Watch Björk, Age 11, Read a Christmas Nativity Story on a 1976 Icelandic TV Special. The holidays can be hard, starting in October when the red and green decorations begin muscling in on the Halloween aisle. Most Wonderful Time of the Year, you say? Oh, go stuff a stocking in it, Andy Williams! The majority of us have more in common with the Grinch, Scrooge, and/or the Little Match Girl. Still, it’s hard to resist the preternaturally mature 11-year-old Björk reading the nativity story in her native Icelandic, backed by unsmiling older kids from the Children’s Music School in Reykjavík. Particularly since I myself do not speak Icelandic. The fact that it’s in black and white is merely the blueberries on the spiced cabbage.
It speaks highly of the Icelandic approach to education that a principal's office regular who reportedly chafed at her school's “retro, constant Beethoven and Bach bollocks” curriculum was awarded the plum part in this 1976 Christmas special for the National Broadcasting Service. Related Content: Bjork 11yo | Dangerous Minds. 20 yo Happy Mag - Björk's First Band Tappi Tíkarrass. Le site francophone sur Björk. Björk: Violently Appy. In the August issue, Dazed editor Rod Stanley visited Björk at home in New York to talk iPad apps, the Icelandic banking crisis, and explorers that sleep in trees. The 21st century is going to be fun. To say that this is not the received view in 2011 would be an understatement — if it's not political turmoil or global economic meltdown, take your pick from climate apocalypse or any other number of emergent threats to happiness, sanity and stability. Icelandic pop maverick Björk, however, is refusing to be cowed.
The future might not be the shiny utopia of self-lacing moonboots we were once promised, but she believes that evolving technology is about to reunite humanity with the natural world. Yes, the 21st century is going to be fun, she has decided. Björk leans forward to take a cup of fresh mint tea in her hands. These roses disappear around the corner of a balcony that surrounds the top floor of this apartment block in one of the older, more refined Brooklyn neighbourhoods. First Listen: Björk, 'Biophilia'