 So Broken 1:22:36 Pluto 1:26:52
http://wn.com/Bjork_Live_Mashup_mix_FULL_LENGTH_FOOTAGE_FROM_LIVE_SHOWS_TV_PERFORMANCESmp4
This is a compilation of live Bjork footage. All footage is from officially released dvd's. Thank you to DrGonzoACJ who put this together! Headphones 0:00 All Neon Like 2:54 Unison 7:55 Possibly Maybe 13:58 I Go Humble 19:41 One Day 23:43 Come To Me 30:01 Undo 33:46 Generous Palmstroke 39:41 Big Time Sensuality 44:04 Bachelorette 48:56 It's In Our Hands 54:10 The Modern Things 58:47 Venus As A Boy 1:02:42 Aeroplane 1:07:40 Atlantic 1:11:41 All Is Full Of Love 1:14:41 Aurora 1:18:55 So Broken 1:22:36 Pluto 1:26:52
- published: 06 Jul 2011
- views: 24473
- author: InjectTheBjork
BJORK live PAGAN POETRY
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Pedalling through The dark currents I find An accurate copy A blueprint Of the pleasure In me Swirling black lilies totally ripe A secret code carved Swirling black lilies totally ripe A secret code carved He offers A handshake Crooked Five fingers They form a pattern ...
http://wn.com/BJORK_live_PAGAN_POETRY
Pedalling through The dark currents I find An accurate copy A blueprint Of the pleasure In me Swirling black lilies totally ripe A secret code carved Swirling black lilies totally ripe A secret code carved He offers A handshake Crooked Five fingers They form a pattern ...
- published: 19 Apr 2008
- views: 41881
- author: CapitanJet
58:40
Bjork live in Glastonbury Festival 2007 live HD concert video
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published: 10 Dec 2011
author: gocvel
Bjork live in Glastonbury Festival 2007 live HD concert video
www.concertsvideos.com All the best quality full length concert videos in one place. Follow us on Facebook https Bjork live in Glastonbury Festival 2007 The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer-songwriter, composer, music producer, and occasional actress, whose work includes seven English solo albums and two film soundtracks. She is known for including elements of rock, jazz, electronic, classical, industrial, folk and trip-hop music in her work. Her voice has also been acclaimed for its distinctive qualities. She is also known for her eccentric costumes and music videos. Her singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army Of Me" and "Hyperballad" all charted in the UK Top 10. Her record label, One Little Indian, reported in 2003 that she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. She has been nominated for 13 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards (including one for acting). For her performance in Dancer in the Dark, Björk won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. She was ranked #36 on VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll" and #8 on MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music". Her most recent album, Volta, was released ...
- published: 10 Dec 2011
- views: 10478
- author: gocvel
3:48
Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (amazing live performance)
Bjork live in New York - All is Full Of Love...
published: 25 Jan 2008
author: JamieCleaton1
Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (amazing live performance)
Bjork live in New York - All is Full Of Love
- published: 25 Jan 2008
- views: 715799
- author: JamieCleaton1
4:52
BJORK live HYPER BALLAD
we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mounta...
published: 19 Apr 2008
author: CapitanJet
BJORK live HYPER BALLAD
we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
- published: 19 Apr 2008
- views: 224076
- author: CapitanJet
5:31
Bjork Hyperballad Live (Jools Holland 01.11.96)
Bjork Live Hyperballad Live (Jools Holland 01.11.96) Lyrics we live on a mountain right at...
published: 05 Apr 2008
author: maskuk
Bjork Hyperballad Live (Jools Holland 01.11.96)
Bjork Live Hyperballad Live (Jools Holland 01.11.96) Lyrics we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
- published: 05 Apr 2008
- views: 398814
- author: maskuk
36:14
Björk - Live at Grünspan on Music Planet 2Nite (full set and interviews - 2002)
Björk performing live and interviewed on Music Planet 2Nite, Grünspan, Hamburg, Germany on...
published: 20 May 2012
author: Mollylurcher
Björk - Live at Grünspan on Music Planet 2Nite (full set and interviews - 2002)
Björk performing live and interviewed on Music Planet 2Nite, Grünspan, Hamburg, Germany on 4 March 2002. If you like this, support Björk by seeing her live, buying her official live and studio recordings, and visiting bjork.com. This is for nonprofit, educational purposes only. I don't own the copyright. Björk's performance of Unravel, Pagan Poetry, All is Full of Love and Cocoon was interspersed with interview segments on this ARTE/NDR coproduction directed by Bernie Apt. I edited out the intro, outro and Radio Boy's set and interview (omitted segments shown by '...'), but included all Björk's songs and interviews. Thanks to BjörkFTP for the recording. Set list ... 00:27 Unravel 04:19 Björk interview segment 1 08:41 Pagan Poetry 14:20 Björk interview segment 2 17:23 Björk in Iceland and on video (short documentary in French) 19:59 Björk interview segment 3 24:27 All is Full of Love 28:07 Björk interview segment 4 29:55 Cocoon ... 35:00 Björk interview segment 5 ...
- published: 20 May 2012
- views: 35888
- author: Mollylurcher
3:38
Bjork LIVE - "It's Oh So Quiet" - '95
...but not for LONG! For a piece on drama, check out corneliusatloppers.wordpress.com...
published: 26 Aug 2010
author: carllafong69
Bjork LIVE - "It's Oh So Quiet" - '95
...but not for LONG! For a piece on drama, check out corneliusatloppers.wordpress.com
- published: 26 Aug 2010
- views: 203572
- author: carllafong69
5:12
BJORK live HYPERBALLAD
we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mounta...
published: 16 Feb 2008
author: CapitanJet
BJORK live HYPERBALLAD
we live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off like: car-parts, bottles and cutlery or whatever i find lying around it's become a habit a way to start the day i go through this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you it's real early morning no-one is awake i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow with my eyes 'til they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks and when it lands will my eyes be closed or open? i'll go through all this before you wake up so i can feel happier to be safe up here with you
- published: 16 Feb 2008
- views: 984615
- author: CapitanJet
4:37
Björk - Human Behaviour (Glastonbury)
Björk performing 'Human Behaviour' live at the Glastonbury Festival 1994....
published: 25 Feb 2006
author: Stjurgeon
Björk - Human Behaviour (Glastonbury)
Björk performing 'Human Behaviour' live at the Glastonbury Festival 1994.
- published: 25 Feb 2006
- views: 656063
- author: Stjurgeon
94:38
Bjork live at royal opera house vespertine Full
Lamentablemente el video no subió bien, y cada vez que he tratado de subir más videos de p...
published: 30 Nov 2011
author: Jimena Cáceres
Bjork live at royal opera house vespertine Full
Lamentablemente el video no subió bien, y cada vez que he tratado de subir más videos de presentaciones completas de björk, incluída esta, youtube no lo permite, mil disculpas!! Unfortunately the video did not come up well, and every time I've tried to upload more videos björk full presentations, including this one, youtube does not allow it, so sorry!!
