Björk Guðmundsdóttir, daughter of Hildur Hauksdóttir and Gudmundur Gunnarsson, was born november 21:st 1965. She has three sisters and three brothers by three different mothers and three different fathers. From the age of 6 to 14 she went to Reykjaviks Musicshool.
 
There she learnt to play the piano and the flute. She released her first album as soon as 1977, only 11 years old. It contains songs with covers of for example Stevie Wonder and The Beatles and Icelandic singers in a seventies style. As a child she was sometimes a bit of a loner, the other children would sometimes tease her because of her oriental appearance, which is uncommon in Iceland, and she was often called "chinagirl". She learned to manage on her own and became a strong individual.

 

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