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Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Vocal Range: E3 – B6

Significant High Notes:
B6 ("Deus" live Paris 1989, "Pökn (Fyrir Byrjendur)" live Reykjavík 1983)
G♯6 ("Pökn (Fyrir Byrjendur)" live Reykjavík 1983)
E6 ("Vitamin" live Toronto 1992)
E♭6 ("Vitamin" E Mix)
D6 ("Atlantic" live Manchester 1993, "Delicious Demon", "It's Oh So Quiet", "Outward Flight (Psalm 323)", "Speed Is the Key", "Vitamin")
C6 ("Hey", "Shoot Him", "Speed Is the Key", "Vitamin")
B5 ("Assassin", "Chihuahua", "Cindy", "Hot Meat", "Murder" live Hamburg 1986, "My Spine", "Nail", "Pæklaðar Plómur", "Telpurnar í Bangkok", "Þórður Sjóari" live Reykjavík 1989^[1])
B♭5 ("A Cappella Singing" live Modern Minimalists, "Ammæli", "Declare Independence" live Paris 2008, "F***ing in Rhythm & Sorrow", "Hey", "Icelandic Gibberish Techno Trip-Hop Song" live Reykjavík 1990, "Man on the Cross", "Nu Flyver Anton", "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)" Bell Choir Mix)
A5 ("Anna", "Birthday", "Bohemian Rhapsody" live Toronto 1992, "Delicious Demon", "Deus", "Eat the Menu", "Gold", "Gotham Lullaby" live Union Chapel 1999, "I Miss You" live Shepherd's Bush Empire 1997", "Kata rokkar", "Outward Flight (Psalm 323)", "The Spire", "Þórður Sjóari" live Reykjavík 1989)
G♯5 ("Bath", "Big Time Sensuality" live Toronto 1995, "Blue Eyed Pop", "Drukknuð Börn", "Enjoy" The Beats Mix, "Greece (Just by the Book)", "Íþróttir", "Possibly Maybe" live TFI Friday, "Sod Off")
G5 ("The Anchor Song" live Cambridge 1998, "Army of Me" Skunk Anansie version, "Big Time Sensuality" live Vessel, "Bílavísur", "Crying", "Cvalda", "The Gate", "Gotham Lullaby" live Union Chapel 1999, "The Green Green Grass of Home", "Hey", "Kata rokkar", "Motorcycle Mama", "Nu Flyver Anton", "One Day" Springs Eternal Mix, "Qmart", "Ruby Baby", "Shoot Him", "So Broken" live Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 1998, "Speed Is the Key", "Sperglar", "Storm", "Telpurnar í Bangkok", "There's More to Life Than This" live Vessel, "Walkabout")
F♯5 ("Amphibian", "Bee", "Borgarblús", "Börn í borg", "Cindy", "Cvalda", "Dark Matter", "Eat the Menu", "Ekki Heiti Ég Elísabet", "F***ing in Rhythm & Sorrow", "Gibraltar (Copy Thy Neighbour)", "Gling Gló", "Gold", "Holland (Latent)", "Hot Meat", "I Go Humble", "I've Seen It All", "Jóga" live Cambridge 1998, "Leash Called Love", "Litla Stúlkan með Eldspýturnar", "Live Singing" live Toronto 1992, "Lucky Night", "Luftguitar", "Nail", "Í Öskjuhlíð/(Öskjuhliðarendi) Homage á Paden Powel", "Planet", "Polo", "Regina", "Seagull", "Skúli Fógeti", "Storm", "Sun in My Mouth", "Tidal Wave", "Travessia", "World's Collapse")
F5 ("5 Years" live Union Chapel 1999, "Allow", "Ammæli", "Ancestors", "Blissing Me", "Charlene", "Cry Me a River" live Reykjavík 1990, "A Day Called Zero", "Declare Independence", "Dragon", "Dream TV", "Fa-Fa", "Family", "France (A Mutual Thrill)", "Gloomy Sunday" live Walden Woods 1998, "Greece (Just by the Book)", "Harm of Will", "Hetero Scum", "Hit", "Hrollur" live Reykjavík 1982, "Human Behaviour", "Hyperballad" live Robin Hood Riding Through the Glen Mix, "I Can't Help Loving That Man", "I Miss You" live TFI Friday, "Icelandic Gibberish Techno Trip-Hop Song" live Reykjavík 1990, "Icelandic Jazz Song" live Reykjavík 1990, "Lilith", "Lionsong", "Luktar-Gvendur", "Mama", "Man on the Cross", "The Modern Things", "Motorcrash", "Mouth Mantra", "Murder" live Hamburg 1986, "Ó Borg Mín Borg", "One Day" Springs Eternal Mix, "Outward Flight (Psalm 323)", "Play Dead", "Prayer of the Heart", "Qmart", "Ruby Baby", "So Broken", "The Spire", "Take Some Petrol Darling", "Tondeleyo", "Undo", "Utopia", "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)", "You Don't Know What Love Is" live Reykjavík 1990)