- published: 30 Nov 2011
- views: 38571
- author: Jimena Cáceres
39:07
Björk - Live at the W Festiwal, Sopot, Poland, 12 July 2003
Björk recorded live at the W Festiwal, Sopot, Poland on 12 July 2003. If you like this, su...
published: 28 Feb 2012
author: Mollylurcher
Björk - Live at the W Festiwal, Sopot, Poland, 12 July 2003
Björk recorded live at the W Festiwal, Sopot, Poland on 12 July 2003. If you like this, support Björk by buying her official live and studio recordings. I don't own the copyright. This is for nonprofit, educational purposes only. Set List: 00:03 All is Full of Love 03:50 Desired Constellation 08:28 Heirloom 13:40 An Echo, a Stain 17:42 Bachelorette 22:57 Hyperballad 27:19 It's in Our Hands 31:15 Pluto 34:38 Generous Palmstroke
- published: 28 Feb 2012
- views: 20262
- author: Mollylurcher
3:31
"Bachelorette"--Björk (LIVE)
Björk performing "Bachlorette" live on MTV's "Fashion Rocks!" showcasing Alexander McQueen...
published: 17 Nov 2007
author: wildfun
"Bachelorette"--Björk (LIVE)
Björk performing "Bachlorette" live on MTV's "Fashion Rocks!" showcasing Alexander McQueen's collection of outfits.
- published: 17 Nov 2007
- views: 315212
- author: wildfun
3:50
BJORK live HUMAN BEHAVIOR
If you ever get close to a human and human behaviour be ready to get confused there's defi...
published: 22 Feb 2008
author: CapitanJet
BJORK live HUMAN BEHAVIOR
If you ever get close to a human and human behaviour be ready to get confused there's definitely no logic to human behaviour but yet so irresistible there is no map to human behaviour they're terribly moody then all of a sudden turn happy but, oh, to get involved in the exchange of human emotions is ever so satisfying there's no map and a compass wouldn't help at all human behaviour
- published: 22 Feb 2008
- views: 173214
- author: CapitanJet
4:03
Bjork ~ Who Is It? (Live in Paris ~ from Voltaic) (feat. Tenori-On)
Taken from Voltaic 4 disc set out now on One Little Indian Records. Recorded at Olympia Pa...
published: 04 May 2009
author: dayglowjoe
Bjork ~ Who Is It? (Live in Paris ~ from Voltaic) (feat. Tenori-On)
Taken from Voltaic 4 disc set out now on One Little Indian Records. Recorded at Olympia Paris on June 25th 2008 Damian Taylor plays Tenori-on, Chris Corsano plays percussion, Mark Bell plays synths, Jonas Sen plays organ and the brass band is Wonderbrass!
- published: 04 May 2009
- views: 128785
- author: dayglowjoe
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4:07
Bjork 'Innocence'
Directed by Dimitri Stankowicz...
published: 08 Dec 2010
author: Passion Pictures
Bjork 'Innocence'
Directed by Dimitri Stankowicz
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Sliver
Model: Keisha Kimball
Music: Bjork - "Army of Me"
Photo & Video: Matt Blum (www.MattB...
published: 07 Jul 2011
author: Matt Blum
Sliver
Model: Keisha Kimball
Music: Bjork - "Army of Me"
Photo & Video: Matt Blum (www.MattBlum.net)
1:56
Iceland Furry
Filming Commercials in Iceland 2008....
published: 12 Jul 2008
author: Sean Stiegemeier
Iceland Furry
Filming Commercials in Iceland 2008.
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3:59
Björk - I miss you (Live 1997)
Björk Live at Shepherds Bush Empire (1997) 15. I miss you Band: Guy Sigsworth - Keyboards,...
published: 10 Mar 2008
author: InsaneInvader
Björk - I miss you (Live 1997)
Björk Live at Shepherds Bush Empire (1997) 15. I miss you Band: Guy Sigsworth - Keyboards, Harpsichord Leila Arab - Live Mixing Ed Handley - Keyboard, Programming Andy Turner - Keyboard, Programming Yasuhiro 'Coba' Kobayashi - Accordian Trevor Morais - Drums & Percussion
- published: 10 Mar 2008
- views: 186844
- author: InsaneInvader
4:33
Björk - Hunter
Björk - Hunter Live in Cambridge with the Icelandic string octet Lyrics: If travel is sear...
published: 29 Jul 2009
author: bram082
Björk - Hunter
Björk - Hunter Live in Cambridge with the Icelandic string octet Lyrics: If travel is searching and home what's been found I'm not stopping I'm going hunting I'm the hunter I'll bring back the goods but I don't know when I thought I could organise freedom how Scandinavian of me you sussed it out, didn't you? You could smell it so you left me on my own to complete the mission now I'm leaving it all behind I'm going hunting : I'm the hunter You just didn't know me
- published: 29 Jul 2009
- views: 116059
- author: bram082
photo: AP / Aijaz Rahi
22 Dec 2012
Tweet. 0 Email. Report. Photo 1 of 18. In 2009, ELLE Magazine named Mrs Assad the most stylish woman in world politics. She is an icon of fashion in her country. Credit. Aimee Kligman. In 2009, ELLE Magazine named Mrs Assad the most stylish woman in world politics. She is an icon of fashion in her country.In 2009, ELLE Magazine named Mrs Assad the most stylish woman in world politics ... Syrians detained by the Assad regime. 13 Photos ... 10 Photos ... ....(size: 6.3Kb)
photo: AP / Virginie Nguyen Huang
23 Dec 2012
Tweet. Moscow, Dec 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Chemical weapons in Syria are under the control of the government, which has consolidated them in one or two locations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. "As of right now, the (Syrian) government is doing all it can to safeguard those weapons," he said. "We are following all leads concerning chemical weapons," Lavrov said ... "My answer is very simple. Why use us as a postman ... pm/ ... ) .. ). ... . ....(size: 3.2Kb)
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22 Dec 2012
Salman Khan's Dabangg 2 has broken the record for the biggest non-holiday opener ... "Biggest opener [holiday] #EkThaTiger 32.92 cr ... Biggest opener [non-holiday] #RowdyRathore 15.1 cr ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)
photo: AP / Altaf Qadri
23 Dec 2012
A commission will be set up to probe the gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old woman in Delhi and measures to ensure such crimes do not recur while laws will be amended to enhance punishment for rape, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said . He also appealed the thousands of protesters on the capital’s streets, demanding justice for the victim, to withdraw ... “The government is serious on the issue. ... . . ....(size: 2.4Kb)
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24 Dec 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. A deadly silence immediately followed after a bullet penetrated the calf's skull. Against my wishes, Vic had decided against either amputating its leg or contacting a veterinarian-something he reasoned would have been too expensive. The unfortunate calf had slid down into a ravine where its hind leg, which was mangled and torn, became wrapped in barbed wire ... But it was more than a bellow ... 9....(size: 6.3Kb)
Otago Daily Times
21 Dec 2012
Minuit. Last Night You Saw This Band. Minuit/Rhythm Method. 4 stars (out of 5). The fourth studio album from Kiwi electronic trio Ruth Carr, Paul Dodge and Ryan Beehre is best described as eclectic ... There are touches of darkness, too. On Warheads, Carr asks ''how shall we settle this?'' Then answers, ''with bombs''. Single download. The Love That Won't Shut Up. For those who like. Bjork. -Shane Gilchrist. Angie Stone. Rich Girl ... Single download ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
New York Magazine
20 Dec 2012
katharine hamnett, like a virgin, bumsters, dresses, brooke shields, kate moss, janet jackson, hussein chalayan, jennifer lopez, academy awards, nas, elizabeth hurley, cher, little black dress, lady gaga, fashion, versace, yves saint laurent, demi moore, mtv video music awards, comme des garcons, lil kim, viktor & rolf, elsa schiaparelli, jackie ......(size: 3.1Kb)
