Björk
Björk in 2005, photo by PrPhotos
Birth Name: Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Place of Birth: Reykjavik, Iceland
Date of Birth: November 21, 1965
Ethnicity: Icelandic
Björk is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, actress, and advocate for environmental causes. She has sold more than 22 million records worldwide. Björk has a distinct three-octave vocal range, with a musical output incorporating electronic, pop, experimental, trip hop, classical, and avant-garde styles. She is known for the songs “Play Dead,” “Big Time Sensuality,” “Violently Happy,” “Army of Me,” “It’s Oh So Quiet,” “Hyperballad,” and “I’ve Seen It All,” and starred in the film Dancer in the Dark. Her album “Biophilia” was an interactive app album with an education program. She was the lead singer of alternative rock band the Sugarcubes.
Björk is the daughter of father Guðmundur Gunnarsson, an electrician and union leader, and mother Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir, a nature activist, homeopath, and nature conservationist. She has a son with her former husband Þór Eldon; and a daughter with her former partner, American artist Matthew Barney.
Aside from Icelandic, she has said that she has distant Irish ancestry. It is not clear if this Irish ancestry has been verified/documented.
Some have speculated that Björk could be of indigenous Inuit or Sami ethnicity, but there is no evidence of this being the case. Inuit or Sami people are not common in Iceland.
Björk’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her seventh great-grandfather, Jón “Eldri” Þorgilsson.
Björk’s paternal grandfather is Gunnar Guðmundsson (the son of Guðmundur Jóhannesson and Kristín Gunnarsdóttir). Björk’s great-grandfather Guðmundur was the son of Jóhannes Guðmundsson and Ingibjörg Eysteinsdóttir. Kristín was the daughter of Gunnar Kristófersson and Kristín Guðmundsdóttir.
Björk’s paternal grandmother was Hallfríður Guðmundsdóttir (the daughter of Guðmundur “Briskó” Jónsson and Rósa Bachmann Jónsdóttir). Björk’s great-grandfather Guðmundur was the son of Jón Jónsson and Vilborg Guðlaugsdóttir. Rósa was the daughter of Jón Bachmann Jósefsson and Hallfríður Einarsdóttir.
Björk’s maternal grandfather was Guðjón Þórir Tómasson (the son of Tómas Sigurðsson and Sigrún Kristinsdóttir). Guðjón was born in Dalvik, Northeast, Iceland. Björk’s mother was raised and adopted by her own stepfather, Haukur/Hauk Freygarð Guðjónsson. Haukur was the son of Guðjón Guðjónsson and Sveinbjörg Jónsdóttir.
Björk’s maternal grandmother was named Guðrún Helgadóttir/Ásmundsdóttir (born Helgudóttir, the daughter of Helga Guðbjörg Helgadóttir). Guðrún was adopted by Ásmundur Gestsson and Sigurlaug Pálsdóttir. Helga was the daughter of Helgi Andrésson and Helga Björnsdóttir.
Björk’s matrilineal ancestry can be traced back to her fifth great-grandmother, Olufa Nicolausdóttir.
Sources: Genealogies of Bjork – http://gw.geneanet.org
https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Björk (focusing on her father’s side) – http://mediasvc.ancestry.com
Obituary of Björk’s mother – https://www.dv.is
Obituary of Björk’s maternal granduncle, Andrés Ásmundsson – http://www.mbl.is
I heard on TV that the Icelandic people are the descendants of indigenous peoples of Siberia, who moved there!lol This is a scientifically proven fact.:)
I accidentally thumbed you up. The Icelandic population has been heavily dna tested. They are mostly Norwegian on the male side and Irish and Scottish on the female side. There were only a few Irish monks in Iceland before the Vikings got there.
You heard wrong because they most certainly are not. They are the descendants of Viking settlers and their Irish and Scottish slaves.
Nantes they weren’t necessarily slaves. A lot of the Vikings that went to Iceland were from Ireland and the western Scottish isles. They would have most likely had an Irish mother and had taken wives with them from Ireland/Scotland. They had lived in the Irish sea area for a few generations before moving to Iceland.
When I say epicanthic folds are
VERY unusual, I mean REAL folds. I have seen some
people with external or median folds, but I
don’t think that counts as epicanthic folds.
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o21/Kadu_album/eyefoldsil5.jpg
Another thing I would like to say
is that people from the coast of
Western and Northern Norway are
more likely than other Norwegians to have
black hair and dark brown eyes.
I think this is because of the Mediterranean sailors
that sailed by the Norwegian coast.
This guy has NO idea what he is talking about!
NO, epicanthal folds are NOT common at ALL
in Scandinavians. Do you even live in Scandinavia?
I am Northern Norwegian and I would not say that
there are MANY people with dark hair and/or dark eyes, but
they are a large minority. And are you saying that
Scandinavians look like Koreans?
Interesting stuff about Scandinavians. Again another stereotype disproved.
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Many Scandinavians (if not most) have features that many Europeans would see as “Asiatic” (high cheek bones and eyes et cetera), even though Bjork’s epicanthal folds (which are not at all uncommon in Scandinavians; North Germanic or Finnic) are more pronounced than many.
Her eye and hair colour are dark but then so are many Northern Swedes and Norwegians no-doubt to the climate. Further north people start to get darker again, probably due to the effects of sunlight reflected on the snow amongst other things.
To me Bjork looks like a Scandinavian woman, though she could probably pass for a Japanese or Korean due to her hair and eye colour. But then I find they have a similar look (along with Slavs, Balts and Uralic peoples). Bjork hardly looks Chinese though, in my opinion.
denmark is notorious for huge sperm and eggs banks in the country. and those sperm banks import and export with other agencies all the time. cant say they are regulated strictly as denmark has very open policies compared to other countries. genetically engineered children do not go around telling everyone what they are made of. i am not saying bjork is one but it certainly is a huge possibility. look up miranda kerr and compare her look to her parents and you tell me she is not a product of genetic engineering. and her mother looks like dyed her hair black to match the colour with thr daughter
I am of Icelandic ancestry and have access to a closed genealogy website strictly for Icelanders. I am Bjork’s eighth cousin (everyone with recent Icelandic ancestry is everyone’s eighth cousin) and can assure you that Bjork is not a donor child. I can trace her family history quite far back.
She does not look Korean nor Japanese, nor Chinese. Some slavic people can have features a bit similar, but even there it’s rare. I’m asian, and I wouldn’t confuse Bjork for being any type of east asian. She does look like she might have som inuit blood, and no inuits do not look like Koreans and Japanese, you have a mediocre understanding of Asian people. Bjork is just a white woman with some distinct features, but she would still stand out in East Asia… believe me.