E5 ("5 Years" live Union Chapel 1999, "Á horninu", "Aegean (Vials of Wrath)", "Aeroplane", "The Anchor Song" live Cambridge 1998, "Anna", "Ástartöfrar", "Aurora", "Bath", "Bee", "Big Time Sensuality" Plaid Mix, "Bílavísur", "Birthday", "Blissing Me", "Blue Eyed Pop", "Borgarblús", "Brestir og brak", "Chihuahua", "Cindy", "Cocoon" live Royal Opera House 2001, "Come to Me" live MTV Unplugged, "Courtship", "Cowboy", "Cry Me a River" live Reykjavík 1990, "Crying" live MTV Unplugged / Live, "Cvalda", "Dark Matter", "Delicious Demon", "Dense Time" session #1, "Deus", "Dragon", "Dream TV", "Drengirnir í Bangkok/Telpurnar í Bangkok", "Drukknuð Börn", "Dúkkulísur" live Reykjavík 1982, "Earth Intruders", "Eat the Menu", "Ekki Heiti Ég Elísabet", "France (A Mutual Thrill)", "The Gate", "Gibraltar (Copy Thy Neighbour)", "Gold", "Green", "Handa Tjolla", "Headphones", "Hey", "Hot Meat", "Hrollur" live Reykjavík 1982, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" live Brit Awards 1994, "I Remember You", "I'm Hungry", "Iltí Ební", "Jóga", "Kata rokkar", "Leash Called Love", "Leather", "Litla Stúlkan með Eldspýturnar", "Live Singing" live Toronto 1992, "Lok-Lað", "Luftguitar", "Misty" live Reykjavík 1990, "Miðvikudags", "The Modern Things", "Motorcrash", "Motorcycle Mama", "Nail", "Nu Flyver Anton", "Ooops", "Outward Flight (Psalm 323)", "Pagan Poetry", "Pleasure is All Mine", "Pökn (Fyrir Byrjendur)" live Reykjavík 1983, "Polo", "Possibly Maybe" live Union Chapel 1999, "Pump", "Quintessence", "Regina", "Reykjavíkurnætur", "Seru Bubu Seru", "Shoot Him", "Short Term Affair" live Comic Relief 1997, "Sick for Toys", "Síðasta Ég", "Skúli Fógeti", "Söngur Um Ekkert/Söngur um Ekkineitt", "Speed Is the Key", "Sperglar", "Svefn er Allt Sem Þarf", "Sweet Intuition", "There's More to Life Than This" live Vessel, "Thunderbolt", "Tidal Wave", "Traitor", "Venus as a Boy" live Vessel, "Vertebræ by Vertebræ", "Walkabout", "Water", "Whole Lotta Loving to Do" live 1992, "Þórður Sjóari" live Reykjavík 1989)
E♭5 ("Alarm Call", "Allow", "Army of Me" Skunk Anansie version, "Bachelorette", "Bee", "Big Time Sensuality", "Cat", "Charlene", "Cocoon", "Declare Independence", "Enjoy", "Falling", "Family", "Features Creatues", "F***ing in Rhythm & Sorrow", "Greece (Just by the Book)", "Hetero Scum", "Human Behaviour", "Hunter", "Í dansi með þér", "I See Who You Are", "Icelandic Jazz Song" live Reykjavík 1990, "Innocence", "Karvel", "Leather", "Leaving London", "Luktar-Gvendur", "The Modern Things", "Mouth Mantra", "Murder" live Hamburg 1986, "My Favourite Things" from Dancer in the Dark^[2], "No Limit" live Paris 2007, "Ó Borg Mín Borg", "One Day", "Pæklaðar Plómur", "Play Dead", "Pleasure is All Mine", "Possibly Maybe", "Prayer of the Heart", "Pump", "Seagull", "She Was So Beautiful" live Hamburg 1986, "So Broken", "Storm", "Takk", "Venus as a Boy", "Virus", "Vitamin", "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)", "Why" live Union Chapel 1999)