Skiddle
20 Dec 2012
We caught up with singer songwriter Joanna Law ahead of her live PA at the Cream Reunion to talk about her career, Space Brothers, jazz and meeting Peter Andre on Top Of The Pops. Tweet. Date published. 20th Dec 2012 ... Female vocalists… Sarah Vaughn, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Betty Carter, KD Laing, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Bjork, Karen Carpenter, Diane Reeves, Caron Wheeler, Elizabeth Fraser… the list is endless ... Date ... ....(size: 6.4Kb)
NZ Herald
19 Dec 2012
David Attenborough is enchanted by Bjork and calls her "honey". The natural history TV presenter struck up a friendship with the It's Oh So Quiet singer when they filmed a documentary together in which they explore music in nature, entitled Attenborough and Bjork ... David - who admits he can't pronounce Bjork's name properly - revealed....(size: 1.5Kb)
Sydney Morning Herald
19 Dec 2012
Mashable
18 Dec 2012
Kesha's "Die Young," the number three song on Billboard's Hot 100 weekly singles chart, is drastically losing radio airplay in the wake of Friday's Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adults. The 25-year-old singer and rapper responded to the radio news in a tweet Tuesday night. ... words cannot express. — ke$ha(@keshasuxx) December 19, 2012 ... SEE ALSO ... BONUS ... Warning ... "Cocoon" by Bjork ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
Indiewire
18 Dec 2012
. ... Read on.... Directed by George Tillman, Jr ... Precocious contemporary classical music composer Nico Muhly (who composed a great score for “The Reader” and he’s worked with Bjork, Grizzly Bear and Antony & The Johnsons among others) has written the music for the beat generation film "Kill Your Darlings" starring Daniel Radcliffe, Elisabeth Olsen, Dane DeHaan, Ben Foster, David Cross, Michael C ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)
Huffington Post
18 Dec 2012
There's the husband-and-wife architectural team behind the new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and the playwright who has probably brought more Asians to Broadway and other stages than anyone else ... Loading Slideshow. Björk ... With a website that's <a href=""http.//bjork.com/">one" of the edgiest </a>around, Björk continues to use her position to help launch new acts or mentor younger recording artists ... Like. 8k ... ....(size: 9.2Kb)
LA Weekly
17 Dec 2012
You could also go skating at any number of outdoor holiday-festooned ice rinks ... She's gained attention for her one-woman show I'm Not Myself and her wonderful impressions of Ellen DeGeneres, Sarah Silverman and Bjork, among many others ... 23, 7 p.m.; $10 ... Price....(size: 1.6Kb)
Huffington Post
16 Dec 2012
Converting runway dresses into wearable looks can be tricky sometimes (see. Kristen Stewart's sheer Erdem contraption) ... Now, we're faced with the exact same dress again -- and we're determined to make some headway ... what do you think of the Valentino dress? ... (Getty photo) Bjork, 2000 Cannes. Remember those table decorations at birthdays or 4th of July parties when you were younger? Well, that's kinda what Bjork looked like in this dress ... ....(size: 11.1Kb)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
15 Dec 2012
We thought (Romney) would be here more often,” says Democratic strategist Tanya Bjork, who ran the Obama campaigns in Wisconsin in 2008 and 2012. Bjork thinks Republicans underestimated the big turnouts Democrats would generate in Madison and Milwaukee, otherwise they would have put more effort into the state ... of target,” says Bjork....(size: 30.5Kb)
The Examiner
15 Dec 2012
When Hurricane Sandy hit the U.S. coast, it left a trail of destruction stretching for hundreds of miles and affecting at least 24 states. New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut were some of the hardest hit, and the devastation is still being experienced by so many ... SC ... It wasn't until my freshmen year of college that I was introduced to all of this incredible "alternative" music like Bjork, Tricky, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, and Aphex Twin ... ....(size: 9.1Kb)
This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Björk.
This article is about the musician. For her self-titled album, see Björk (album). For other uses, see Björk (disambiguation).
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 Björk at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April 2007. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Björk Guðmundsdóttir |
| Born | (1965-11-21) 21 November 1965 (age 46) Reykjavík, Iceland |
| Genres | Alternative rock, electronica, experimental, ethereal wave, trip hop, jazz, folk, alternative dance, avant-garde, industrial, rave, baroque pop anarcho-punk (early) |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, music composer, producer, actress, fashion model |
| Instruments | Vocals, keyboards, piano, flute, drums, piccolo, harmonica, harp, oboe |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Labels | One Little Indian, Polydor, Universal, Elektra, Atlantic, Nonesuch, Warner Bros. |
| Associated acts | The Sugarcubes, Thom Yorke, Tappi Tíkarrass, KUKL, Gling-Glo, Timbaland |
| Website | bjork.com |
Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( /ˈbjɜrk/; [ˈpjœr̥k ˈkvʏðmʏntsˌtoʊhtɪr] ( listen); born 21 November 1965), known as Björk, is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her musical style is eclectic and she has achieved recognition in rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical, and folk.[1]
Björk's 1990s singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me" and "Hyperballad" charted in the UK Top 10.[citation needed] Her record label, One Little Indian, reported that by 2003 she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide.[2] She has acquired a high level of critical acclaim.[3] She has won four BRIT Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, one MOJO Award, three UK Music Video Awards, and, in 2010, the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, in recognition for her "deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice".[4]
Björk has also been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards, one Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Dancer in the Dark.[5] She was ranked thirty-sixth in VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll",[6] eighth in MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music",[7] and sixtieth in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".[8]
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Early life[link]
Björk was born and raised in Reykjavík, Iceland. Her father is Guðmundur Gunnarsson, a union leader and electrician, and her mother is Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, an activist who protested against Kárahnjúkar, a controversial hydro-electric development in Iceland.[9]
Her musical career began when she was eleven with her study of classical piano in elementary school. One of her instructors sent a recording of Björk singing Tina Charles' song "I Love to Love" to RÚV, then the only radio station in Iceland. The recording was broadcast on radio nationally; after hearing it, a representative of the record label Fálkinn contacted Björk to offer a record contract. An album, Björk, was recorded and released in 1977.
In her teens, Björk was influenced by punk; at 14 she formed the all-girl punk band Spit and Snot, shortly followed by the jazz fusion group Exodus in 1979. In 1980 she graduated from music school. In 1981 she and bassist Jakob Magnússon formed another band called Jam-80, which later became Tappi Tíkarrass (which means "Cork the Bitch’s Ass" in Icelandic), and released an extended single, "Bítið Fast í Vítið" in the same year. Their album, Miranda, was released in 1983.
Björk collaborated with Einar Örn Benediktsson and Einar Melax from Purrkur Pillnikk, and Guðlaugur Óttarsson, Sigtryggur Baldursson, and Birgir Mogensen from Þeyr. After writing songs and rehearsing for two weeks, the new band, KUKL ("sorcery" in Icelandic), developed a sound described as Gothic rock. Björk began to show indications of her trademark singing style, which was punctuated by howls and shrieks.
KUKL toured Iceland with anarchist UK punk band Crass, and later visited the UK in a series of performances with Flux of Pink Indians. They produced two albums as a result of these collaborations: The Eye in 1984, and Holidays in Europe in 1986, both on Crass Records.
The band eventually dissolved, in part due to the closure of their label, Gramm. In mid-1986, several members of KUKL and the surrealist group Medusa got together to create the arts collective Smekkleysa (Bad Taste). They created a musical division, a band again called KUKL, but soon changed the name to The Sugarcubes.
The Sugarcubes[link]
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Main article: The Sugarcubes
The Sugarcubes' first single, "Ammæli" (meaning "Birthday" in Icelandic), became a surprise hit in the UK after being declared single of the week by Melody Maker. The Sugarcubes were immediately signed up by One Little Indian, a new label set up by Derek Birkett, the former bass player of Flux of Pink Indians. They gained a cult following in the US and UK, and calls from larger record companies began coming in. They rejected all these offers, and instead chose to have complete creative control by remaining with a friend's label. Björk is still signed to this label. The Sugarcubes also signed a distribution deal with Elektra Records in the United States, and recorded their first album, Life's Too Good, in 1988. Its release propelled them into international stardom—an unprecedented success for an Icelandic rock band. While with the Sugarcubes, Björk participated in several side projects. She recorded Gling-Gló, a collection of popular jazz and original work, with the jazz group Trio Guðmundar Ingólfssonar, released in Iceland. Björk also contributed vocals to 808 State's album ex:el, with whom she cultivated her interest in house music. She contributed vocals on the songs "Qmart" & "Ooops" which was released as a single in the UK and was later included on 808 State's "Best Of" album, 808:88:98. She also contributed vocals to the song "Falling", on the album "Island" by Current 93 and Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson.
Solo career[link]
[edit] 1992–96: Pop-dance beginnings, Debut and Post
In 1992, The Sugarcubes split up. They remain friends and are all still involved in the management of Smekkleysa/Bad Taste. Björk moved to London to pursue a solo career; she began working with producer Nellee Hooper (who had produced for Massive Attack, among others). Their partnership produced Björk's first international solo hit, "Human Behaviour", a clattering dance track based on a guitar rhythm sampled from Antonio Carlos Jobim. In most countries the song was not widely played on radio, but was widely seen on MTV, accompanied by an influential video by Oscar-winning film director Michel Gondry, who would become a frequent collaborator for Björk.[10]
Her solo debut album, Debut, was released in June 1993 to positive reviews; it was named album of the year by NME, and eventually went platinum in the United States.[11] Debut was the leap Björk made from being in numerous bands during her teens and early twenties, to her solo career. But although this was far from her real debut as a singer and musician, having released her first solo album at the age of 11, she named the album Debut to signify a start of something brand new. Debut had a mix of songs Björk had been writing since she was a teenager, as well as more recent lyrical collaborations with Hooper. Although the music was mostly dance-oriented, it was varied in instrumentation. One single from the album, "Venus As a Boy", featured a Bollywood-influenced string arrangement, Björk covered the jazz standard "Like Someone in Love" to the accompaniment of a harp, and the final track, "The Anchor Song", was sung with only a saxophone ensemble for accompaniment.
At the 1994 BRIT Awards Björk won the awards for Best International Female and Best International Newcomer.[12] The success of Debut enabled her to collaborate with other British and artists on one-off tracks. She worked with David Arnold on "Play Dead", the theme to the 1993 film The Young Americans (which appeared as a bonus track on a re-release of Debut), collaborated on two songs for Tricky's Nearly God project, appeared on a track on the 1997 album Not For Threes by Plaid, which was released on the Warp Records label, and co-wrote the song "Bedtime Story" for Madonna's 1994 album Bedtime Stories.
Post was Björk's second solo studio album. Released in June 1995, the album was produced in conjunction with Nellee Hooper, Tricky, Graham Massey of 808 State, and electronica producer Howie B. Building on the success of her previous album Debut, Björk continued to pursue different sounds, taking particular interest in dance and techno. Production by Tricky and Howie B also provided trip hop/electronica-like sounds on tracks like "Possibly Maybe" and "Enjoy". It was these producers' influence along with older friend Graham Massey, that inspired Björk to create material like the storming industrial beats of "Army of Me". Post however also included more subtle and playful moments than Debut, with deeper jazz and orchestral arrangements on some tracks and a mood of intimate contemplation toward the end.
The album was ranked number 7 in Spin's "Top 90 Albums of the 90's list, and number 75 in their "100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005" list.[13][14]Post and Homogenic were placed back to back on Pitchfork Media's "Top Albums of the '90s" list at numbers 21 and 20, respectively.[15][16] In 2003, the album was ranked number 373 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[17] Although again Bjork received more mainstream attention for her videos than her singles, Post included several UK pop hits and was eventually certified platinum in the US.[11]
Björk also contributed to the 1995 Hector Zazou collaborative album Songs from the Cold Seas, singing the traditional Icelandic song Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu.
[edit] 1997–2002: Embracing beats, strings, Homogenic and Vespertine
In 1997, the album Homogenic was released. It marked a dramatic shift from her earlier "pixie" image cultivated on the Debut and Post albums. Björk worked with producers Mark Bell of LFO and Howie B on the album, as well as Eumir Deodato; numerous remixes followed. Homogenic was her first conceptually self-contained album and is regarded as one of Björk's most experimental and extroverted works to date, with enormous beats that reflect the landscape of Iceland, most notably in the song "Jóga", which fuses lush strings with rocky electronic crunches. The album was certified gold in the US in 2001.[11]
The emotionally-charged album contains a string of music videos, several of which received airplay on MTV. The video for "Bachelorette" was directed by frequent collaborator Michel Gondry, while "All Is Full of Love" was directed by Chris Cunningham. The single "All is Full of Love" was also the first DVD single to ever be released in the US, which paved the way for other artists to include DVD video and other multimedia features with their singles.
