BJÖRK PROJECT

INTRODUCTION TO MEDIATORS

• Always looking for the hint of good in even the worst of people and events.
• Searching for ways to make things better.
• They may be perceived as calm, reserved, or even shy.

STRENGTHS

• Idealistic.
• Seek and Value Harmony.
• Open-Minded and Flexible.
• Very Creative.
• Passionate and Energetic.
• Dedicated and Hard-Working.

WEAKNESS

• Too Idealistic.
• Too Altruistic.
• Impractical.
• Dislike Dealing With Data.
• Take Things Personally.
• Difficult to Get to Know.

CELEBRITY OVERVIEW

• Björk grew up in a hippie-type community with her mother and her seven siblings.
• Björk's life is spent half in New York and half in Iceland.
• Björk moved to London to pursue a solo career; she began working with producer Nellee Hooper (who had produced Massive Attack, among others).
• November 21, 1965.
• 53 years old.
• Björk's son: Sindri Eldon Þórsson, age: 33.
• Björk's daughter: Ísadóra Bjarkardóttir Barney, age: 16.
• Her name is pronounced "Be-york".

CAREER OVERVIEW

• Bjork is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and DJ.
• Attended music school.
• Inspired from a novel by the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, who died last year, to the experimental rap of California's Death Grips, who provided new takes on Sacrifice and Thunderbolt for her ongoing remix series. She is also a fan of harbours, Pakistani Sufi singer Abida Parveen, and coconut water.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

• Bachelor's degree (recommended, required for opera singers).
• Music theory, music performance.
• Often begins before adulthood with lessons and recitals.
• At six, Björk enrolled at Reykjavík school Barnamúsíkskóli, where she studied classical piano and flute.
• Björk has been singing, writing music, and performing for four decades, so it's not surprising that she's got quite a few compositions under her belt.

RESUME

• Famous for her solo work covering a wide variety of music styles.
• "Hunter" is a song recorded by Icelandic musician Björk for her third studio album Homogenic (1997). The lyrics explore the pressure Björk felt to write music after realising the workforce that depended on her, following the success she found as a solo artist with her previous studio albums.
• Movies: Dancer in the Dark, Inside Björk, and more.
• Björk has been working on this since she was 11 which has been 42 years ago.

ROLE MODEL

• A lot of people argue that the MoMA exhibition is unfair because she already has a world stage at her disposal.
• “OK, I will put my head into the place where I have to talk about me,” Björk says, shifting in her seat.
• We have the opposite because I only sing alone, draw, or write down things I like to do.

SOURCES

• Theguardian.com
• 16personalities.com
• This information is credible because it says what I'm looking for.
• Have some quotes: "Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy."
• "I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time."
• "It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end."