D5 ("5 Years" live Reykjavík 1999, "A Cappella Singing (Ears)" from Vessel, "Aegean (Vials of Wrath)", "Aeroplane", "All the Way Down" live New York 2017, "Amphibian", "Ancestors", "Anna", "Atlantic" live Manchester 1993, "Bella símamær", "Blue Eyed Pop", "Bohemian Rhapsody" live Toronto 1992, "Börn í borg", "Brestir og brak", "Cetacea", "Claimstaker", "Coldsweat", "Come to Me", "The Comet Song", "Cowboy", "Cry Me a River" live Reykjavík 1990, "Crying", "Dark Disco 1", "A Day Called Zero", "Dear Plastic", "Delicious Demon", "Dense Time" session #1, "Deus", "Dragon", "Dream TV", "Drengirnir í Bangkok/Telpurnar í Bangkok", "The Dull Flame of Desire", "An Echo, a Stain", "Ég Veit Ei Hvað Skal Segja", "Flétta", "France (A Mutual Thrill)", "Future Forever", "Get Ekki Sofið", "Gibraltar (Copy Thy Neighbour)", "Gling Gló", "The Green Green Grass of Home", "Happy Nurse", "Hetero Scum", "Hidden Place" live Stockholm 2012, "Holland (Latent)", "Hope", "Hrollur" live Reykjavík 1982, "Human Behaviour", "Hyperballad", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" live Brit Awards 1994, "I Can't Help Loving That Man", "I Miss You", "I See Who You Are", "I'm Hungry", "I've Seen It All", "In the Musicals", "It's in Our Hands", "Íþróttir", "Karvel", "Kata rokkar", "Keep Your Mouth Shut", "Komið", "Lækning", "Leash Called Love", "Like Someone in Love", "Lionsong", "Litla Stúlkan með Eldspýturnar", "Litli tónlistarmaðurinn", "Love Will Tear Us Apart Again" live Reykjavík 2010, "Lucky Night", "Mama", "Mataharí" live Reykjavík 1982, "Misty" live Reykjavík 1990, "Miðvikudags", "Moonbath", "Mother Heroic", "Motorcycle Mama", "Murder" live Hamburg 1986, "Mutant;Faith" live New York 2019, "My Funny Valentine" live Reykjavík 1990, "My Juvenile", "My Spine", "Nótt", "Ooops", "Open the Window and Let the Spirit Fly Free", "Planet", "Pluto", "Pneumonia", "Polo", "Qmart", "Quintessence", "Ruby Baby", "Scary", "Scatterheart", "Seagull", "Seru Bubu Seru", "Skrið", "Smokewell", "So Broken", "Softly" live Spain 2008, "Sokkar", "Sperglar", "The Spire", "Styrjaldarminni", "Submarine", "Surrender", "Sweet Intuition/Sweet Sweet Intuition", "Sweet Jane", "Synchronicity", "Tabula Rasa", "Take Some Petrol Darling", "There's More to Life Than This", "Tondeleyo", "Traitor", "Travessia", "Ungfrú Reykjavík", "Unison", "Unravel" live Riverside Church 2001, "Utopia", "Vitamin", "Walkabout", "World's Collapse", "You Don't Know What Love Is" live Reykjavík 1990, "You Only Live Twice", "You've Been Flirting Again" Flirt is a Promise Mix, "Það sést ekki sætari mey", "Þórður Sjóari" live Reykjavík 1989)
C♯5 ("107 Steps", "A Cappella Elgar Sisters Song", "All is Full of Love" live New York 2003, "Amphibian", "Anyone Who Had a Heart" live Union Chapel 1999, "Arisen My Senses", "Assassin", "Atom Dance", "Bee", "Big Time Sensuality", "Body Memory", "The Boho Dance", "Borgarblús", "Chihuahua", "Claimstaker", "Cocoon", "Cosmogony", "Courtship", "Dancing Queen", "Dark Matter", "Declare Independence", "Dense Time" session #1, "Dismembered", "Downtown" live Union Chapel 1999, "Drek-Lek", "Drukknuð Börn", "Eat the Menu", "Enjoy", "Fa-Fa", "Features Creatures", "Freefall", "Gold", "Greece (Just by the Book)", "Greip og Eplasafi", "Happy Nurse", "Harm of Will", "Headphones", "Hope", "Horizontal", "I Go Humble", "I'm Hungry", "Icelandic Gibberish Techno Trip-Hop Song" live Reykjavík 1990, "Iltí