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Björk Guðmundsdóttir was born on the 21st of November 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland. She began her music career at the age of 11, when a teachers' recording of her singing led to a contract with the Fálkinn record label.
Björk was the lead singer of the Sugarcubes, an alternative rock band formed in Reykjavík in 1986. The band signed with One Little Indian and Elektra Records, released their debut album Life's Too Good in 1988, and sold more than one million copies worldwide before disbanding in 1992.
Björk won the Best Actress Award at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for her role as Selma in Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark. The film also won the Palme d'Or, and the song "I've Seen It All" from its soundtrack was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Björk has sold over 40 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling alternative artists of all time. Thirty-one of her singles have reached the top 40 on pop charts around the world, including 22 top-40 hits in the UK.
Biophilia, released in October 2011, was the first album ever released as a series of interactive apps, one for each of its ten songs. In 2014, those apps became the first ever inducted into the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. The album also included an education programme for school-children aged 10-12 that the Reykjavík City Board of Education brought to all schools in the city over three years.
On the 12th of September 1996, Ricardo López, an obsessed Uruguayan-American fan, mailed a letter bomb disguised as a book to Björk's London home. It was designed to spray sulphuric acid on her face. López filmed his own suicide after mailing the device, and his body and plans were discovered before the package arrived; Scotland Yard defused the bomb. Björk later said she "couldn't sleep for a week" and hired security for her son Sindri.