In an interview with Spin magazine, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke called the song "Unravel" from this album his favourite song ever, claiming "I'm trying to get Radiohead to do a cover because I think it's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard." In November 2007, the band covered the song as part of a live webcast. The video can be seen on YouTube.[18]
In 2001, Björk released the album Vespertine. The album featured chamber orchestras, choirs, hushed vocals, microbeats made from household sounds, and personal, vulnerable themes. She collaborated with experimental sound manipulators Matmos, Denmark-based DJ Thomas Knak, and the experimental harpist Zeena Parkins for the album. Lyrical sources included the works of American poet E. E. Cummings, the American independent filmmaker Harmony Korine and English playwright Sarah Kane's penultimate play, Crave. To coincide with the album's release, Björk released a coffee table book of loose prose and photographs titled Björk.[19] Björk embarked on a tour of theatres and opera houses in Europe and North America in support of the album, accompanied by the musicians Matmos, Zeena Parkins and an Inuit choir, whom she had held auditions for on a trip to Greenland prior to the tour.[20] At the time Vespertine was Björk's quickest selling album ever, having sold two million copies by the end of 2001.[21]
Vespertine spawned three singles: "Hidden Place", "Pagan Poetry", and "Cocoon." MTV2 played the album's first video, "Hidden Place", which was subsequently released as a DVD single. However, the next video, for "Pagan Poetry", brought Björk to an even higher level of controversy with the channel. The song's video features graphic piercings, Björk's exposed nipples, and simulated fellatio.[22] As a result, the clip was initially rarely shown by MTV, and certain parts (for example, Björk's breasts) were censored during the rare occasions when it was played. In 2002, the clip finally enjoyed unedited American airing as part of a late night special on MTV2 entitled "Most Controversial Music Videos". The video for "Cocoon" also featured a seemingly naked Björk (actually wearing a close fitting bodysuit), this time with her nipples secreting a red thread that eventually enveloped the singer in a cocoon. The video was directed by Japanese artist Eiko Ishioka, and was not aired by MTV.
2002 saw the appearance of the CD box set Family Tree containing a retrospective of Björk's career, comprising many previously unreleased versions of her compositions, including her work with the Brodsky Quartet. Also released alongside Family Tree was the album Greatest Hits, a retrospective of the previous 10 years of her solo career as deemed by the public: the songs on the album were chosen by Björk's fans through a poll on her website. A DVD edition of the CD was also released; it contained all of Björk's solo music videos up to that point. The new single from the set, "It's In Our Hands", charted in the UK at number 37. The video, directed by Spike Jonze, features a heavily pregnant Björk.
[edit] 2003–06: Medúlla and vocal development
Björk and the Brodsky Quartet recorded a composition written, especially for her, by composer John Tavener called "Prayer Of The Heart" in 2001 and it was played then for a slide show presentation in 2003 for the American photographer, Nan Goldin.
In 2003, Björk released a box set called Live Box, consisting of four CDs containing live recordings of her previous albums and a DVD featuring a video of one track from each CD. Each of the four CDs were later released separately at a reduced price.
In August 2004, Björk released Medúlla. During production, Björk decided the album would work best as an entirely vocal-based album. However, this initial plan didn't materialize exactly that way, as the majority of the sounds on the album are indeed created by vocalists but several feature prominent basic electronic programming. Björk used the vocal skills of throat singer Tagaq, hip hop beatboxer Rahzel, Japanese beatboxer Dokaka, avant-rocker Mike Patton, Soft Machine drummer/singer Robert Wyatt, and several choirs; she again appropriated text from e. e. cummings for the song "Sonnets/Unrealities XI". At the time Medúlla became her highest charting album in the US, debuting at number 14. It has since been surpassed by Volta, which debuted at number nine in the US.
In August 2004, Björk performed the song "Oceania" at the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. As she sang, her dress slowly unfurled to reveal a 10,000 square foot (900 m²) map of the world, which she let flow over all of the Olympic athletes. The song "Oceania" was written especially for the occasion and features the talents of Shlomo, a Leeds-based beatboxer, and a London choir. An alternate version of the song began circulating on the Internet with additional vocals by Kelis. It originally appeared on the promotional "Oceania" single released to radio stations and later became available to the public as a B-side of the "Who Is It" single, which charted at number 26 in the UK. This was followed in early 2005 by "Triumph of a Heart", charting at number 31. A video for the potential next single, "Where Is the Line?", was filmed in collaboration with the Icelandic artist Gabríela Fridriksdóttir in late 2004. This was initially a sequence from an art installation movie of the artists, but was released exclusively on the Medúlla Videos DVD as an official promo for the track.
Other than these few performances, no concerts or tours were arranged to promote Medúlla. Björk said in numerous interviews that this was because she wished to immediately continue writing and recording yet another new album. She spoke to Rolling Stone in June 2004: "Every album I've done, the minute that it's done, I feel really lubricated and, like, 'Wow, now I can write an album in five minutes'... And I just want to find out if that's just a fantasy or if it's true." Also, Björk thought it would be too difficult to play the songs live.[23]
In 2006, Björk remastered her first three solo studio albums (Debut, Post, Homogenic) and her two soundtrack albums (Selmasongs and Drawing Restraint 9) in 5.1 surround sound for a re-issue in a new box-set titled Surrounded, released on 27 June. Vespertine and Medúlla were already available in 5.1 as either DVD-A or SACD but are also included in the box set in repackaged format. The DualDiscs were also released separately.[24]
During this era, Björk earned another BRIT Awards nomination for Best International Female Solo Artist.[25] She was also awarded the Inspiration Award at the Annual Q Magazine Awards in October 2005, accepting the prize from Robert Wyatt, with whom she collaborated on Medúlla.[26]
Björk's former band, The Sugarcubes, reunited for a one-night-only concert in Reykjavík on 17 November 2006. Profits from the concert were donated to The Sugarcubes' former label, Smekkleysa, who according to Björk's press statement "continue to work on a non-profit basis for the future betterment of Icelandic music".[27]
[edit] 2007–10: Volta and global collaboration
Björk contributed a cover of Joni Mitchell's song "The Boho Dance" to the tribute album A Tribute to Joni Mitchell, released on 24 April 2007.
Björk's sixth full-length studio album, Volta, was released on 7 May 2007. It features 10 tracks primarily written and produced by Björk herself, and intended as more direct and extroverted than her past few albums, but featuring a wide range of collaborators and cross-cultural musical elements. Volta features input from acclaimed hip hop producer Timbaland, singer Antony Hegarty, poet Sjón, electronic beat programmer Mark Bell, kora master Toumani Diabate, pipa player Min Xiaofen, and on several songs, brass compositions by an all-female ensemble from Iceland. It also uses the Reactable, a novel "tangible-interface" synthesizer from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, which on Volta is played by Damian Taylor.
