Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir: Who is Björk’s mother?

Bjork Guomundsdottir was born on November 21, 1965, in Reykjavik, Iceland, to her activist mother Hildur Runa Kauksdottir, and union leader and electrician father Guðmundur Gunnarsson.

Her parents split shortly after she was born and she moved with her mother to a commune. At age six, Bjork enrolled at the Reykjavík school Barnamúsíkskóli, where she studied classical piano and flute.

Who is Björk’s mother?

Her mother was activist Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir (7 October 1946 – 25 October 2018), who protested against the development of Iceland’s Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant.

In 1993, she began working with producer Nellee Hooper who was, amongst others, famous for producing Massive Attack. Their collaboration birthed Björk’s first international solo hit Human Behaviour. It didn’t receive loads of radio time but it did gain a lot of airtime, especially on MTV

Several of Björk’s albums have reached the top 20 on the US Billboard 200 chart. As of 2015, she had sold more than 20 million records worldwide. Thirty-one of her singles have reached the top 40 on pop charts around the world, with 22 top-40 hits in the UK