Ební", "Immature" live Cambridge 1998, "Innocence", "Isobel", "It's in Our Hands", "It's Not Up to You", "Jóga", "Lilith", "Luftuguitar", "Man on the Cross", "Mother Heroic", "Motorcrash", "Mouth's Cradle", "Mutual Core", "Nail", "Nótt", "Quicksand", "Pagan Poetry", "Partí", "Pæklaðar Plómur", "Possibly Maybe", "Prayer of the Heart", "Pump", "Regina", "Reykjavíkurnætur", "Scatterheart", "She Was So Beautiful" live Hamburg 1986, "Shoot Him", "Short Term Affair" live Comic Relief 1997, "Skúli Fógeti", "Smokewell", "Sokkar", "Söngull", "Sun in My Mouth", "Surrender", "Takk", "Thunderbolt", "Tidal Wave", "To Touch is to Hurt" live Hamburg 1986, "Travessia", "Untitled Elgar Sisters Demo 3", "Venus as a Boy", "Vertebræ by Vertebræ", "Virus", "Wanderlust", "Where is the Line", "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)", "Whole Lotta Loving to Do" live 1992, "Það sem best er")
C5 ("Alarm Call", "All We Are", "Ancestors", "The Anchor Song", "Anna", "Arisen My Senses", "Army of Me" Skunk Anansie version, "Ástarsaga", "Ástartöfrar", "Atlantic", "Atom Dance", "Atopos", "Aurora", "Bachelorette", "Bath", "Beri-Beri", "Big Dipper", "Bílavísur", "Billy Not Really", "Birthday", "Black Quarterback", "Blissing Me", "Brestir og brak", "Cat", "Cetacea", "Charlene", "Cocoon", "Come to Me", "The Comet Song", "Cover Me", "Critical Mass" live Hamburg 1986, "Crying", "Crystalline", "A Day Called Zero", "Dear Plastic", "Desired Constellation" live Japan 2003, "Deus", "Downtown" live Union Chapel 1999, "Dúkkulísur" live Reykjavík 1982, "The Dull Flame of Desire", "Enjoy", "Falling", "Flétta", "Fossora", "Fungal City", "Future Forever", "The Gate", "Generous Palmstroke" live Paris 2001, "Gloomy Sunday" live Walden Woods 1998, "Gotham Lullaby" live Union Chapel 1999, "Green", "Heirloom", "Her Mother's House", "Hidden Place" live Stockholm 2012, "Hit", "Hollow", "The Homecoming (The Night)", "Human Behaviour", "Hunter", "I Can't Help Loving That Man", "Í dansi með þér", "I Fall in Love Too Easily" live Reykjavík 1990, "I Miss You", "I Remember You", "I See Who You Are", "Icelandic Jazz Song" live Reykjavík 1990, "In the Musicals", "It's in Our Hands", "It's Oh So Quiet", "Karvel", "Komið", "Kríó", "Lækning", "Leaving London", "Lionsong", "Lucky Night", "Luktar-Gvendur", "Lok-Lað", "Með-Tek", "Misty" live Reykjavík 1990, "Moon", "Mouth Mantra", "Moðir" live Glastonbury Festival 1994, "My Funny Valentine" live Reykjavík 1990, "My Juvenile", "My Spine", "Náttúra", "No Limit" live Paris 2007, "Notget", "Nu Flyver Anton", "Ó Borg Mín Borg", "Oceania", "Öll Birtan", "One Day", "Ooops", "Open the Window and Let the Spirit Fly Free", "Pabbi Minn", "Patré", "Play Dead", "Pleasure is All Mine", "Pneumonia", "Sacrifice", "Saint", "Sharing Orb", "Skrið", "Softly" live Spain 2008, "Solstice", "Söngull", "Sorrowful Soil", "The Spire", "Sue Me", "Sweet Jane", "Synchronicity", "Tabula Rasa", "Take Some Petrol Darling", "Tjet", "Top of the World", "Tondeleyo", "Trance", "Triumph of a Heart", "Undo", "Up My Sleeves", "Utopia", "Venus as a Boy", "Violently Happy", "Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu", "Water", "Who Do You Think You Are?" live Union Chapel 1999, "Why" live Union Chapel 1999, "You Don't Know What Love Is" live Reykjavík 1990, "You Only Live Twice", "Younder", "You've Been Flirting Again" Flirt is a Promise Mix, "Það sést ekki sætari mey")