The first single from the album, "Earth Intruders", was released digitally on 9 April 2007 and became her second-ever Billboard Hot 100 entry in the United States. Volta debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 albums chart, becoming her first Top 10 album in the US, netting week-one sales of 43,000. The album also reached number three on the French albums chart with sales of 20,600 albums sold in its first week, and number seven in the UK Albums Chart with 20,456 units sold. The second single from the album, "Innocence", was digitally released on 23 July 2007, with an accompanying music video chosen from a contest conducted through her official website. "Declare Independence" was released on 1 January 2008 in a super deluxe packaging including 2 x 12" Vinyls, a CD and a DVD featuring Oscar-winning French director Michel Gondry's "Declare Independence" video.[28] "Wanderlust" was subsequently released in a similar format, featuring Encyclopedia Pictura's short film directed for the track, shot in stereoscopic 3D. The fifth single released from the album was "The Dull Flame of Desire", featuring vocals by Antony Hegarty. Upon its 27 September 2008 digital release, it topped the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales chart and reached number three on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales chart.[citation needed]
Björk then completed an 18 month world tour, having performed at many festivals and returning to Latin America after nine years, playing in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Curitiba, Guadalajara, Bogotá, Lima, Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires as part of different events. She also returned to Australia and New Zealand for the first time in 12 years in January 2008, touring the nations with the Big Day Out Festival. She played a one-off intimate show at the Sydney Opera House, as part of the Sydney Festival.
Announced via an eBay auction, a new Björk track was discovered under the title "Náttúra". Björk commented the song was "composed especially to encourage active support for a more environmental approach to Iceland’s natural resources than those suggested by parties who are aloof and blind to the consequences of their actions."
The song was initially labeled as a new single by Björk with backing vocals from Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. Björk's official website later confirmed that the single would be released on October 27, 2008, through iTunes,[29] however the track was eventually made available at nattura.grapewire.net, exclusively.[30]
Damian Taylor has mentioned collaborating with Björk on her new album using instruments like the Reactable and the Tenori-on.[31]
According to an October 2008 interview with Pitchfork magazine, Björk plans to take the next three to four years to record her next album.[32]
In a statement released by bjork.com, a limited edition boxset entitled Voltaïc from One Little Indian Records was announced, with a release date in North America of April 20, 2009 (later delayed to mid-June). The release consists of various live recordings of performances in Paris and Reykjavík. The live set was also recorded at the Olympic Studio in London. The release is available as Standard, Deluxe and Deluxe Vinyl, including up to four discs, depending on format. Disc 1 (AUDIO) Songs From The Volta Tour Performed Live At Olympic Studios Disc 2 (DVD) The Volta Tour Live In Paris, Live in Reykjavik Disc 3 (DVD) The Volta Videos and the video competition Disc 4 (CD) The Volta Mixes. [33]
In May 2010, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music announced that Björk was to receive the prestigious Polar Music Prize alongside Ennio Morricone.[34] A month later, Björk, along with Dirty Projectors, announced that they would be collaborating on a joint EP entitled Mount Wittenberg Orca, which was released on 30 June, to raise money for marine conservation.[35] In September 2010, Björk released "The Comet Song" as part of the soundtrack for the movie Moomins and the Comet Chase. Also in 2010, she dueted with fellow Icelander (and One Little Indian labelmate) Olof Arnalds on a track called "Surrender" from Arnalds' new album, Innundir skinni[36] and performed a duet with Antony and the Johnsons on the album Swanlights. The song is titled "Flétta".[37]
On 20 September 2010, Björk performed her version of "Gloomy Sunday" at designer Alexander McQueen's memorial in St. Paul's cathedral in London. On 7 December 2010, a previously unreleased song was released by Björk soundtracking a film made by Nick Knight as a tribute to McQueen, with whom Björk collaborated on multiple occasions.
Björk appeared on Átta Raddir, one of Jónas Sen's TV shows.[38] The episode aired on February 27, 2011.[39] The shows are produced by The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.[40] In the show Björk performed eight songs, including "Sun In My Mouth" which had not previously been performed live.
[edit] 2011–present: Biophilia, music, technology and nature
Björk, along with long-time collaborative partner, Michel Gondry, were originally announced to collaborate on a 3-D "scientific musical". Gondry states that it will be a 40-minute IMAX museum project.[41] On 3 December 2010, in an interview with Pitchfork, Björk was asked if she was "working on anything at the moment", and replied "Yes, it will be ready in [a] few months."[42] On 17 February 2011, Pitchfork reported that Björk would release a collaboration with Syrian musician Omar Souleyman. The project will be available "on limited 12-inch, CD, and digital download sometime this year".[43]
On 17 March 2011, Björk confirmed details about her next project, Biophilia. The new project will combine music with technological innovation and themes of science and nature, including an "app album", educational collaborations with children and specialized live performance, kicking off in Manchester, United Kingdom at the Manchester International Festival on 30 June. She will perform at the event for six nights. It is expected that the special project Biophilia will see her tour a select number of cities with extended residencies.[44] Björk performed at Bestival on 11 September. The press release stated that this would be her only outdoor concert of the year.[45] She is also scheduled to perform six shows, among which two during the Iceland Airwaves Festival, at Harpa in Iceland from 12 October to 7 November.[46]
In June 2011, the first single off Biophilia, "Crystalline", was released.[47] The song was composed using complex breakbeats along with only one of several specialized instruments custom built for the project, the "gameleste", a celesta modified with elements of gamelan. Other instruments used on the album and in Bjork's live performances harness lightning to create sound.
A central part of Biophilia is a series of interactive iPad apps made by leading programmers and designers, one app for each of the 10 songs on the new album. Bjork discussed how the apps would represent the scientific and natural ideas within the songs and enable people to play and understand the songs and ideas in different ways, such as "Virus", a love song between a virus and a cell, in which the "Virus" app will stop playing the song if you are successful in stopping the destructive relationship. Two of the apps, "Crystalline" and "Cosmogony", were released on 19 July 2011, along with a music video for "Crystalline", directed by Michel Gondry. However, the album was released in usual form as a series of 10 music tracks as well, including a CD release, on 10 October 2011, and Bjork said it is designed to work as music just as any of her other albums are.
In a June 2011 interview with Stereogum, Björk stated that her contract with her international record labels had ended since all promotions for Volta concluded and that she has signed with both National Geographic and Nonesuch for Biophilia.[48][49]
Music and voice[link]
Compositions[link]
Björk's music style tends to be quite eclectic and often challenging. She has embraced many genres throughout her career, creating a varied range of pieces, from big band music to sound art. Björk's lyrical themes range from personal matters to scientific, natural, or social topics.
Voice[link]
Björk possesses a soprano vocal range.[50] Her vocal range covers three octaves, going from F3 to E6, but she tends to use her chest and mid voice more often, using her head voice particularly during vocal games in live concerts. Her singing style is largely based on improvisation and natural expression, letting her voice perform long vocal acrobatics while performing. Classical composer John Tavener has praised Björk as being "more intelligent than most opera singers", music critic Alex Ross has cited Björk as one of the most gifted voices nowadays. The National Public Radio counted Björk among its list of "50 Great Voices" and MTV included her on its countdown "22 Greatest Voices in Music".
Currently, Björk trains her voice with vocal coach Maureen Scott from the British Voice Association.
Björk in film[link]
Björk's intermittent acting career began in 1986, when she appeared in The Juniper Tree, a tale of witchcraft based on the Brothers Grimm story of the same name. Björk played the role of Margit, a girl whose mother has been killed for practicing witchcraft. Björk also had an uncredited role in 1994's Prêt-à-Porter.
