Bjork

Bjork is an Icelandic born (Nov 21) singer, who came to prominence as lead singer of the Sugarcubes with hits such "Hit" and "Leash called love" (US Dance #1 in December 1992), before breaking out on her own. Arguably her biggest songs were "Big time sensuality" (2 weeks as US Dance #1 in February 1994), "Violently happy", "It's oh so quiet" (cover of the Betty Hutton classic, 1948), "Play Dead" (from the film "The Young Americans" soundtrack) and "Hyperballad" (1 week as US Dance #1 in April 1996). "I miss you" also spent 1 week at #1 on the US Dance chart. She recorded her first album at the age of 11. As she launched solo career, she moved to the UK and immersed herself in dance and club culture, working with many of the biggest names in the genre, and receiving remix treatments from Underworld, Dom T, Fluke, µ-Ziq, Goldie, Mika Vainio, Alec Empire, Bogdan Raczynski, Beastie Boys and others. She was produced by Nellie Hooper. The bulk of her success did come in the 90s with no less than 14 Top 40 hits in the UK alone (20 in total so far).

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1992   17	Hit (credited to Sugarcubes)
Jun 1993   36	Human Behaviour
Sep 1993   29	Venus As A Boy 
Oct 1993   12	Play Dead (with David Arnold)
Dec 1993   17	Big Time Sensuality
Mar 1994   13	Violently Happy
May 1995   10	Army Of Me
Aug 1995   23	Isobel
Nov 1995    4	It's Oh So Quiet
Feb 1996    8	Hyperballad
Nov 1996   13	Possibly Maybe
Mar 1997   36	I Miss You
Dec 1997   21	Bachelorette
Dec 1998   33	Alarm Call
Jun 1999   24	All Is Full Of Love

What happened next?
Bjork quickly developed as a producer, moving from co-producer role on her early albums to full producer role in her later work, as her Music Producers Guild Award for Innovation in the category of production testifies. She is well recognized in both pop and experimental music worlds: her album Vespertine became album of the year by The Wire Magazine in 2001 and she won more than 20 awards in Europe and received 15 nominations in the US. While Bjork developed her unconventional song structures, she has worked with many renowned artists, mainly in the realm of electronic music. One of her long-time friends and main collaborators was Mark Bell of LFO who co-produced many of her songs and even co-wrote a number of pieces over the years. There are other artists who played important roles in the creative part of her work: Guy Sigsworth, Icelandic poet Sjon who helped on lyrics for some of her key songs and video director Michel Gondry (who directed the cult classic "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind").