I remember a co-student of mine asking me in, probably some time around 1993, I was studying in Hamburg:

Hey, I have a ticket for Björk in Grosse Freiheit this week, I paid 20 bucks, can't go, want it for 15?

Me: Who is Björk? Whatever, sure.

There were maybe 30-50 people on that concert. It was mindblowing; very personal. I didn't know her music at all and ended up 2m away from the small stage. After that I definitely knew who Björk was. :)

Her song "All is full of love" and the music video by Chris Cunningham is hauntingly beautiful, a magnificent work of art: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9JE6rUwfckI (NSFW, lesbian robot sex)

No clue why this is on HN, but Bjork is brilliant. IMO one of the greatest living musical artists. If you haven’t listened to one of her records, I recommend starting with Homogenic

EDIT: For deeper dives, note that each album is generally thematic. Vespertine is about physical intimacy, Volta experiments with percussion, Medulla is 100% human vocals, etc. Wikipedia is your friend here :)

Björk, daughter (dóttir) of Guðmundur. Icelandic names are cool, they keep the son-of- / daughter-of- tradition of old. From Wikipedia:

> Icelandic surnames are different from most other naming systems in the modern Western world in that they are patronymic or occasionally matronymic: they indicate the father (or mother) of the child and not the historic family lineage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_name