Significant Low Notes:
B3 ("107 Steps", "A Cappella Singing (Ears)" from Vessel, "Aegean (Vials of Wrath)", "Aeroplane", "Afi", "Amphibian", "Anyone Who Had a Heart" live Union Chapel 1999, "Aðeins eina Nótt", "Bath", "Blue Eyed Pop", "The Boho Dance", "Chihuahua", "Courtship", "Critical Mass" live Hamburg 1986, "Dancing Queen", "Dense Time" session #2, "Desired Constellation", "Deus" live Barcelona 1988, "Drengirnir í Bangkok", "Features Creatures", "Flétta", "France (A Mutual Thrill)", "Foot Soldier", "F***ing in Rhythm & Sorrow", "Gibraltar (Copy Thy Neighbour)", "Hidden Place", "Hjá Lygnri Móðu" live Átta Raddir, "Hope", "Hot Meat", "Í Öskjuhlíð/(Öskjuhliðarendi) Homage á Paden Powel", "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" live Brit Awards 1994, "I Remember You", "I Want...", "I've Seen It All", "In the Musicals", "Isobel", "Íþróttir", "Jóga", "Lækning", "Leash Called Love", "Like Someone in Love", "Minun Kultani Kaunis On" live Finland 1989, "Misty" live Reykjavík 1990, "The Modern Things", "Moon", "Mother Heroic", "Motorcrash", "Motorcycle Mama", "Murder" live Hamburg 1986, "My Funny Valentine" live Reykjavík 1990, "Nail", "North", "Nótt", "Nu Flyver Anton", "Ó Borg Mín Borg", "Oður Steinsins", "Patré", "Planet", "Pökn (Fyrir Byrjendur)" live Kukl á Paris 14.9.84, "Polo", "Pump", "Qmart", "Quicksand", "Ruby Baby", "Scary", "Seagull", "Seru Bubu Seru", "She Was So Beautiful" live Hamburg 1986, "Short Term Affair" live Comic Relief 1997, "Sick for Toys", "Síðasta Ég", "Sod Off", "Solstice", "Sonnets/Unrealities XI", "Sperglar", "Stonemilker", "Surrender", "Sweet Intuition", "Sweet Jane", "Telpurnar í Bangkok", "Thunderbolt", "Tjet", "Traitor", "Top of the World", "Unravel", "Utopia", "Vertebræ by Vertebræ", "Virus", "Vökuró", "Walkabout", "Water", "Where is the Line", "Work" live New York 2017, "Yoga", "Það sem best er", "Þórður Sjóari" live Reykjavík 1989)
B♭3 ("107 Steps", "5 Years", "Alarm Call", "All is Full of Love", "All Neon Like", "Allow", "Arisen My Senses", "Army of Me", "Bachelorette" live Eventim Apollo 2016, "Bath", "Bella símamær", "Big Time Sensuality", "Björg", "Black Lake", "Body Memory", "Börnin við Tjörnina", "Charlene", "The Comet Song", "Cosmogony", "Courtship", "Cry Me a River" live Reykjavík 1990, "Declare Independence", "Domestica", "Drek-Lek", "The Dull Flame of Desire", "Falling", "Family", "Fossora", "Freefall", "Fungal City", "Future Forever", "Generous Palmstroke", "Greip og Eplasafi", "Her Mother's House", "History of Touches", "Human Behaviour" live Cambridge 1998, "Hunter", "Hyperballad", "I Can't Help Loving That Man", "I See Who You Are", "Icelandic Jazz Song" live Reykjavík 1990, "It's Oh So Quiet", "Harm of Will", "Karvel", "Komið", "Lækning", "Lilith", "Lionsong", "Litli tónlistarmaðurinn", "Luktar-Gvendur", "Mama", "Með-Tek", "Mouth Mantra", "Mouth's Cradle", "Mutant;Faith" live New York 2019, "Mutual Core", "New World", "North", "One Day" live MTV Unplugged, "Ovule", "Pabbi Minn", "Play Dead", "Possibly Maybe", "So Broken", "Sokkar", "Sun in My Mouth", "Tondeleyo", "Trance", "Triumph of a Heart", "Unison", "Victimhood", "Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu", "Wanderlust", "Who Do You Think You Are?" live Union Chapel 1999, "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)", "Why" live Union Chapel 1999, "You Only Live Twice")