In 1999, Björk was asked to write and produce the musical score for the film Dancer in the Dark, a musical drama about an immigrant named Selma who is struggling to pay for an operation to prevent her son from going blind. Director Lars von Trier eventually asked her to consider playing the role of Selma, convincing her that the only true way to capture the character of Selma was to have the composer of the music play the character.[51] Eventually, she accepted. Filming began in early 1999, and the film debuted in 2000 at the 53rd Cannes Film Festival. The film received the Palme d'Or, and Björk received the Best Actress Award for her role.[5] It was reported that the shoot was so physically and emotionally tiring that she vowed never to act again. Björk later stated that she always wanted to do one musical in her life, and this was the one.[52]
The soundtrack Björk created for the film was released with the title Selmasongs. The album features a duet with Thom Yorke of Radiohead titled "I've Seen It All", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song and was performed at the 2001 Oscars, while Björk was wearing her celebrated[53] "swan dress," which was recently auctioned off for charity on eBay. She was invited to record "Gollum's Song" for the film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers but declined the invitation, as she was then pregnant; the song was instead recorded by another Icelander, Emilíana Torrini.
Björk also appeared in the 2005 documentary Screaming Masterpiece, which delves into the Icelandic music scene. The movie features archive footage of The Sugarcubes and Tappi Tíkarrass, and an ongoing conversation with Björk herself.
Her partner Matthew Barney is a contemporary artist based in New York. Björk collaborated with him on the experimental art film Drawing Restraint 9, a dialogueless exploration of Japanese culture. Björk and Barney both appear in the film, which was released in 2005. She is also responsible for the film's soundtrack, her second after Selmasongs.
Director and previous collaborator Michel Gondry asked Björk to star in his film The Science of Sleep, but she declined.[54]
She collaborated with SHOWstudio and founder Nick Knight in 2010 by providing music for an Alexander McQueen tribute.
Charitable work[link]
After the tsunami which struck Southeast Asia in late 2004, Björk began work on a new project entitled Army of Mixes to help raise money for a relief fund. This project recruited fans and musicians from around the world to either cover or remix the 1995 track, "Army of Me". From over 600 responses Björk and her co-writer Graham Massey picked the best twenty to appear on the album. The album was released in April in the UK and in late May 2005 in the US. By January 2006, the album had raised around £250,000 to help UNICEF's work in the south east Asian region.[55] Björk visited Banda Aceh in February 2006 to view some of UNICEF's work with the children who were affected by the tsunami.[56]
On 2 July 2005 Björk took part in the historic Live 8 series of concerts, headlining the Japan show with Do As Infinity, Good Charlotte and McFly. She performed eight songs with Matmos, a Japanese string octet and Zeena Parkins.[57]
Björk has also taken an interest in environmental issues in her native country. In 2004 Björk took part in the "Hætta" concert in Reykjavík, organised in protest against the building of Alcoa aluminium smelters in the country, which would make Iceland the biggest smelter in Europe. She founded the organization "Náttúra" which aims to promote Icelandic nature and grassroots industries. On October 28, 2008, Björk wrote an article for The Times discussing the state of the Icelandic economy, and her thoughts on the proposed use of natural resources to get the country out of debt. Björk, in collaboration with Audur Capital, set up a venture capital fund titled "BJÖRK" to support the creation of sustainable industries in Iceland. She has written the foreword to the English translation of the Iceland bestseller by Andri Snaer Magnason entitled "Dreamland." On May 21, 2010, Björk wrote an open letter in the newspaper Reykjavík Grapevine, calling on the Icelandic government to "do everything in its power to revoke the contracts with Magma Energy", the Canadian company who now has complete ownership of Icelandic geothermal company HS Orka.[58]
Protégés[link]
Over her extensive career, Björk has frequently used her position and influence to help launch new acts, or mentor them as they establish themselves as recording artists.
The first example of this was most evident with Iranian born electronica producer, Leila Arab. Leila was initially recruited to play keyboards and provide backing vocals on Björk's first international solo tour in 1993 in support of Björk's Debut album. In 1995, Björk recalled Leila's to be part of her second touring band for her next tour in support of the Post album. This time Leila was given the opportunity to experiment with the live output mixing from the stage, rather than playing keyboards. This was to be Leila's first encounter with live mixing, and would later form the basis of her own solo music career where she has integrated live mixing into her own compositions and live shows. Leila has gone on to release three international solo albums throughout the 1990s to present, on the influential electronica labels, Rephlex Records, XL Recordings and Warp Records.[59]
In 1998, Björk established her own short-lived record label, Ear Records, which operated under the One Little Indian Records umbrella. Her only signee that received a release was her long-time friend, Magga Stína. Magga Stína recorded her debut solo album under the production of Björk's longtime collaborator, Graham Massey (of the British electronica act 808 State.) The album was simply titled 'An Album' and featured just one single release, 'Naturally'. In 1998, Björk invited Magga Stína to perform as her support act on the Homogenic world tour, and in 2004 Stína contributed to the production of Björk's Medúlla album. Stína is presently still performing and recording in Iceland.
In 2001, Björk heard of a Canadian Inuit Throat Singer called Tagaq and invited her to perform on several dates of Björk's Vespertine world tour as a special guest. In 2004, Tagaq was invited to collaborate on the a cappella album Medúlla, in which the duet 'Ancestors' was recorded. 'Ancestors' was later featured on Tagaq's first solo album, Sinaa in 2005.
In 2004, Leila discovered the work of Finnish multimedia artist Heidi Kilpeläinen, who had taken her combination of Lo-fi, homemade electro pop with her own self-produced music videos, and combined them under the alter ego character, HK119. Leila soon referred HK119's work to Björk, who quickly and excitedly started mentioning HK119 in various press and interviews. In 2004, Björk announced HK119 as her favourite act of 2004, and cited her as "The Perfect Blonde Woman".[60] HK119 was soon signed to Björk's parent label One Little Indian Records, who released her debut HK119 album in 2006. HK119 and Björk appeared in a joint interview in Dazed & Confused magazine in 2006, where Björk stated about HK119's work "It's unique. Even if I gave you $3million, you couldn't improve on it... Their simplicity is their strength."[61] HK119 later released her second album, Fast, Cheap And Out Of Control in 2008 on One Little Indian Records, and is currently recording her third album.
In 2009, Björk used her website and various radio interviews throughout the year to express her enthusiasm for two more new acts. The first was fellow Icelandic musician, Ólöf Arnalds, who is also a member of Icelandic folktronica band múm. In 2006, Arnalds released her debut solo album Við Og Við in Iceland, which Björk citied as one of her favourite recent new acts of the last few years during a radio interview, and encouraged One Little Indian Records to reissue the album in the UK and Europe in 2009. On the same radio show for the American NPR channel, Björk also praised the works of emerging British artist Micachu and the more obscure, Omar Souleyman. Björk later used her official website to host the premier of Micachu's debut video on the Rough Trade Records, 'Turn Me Well'.[62]
Personal life[link]
Family[link]
Björk's father, Guðmundur Gunnarsson, is a well-known union leader in Iceland and was nationally recognized before his daughter became famous. Her mother, Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, has also been politically active.
