The 56-year-old was raised in Iceland’s capital Reykjavík but moved to New York City in the late 1990s where she married artist Matthey Barney.

They welcomed daughter Isadora in 2002 and she is also mom to son Sindri born in 1986 with former bandmate Thor Eldon.

Björk said the scale of violence seen in the United States would not happen in Iceland because culturally the whole population would feel the pain from anything tragic.

The artist also revealed Isadora was studying at a school near Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut where mass shooter Adam Lanza murdered 20 children and six adults before turning the gun on himself in 2012.

“The violence in the USA is on a scale I can’t even fathom,” she told Pitchfork in an interview.

“And having a daughter that’s half-American in school [in New York], 40 minutes away from Sandy Hook… When we are here, I absorb all of Iceland. If one person is killed in the north, we all hurt. It’s an island mentality.

“In the States, just being a simple islander, all the violence was just too much for me.”

Björk was also devastated when Donald Trump was elected U.S President in 2016 and admitted she burst into tears when it happened.

“It’s the only time something happened on the news where I actually just broke down and cried,” she explained. “I was just ruined.”

Björk is no stranger to violence.

In 1996, obsessed fan Ricardo Lopez took his own life after mailing a letter bomb filled with sulfuric acid to her home in London.

The 21 year old had grown angry at the singer after finding out she was in a relationship with with the DJ Goldie and wanted to find ways to “punish” her.

Björk spoke after the incident saying she was “very upset that somebody had died. I couldn’t sleep for a week.”

“And I’d be lying if I said it didn’t scare the f**k out of me. That I could get hurt and, most of all, that my son could get hurt,” she told media outside her home a year after Lopez’s death.

Björk also has been involved in incidents of violence against paparazzi over the years.

She launched at reporter Julie Kaufman at Bangkok International Airport in 1996 as a media pack descended on her and her son after a long-haul flight.

Björk knocked Kaufman to the ground and smacked her head on the hard floor after the reporter approached her and said “welcome to Bangkok.”

Kaufman declined to press charges and Björk apologized for the incident.

Then 12 years later, she was involved in a similar incident at Auckland International Airport in New Zealand when she attacked a photographer who snapped shots of her after being asked not to.

Björk pulled and ripped the shirt of New Zealand Herald photogragher Glenn Jeffrey as he walked away from her.

“I took a couple of pictures and I got about three or four frames of her…and as I turned and walked away she came up behind me, grabbed the back of my black skivvy (sweatshirt) and tore it down the back,” he told Reuters in 2008.

“As she did this she fell over, she fell to the ground. At no stage did I touch her or speak with her.”

Jeffrey also declined to press charges and Auckland Police did not investigate the incident.

The singer is getting ready to release her 10th studio album called Fossora on September 30.

Pitchfork described it as a “fungus-themed” opus which “carries echoes of those past lives, even as she sinks her toes into combustible new ground in the form of reggaeton beats, endearingly goofy bass clarinet honks, and barrages of mutant gabber, courtesy of the Indonesian duo Gabber Modus Operandi.”

She rose to fame with her innovative and genre bending albums, Debut, Post and Homogenic.

At the turn of the century Björk tried her hand at acting and gave a critically acclaimed performance in Lars Von Trier’s film, Dancer In The Dark.

That role earned her a best actress award at the Cannes International Film Festival and Academy Award nomination for best original song for “I’ve Seen It All.”

In 2022 she appeared in the Viking drama, The Northman, alongside Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård and Anna Taylor Joy.

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