A3 ("Afi", "All We Are", "Arisen My Senses" live All Points East 2018, "Ástartöfrar", "Aurora", "Bella símamær", "Beri-Beri", "Bílavísur", "Blissing Me", "Börnin við Tjörnina", "Brestir og brak", "Cetacea", "Claimstaker", "Come to Me", "Cover Me", "Crying", "Downtown" live Union Chapel 1999, "The Dull Flame of Desire", "Ég Veit Ei Hvað Skal Segja", "Fa-Fa", "Features Creatures", "Flétta", "Get Ekki Sofið", "Gibraltar (Copy Thy Neighbour)", "Gling Gló", "The Green Green Grass of Home", "Happy Nurse", "Headphones", "Hidden Place", "Hit", "Hope", "I Fall in Love Too Easily" live Reykjavík 1990, "I Go Humble", "I Want...", "I've Seen It All", "Iltí Ební", "Íþróttir", "Isobel", "Jólakötturinn", "Kata rokkar", "Kríó", "Like Someone in Love", "Litli tónlistarmaðurinn", "Love Will Tear Us Apart Again" live Reykjavík 2010, "Með-Tek", "Misty" live Reykjavík 1990, "My Funny Valentine" live Reykjavík 1990, "My Juvenile", "Notget", Öll Birtan", "On and Ever Onward", "Ooops", "Ottar", "Outward Flight (Psalm 323)", "Pagan Poetry", "Pneumonia", "Possibly Maybe" live Björk: Biophilia Live, "Prayer of the Heart", "Quicksand", "Sacrifice", "Sharing Orb", "Short Term Affair" live Comic Relief 1997, "Söngull", "Sonnets/Unrealities XI", "Stonemilker", "Storm", "Submarine", "Sue Me", "Sun in My Mouth" live New York 2015, "Sweet Intuition/Sweet Sweet Intuition", "There's More to Life Than This", "Tjet", "Travessia", "Triumph of a Heart", "Verandi", "Violently Happy", "Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu", "Vökuró", "Wanderlust", "You Don't Know What Love Is" live Reykjavík 1990, "Þórður Sjóari" live Reykjavík 1989^[2])
G♯3 ("A Cappella Elgar Sisters Song", "All is Full of Love" live Brooklyn 2015, "Atom Dance", "Cocoon", "Courtship", "Cover Me" Plaid Mix, "Dancing Queen", "Dark Matter", "Declare Independence", "Domestica", "Earth Intruders", "Fagurt Er í Fjörðum", "Features Creatues", "Foot Soldier", "Fossora", "Generous Palmstroke", "History of Touches", "It's Not Up to You", "Jóga", "Jólasveinar...How the Juice Stole Christmas", "Lilith", "Mouth's Cradle", "Mouth Mantra", "Mutual Core", "My Snare/Nature is Ancient", "My Favourite Things" from Dancer in the Dark^[1], "My Funny Valentine" live Reykjavík 1990, "The Next to Last Song" from Dancer in the Dark, "New World", "Oceania", "Prayer of the Heart", "Scatterheart", "Sod Off", "Sokkar", "Sorrowful Soil", "Travessia", "Untitled Elgar Sisters Demo 3", "Virus", "Where is the Line", "Who Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)", "Why" live Union Chapel 1999)
G3 ("5 Years", "Allow", "Ancestress", "Ástartöfrar", "Aurora" live Mexico 2017, "Bella símamær", "Bílavísur", "Blissing Me", "Brestir og brak", "Bohemian Rhapsody" live Toronto 1992, "Cetacea", "Cry Me a River" live Reykjavík 1990, "Earth Intruders", "Ég Veit Ei Hvað Skal Segja", "Family", "The Gate", "Get Ekki Sofið", "Gloomy Sunday" live Walden Woods 1998, "Gotham Lullaby" live Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2002, "Hyperballad" live Governors Ball Music Festival 2015, "I Can't Help Loving That Man", "I See Who You Are", "Komið", "Lionsong", "Misty" live Reykjavík 1990, "Moon" live Berlin 2013, "My Favourite Things" from Dancer in the Dark^[2], "My Juvenile", "My Snare/Nature is Ancient", "Nu Flyver Anton", "On and Ever Onward", "Pneumonia", "Qmart", "Sacrifice", "Sharing Orb", "Show Me Forgiveness", "Söngull", "Sue Me", "Synchronicity", "Tabula Rasa", "Top of the World", "Tondeleyo", "Unison", "You Only Live Twice")
F♯3 ("Desired Constellation", "Flétta", "Hollow", "I've Seen it All" live Royal Albert Hall 2016, "Immature", "Isobel", "Jólasveinar...How the Juice Stole Christmas", "Losss", "The Next to Last Song" from Dancer in the Dark, "Quicksand", "Scatterheart", "Show Me Forgiveness" live Maida Vale 2004, "Untitled Elgar Sisters Demo 3", "Vertebræ by Vertebræ")
F3 ("5 Years", "Fungal City", "Generous Palmstroke", "Gloomy Sunday" live Walden Woods 1998)
E3 ("5 Years" live Governors Ball Music Festival 2015, "Gotham Lullaby" live Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2002)
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• Blue marks high falsetto or whistle register notes.
• Bold marks notes or passages that are particularly outstanding (relative to the singer).
• Italics mark non-melodic notes.
• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.