Björk and her partner, artist Matthew Barney, have a daughter, Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney, born 3 October 2002. Björk also has a son, Sindri Eldon Thórsson, born 8 June 1986, with Thór Eldon, who was her band mate in The Sugarcubes. Sindri is a journalist and has his own solo project simply called "Sindri Eldon".
Paparazzi and controversies[link]
Björk has complained of being hounded by paparazzi. In 1996, Björk arrived at Bangkok International Airport with her son Sindri after a long haul flight when Julie Kaufman, a female reporter, greeted Björk with "Welcome to Bangkok", which was then followed by Björk attacking her and knocking her to the ground. Björk has said that the reason for the attack was that the reporters in the airport started talking to her son, saying such things as "It must be hard to be the son of a pop star." Björk's record company also said that the reporter had been pestering Björk for four days. Björk later apologized to Kaufman, who declined to involve the police. On 13 January 2008, Björk attacked a photographer who had photographed her arrival at Auckland International Airport in New Zealand for her scheduled performance at the Big Day Out festival.[63] Björk allegedly tore the photographer's shirt down the back, and in the process she fell to the ground.[64] Neither the photographer nor his employer, The New Zealand Herald, lodged a formal complaint, and Auckland police did not investigate further.[65]
Political views[link]
Björk's years in KUKL aligned her with the left-wing, specifically anarchist, Crass Collective.[66] While she has since been hesitant to be seen as an overtly political figure, and has said so on her website,[67] she is strongly supportive of numerous liberation movements across the globe, including support for independence for Kosovo.[68]
She dedicated her song "Declare Independence" to Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which caused a minor controversy in the Faroes. When Björk twice dedicated "Declare Independence" to the people of Kosovo during a concert in Japan,[69] a planned performance of hers was cancelled at Serbia's Exit Festival, reportedly due to safety concerns.
In 2008, Björk set off an international controversy after she dedicated "Declare Independence" to the Tibet freedom movement during a Shanghai concert, chanting "Tibet! Tibet!" during the song. China's Culture Ministry issued a denunciation through state news agency Xinhua stating that Björk "broke Chinese law" and "hurt Chinese people's feelings", and pledged to further tighten control over foreign artists performing in China. A later statement accused Björk of "whipping up ethnic hatred".[70]
Sexuality[link]
In an interview with Diva magazine in October 2004, she said:
I think everyone's bisexual to some degree or another; it's just a question of whether or not you choose to recognize it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.[71]
Björk has accumulated a large homosexual fanbase over the years; in an interview with Instinct magazine in 2004, she acknowledged it, saying:
I like to think of people who buy my records as equals. Don't think of them as gay or black or young or old. They're just people who enjoy my music. I've had so many close gay friends all my life, it's not that big of a deal with me. But I'd be lying if I said there weren't things I find easier to talk about with gay guys.[72]
Stalker[link]
On 12 September 1996, obsessed fan Ricardo López mailed an acid-spraying letter bomb to Björk's London home and then killed himself, but the package was intercepted by the Metropolitan Police Service.[73] López filmed himself in the process of making the acid bomb which was intended to severely scar the singer's face and torso. The nearly 18 hours of videotape described López's obsession with Björk, the construction of the device, his thoughts on love and other subjects, including racial remarks against Björk's then-boyfriend Goldie. The video footage continues after his mailing the bomb to Björk's London home and ends as López shaves his head, applies face paint and commits suicide by shooting himself on camera.[74]
In her few public comments on this event, Bjork later said it was hard emotionally, and it disrupted her life and work in London, explaining in part why she chose to leave the UK scene for good, reject her cute image, and began to write more personally with Homogenic (1997).
Discography[link]
Main article: Björk discography
- Björk (1977)
- Debut (1993)
- Post (1995)
- Homogenic (1997)
- Vespertine (2001)
- Medúlla (2004)
- Volta (2007)
- Biophilia (2011)
Awards and nominations[link]
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Björk
Filmography[link]
Cameos and Soundtrack Appearances[link]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Rokk í Reykjavík | Cameo with the Tappi Tíkarrass |
| 1983 | Nýtt Líf | Features music of the Tappi Tíkarrass |
| 1994 | Prêt-à-Porter | Cameo as a Model (Uncredited) |
| 2005 | Screaming Masterpiece | |
| 2005 | Arakimentari | Documentary on Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki |
| 2006 | Matthew Barney: No Restraint | Documentary on the making of Drawing Restraint 9 |
| 2010 | Moomins and the Comet Chase | Features the original song The Comet Song |
Bibliography[link]
- 1984 – Um Úrnat frá Björk (free distribution)
- 1995 – Post
- 2001 – Björk (Little-i)
- 2003 – Björk Live Book
Related bibliography[link]
- Post, by Sjón Sigurðsson/Björk Ltd. Bloomsbury (1995).
- Björk – The Illustrated Story, by Paul Lester. Hamlyn (1996).
- Björk – An Illustrated Biography, by Mick St. Michael. Omnibus Press (1996).
- Björk Björkgraphy, by Martin Aston. Simon & Schuster (1996).
- Björk, Colección Imágenes de Rock, N°82, by Jordi Bianciotto. Editorial La Máscara (1997).
- Dancer in the Dark, by Lars von Trier. Film Four (2000).
- Lobster or Fame, by Ólafur Jóhann Engilbertsson. Bad Taste (2000).
- Army of She, by Evelyn McDonnell. Random House (2001).
- Human Behaviour, by Ian Gittins. Carlton (2002).
- Björk: There's More to Life Than This: The Stories Behind Every Song, by Ian Gittins. Imprint (2002).
- Wow and Flutter, by Mark Pytlik. ECW (2003).
- Björk, by Nicola Dibben. Equinox (2009).
See also[link]
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Book: Björk |
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- Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar
- Kraumur – a music fund of which Björk is an advisory board member
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
- Mononymous persons
- Music of Iceland
- Vegvísir – Björk's largest tattoo, located on her left arm
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Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( /ˈbjɜrk/; [ˈpjœr̥k ˈkvʏðmʏntsˌtoʊhtɪr] ( listen); born 21 November 1965), known as Björk, is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. Her musical style is eclectic and she has achieved recognition in rock, jazz, electronic dance music, classical, and folk.
Björk's 1990s singles "It's Oh So Quiet", "Army of Me" and "Hyperballad" charted in the UK Top 10.[citation needed] Her record label, One Little Indian, reported that by 2003 she had sold more than 15 million albums worldwide. She has acquired a high level of critical acclaim. She has won four BRIT Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, one MOJO Award, three UK Music Video Awards, and, in 2010, the Polar Music Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, in recognition for her "deeply personal music and lyrics, her precise arrangements and her unique voice".
Björk has also been nominated for twelve Grammy Awards, one Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. She won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in Dancer in the Dark. She was ranked thirty-sixth in VH1's "The 100 Greatest Women in Rock and Roll", eighth in MTV's "22 Greatest Voices in Music", and sixtieth in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time".