Arguably Iceland's finest export, Björk Guðmundsdóttir - known mononymously as Björk - is an Icelandic singer-songwriter. She began her career as the lead singer of numerous punk bands, the most famous of which was The Sugarcubes, with single "Birthday" becoming popular. Björk then broke off on her own solo career, recording successful albums like the eclectic Debut, the immensely bold and beautiful Homogenic and the introverted, intimate Vespertine. A relentlessly creative force who consistently defies musical categorisation, Björk still stands today as one of the most groundbreaking influential musicians of all time.

Throughout her constant changes in direction, Björk's voice remains the most compelling feature of her music. Being a particularly light soprano, her voice could be highlighted as unusual for a number of reasons, with her Icelandic diction, her unusual phrasing and her ethereal tone making her voice stand out. Her singing typically stays within the fourth and fifth octaves; her upper register in particular is very strong, as Björk is capable of soaring, passionate belts ("Crying", "Human Behaviour", "Pagan Poetry") and blissful soft head voice notes ("The Anchor Song", "Birthday", "Cocoon"). Her lower register is weaker (sounding particularly dark as high as C4), though Björk usually tends to avoid singing particularly low anyway, placing more emphasis on her mid-range and higher notes. While in recent years nodules may have caused Björk to lose some of her iconic upper range, she nevertheless still stands out as an idiosyncratic icon, with her distinct voice frequently being held up as one of the greatest of all time.

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{A Few Examples of Her Voice}
Great early career performance.


Great mid-career performance.


Great later career performance.

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{Questionable Notes}
E8 ("Gotham Lullaby" live Union Chapel 1999^[1])
C♯8 ("It's Oh So Quiet" live Union Chapel 1999^[1])
C8 ("The Modern Things"^[1], "Qmart"^[1])
B7 ("Blue Eyed Pop"^[1])
B♭7 ("It's Oh So Quiet" live The Tonight Show with Jay Leno^[1], "So Broken" live Festival Internacional de Benicàssim 1998^[1])
G♯7 ("Pökn (Fyrir Byrjendur)" live Kukl á Paris 14.9.84^[1])
F♯7 ("Bachelorette" live Voltaïc^[1], "Telpurnar í Bangkok"^[1])
C♯7 ("I Miss You"^[2])
C7 ("So Broken"^[2])
B6 ("Delicious Demon"^[1])
B♭6 ("Take Some Petrol Darling"^[1])
A6 ("Dragon"^[2], "Motorcycle Mama"^[2], "Murder" live Hamburg 1986^[1])
G♯6 ("Pluto"^[2], "Sokkar"^[2])
G6 ("Iltí Ební"^[1], "It's Oh So Quiet" live Reykjavík 2008^[2], "Kata rokkar"^[2])
D6 ("Army of Me" Skunk Anansie version^[2], "Scatterheart"^[3])
C♯6 ("Blue Eyed Pop"^[2], "Holland (Latent)"^[2])
C6 ("Dear Plastic"^[2], "Hetero Scum"^[2])
B5 ("F***ing in Rhythm & Sorrow" [2], "Reykjavíkurnætur"^[2])
B♭5 ("In the Musicals"^[2])
A5 ("Tidal Wave"^[2])
G♯5 ("Crying" live Aarhus 1993^[3])
F5 ("Cat"^[2])
E3 ("Pluto"^[3])
D3 ("Dark Matter"^[3])
C♯3 ("Arisen My Senses"^[3], "Chihuahua"^[3])
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1. Questionable control and representativeness..
2. Questionable exclamations.
3. Questionable identity or origin.
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Questionable notes are any notes of questionable significance. In short, this spoiler acknowledges notes that I am aware exist, but do not want to contribute to the singer's range. These involve (but are not limited to) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.

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{Pre-Pubescent Notes}
Significant High Notes:
E5 ("Alta Mira", "Himnaför", "My Darling is Beautiful")
E♭5 ("I Love to Love", "Óliver")
D5 ("Álfur Út Úr Hól (The Fool on the Hill)", "Arabadrengurinn (The Arab Boy)", "Búkolla (Your Kiss Is Sweet)", "Fúsi Hreindýr", "Himnaför")
C♯5 ("Álfur Út Úr Hól (The Fool on the Hill)", "I Love to Love", "Óliver")
C5 ("Alta Mira", "My Darling is Beautiful")

Significant Low Notes
C4 ("Alta Mira", "Himnaför")
B3 ("Bænin (Christopher Robin)", "Búkolla (Your Kiss Is Sweet)")
B♭3 ("Himnaför", "Óliver")
A3 ("Arabadrengurinn (The Arab Boy)", "Bænin (Christopher Robin)")

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{Notewatching Credits & Other Info}
Alex61
Solo:
Björk (1977): A3 – E5 (pre-pubescent)
Debut (1993): A3 – G5
Post (1995): F♯3 – D6
Homogenic (1997): F3 – E5
Vespertine (2001): G3 – F♯5
Medúlla (2004): F♯3 – F5
Volta (2007): F♯3 – F5
Biophilia (2011): F♯3 – F♯5
Vulnicura (2015): F♯3 – F5
Utopia (2017): F♯3 – G5
Fossora (2022): F3 – F5

Soundtracks:
Selmasongs (2000): F♯3 – G5
Drawing Restraint 9 (2005): G3 – G♯5

Tappi Tíkarrass:
Miranda (1983): G3 – G♯5

Kukl:
The Eye (1984): B3 – B5
Holidays in Europe (The Naughty Nought) (1986): A3 – D6

The Sugarcubes:
Life's Too Good (1988): A3 – D6
Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! (1989): B3 – D6
Stick Around for Joy (1992): A3 – D6

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar:
Gling-Gló (1990): G3 – A5

Unspecified live performances can be found here.

Notewatching of other performances not listed above done by Alex61. Thanks to Baronessa and galaxyseal for helping out a lot with this!

[liesas]

Hi! I saw your post on r/bjork and totally loved this thread! Have you heard her new performance at Arca's show? I think she sang some really good high notes there.

[Alex61]

Thanks thanks thanks! I haven't actually, do you have a link? :P

[liesas]

youtu.be/a7JI8KsaGdU unfortunately there isn't a full video of it, so here you go

[downcastlashes]

Does anyone know where I can find a recording of Gotham Lullaby at Union Chapel?

[luxiouskorsay]

Fungal city from 'Fossora' has an F3

[wilf]

who up bjorking they shit

[mushymarionette]

Oct 20, 2024 7:09:30 GMT wilf said:

who up bjorking they shit

Every morning, every night - björk that shit hard folks!

[amadeusd]

“Bring that Björk in!” - Zach de la Rocha