Abba Biography of group members

Let's talk about each of them. Agneta Feltskog was born in the Swedish city of Jencheping on April 5. From a young age, she strove for music and show business, and she wrote the first song about two small trolls at the age of six. This was followed by participation in the church choir, the lessons of the game on the piano and the unfinished school education - to touch people with their own voice, to be able to solve chemical equations.

The idea turned out to be quite successful: already in the fall of the year at the age of 17, the artist signed a contract with Cupol Records and began to release music. In M, Glory helped the agnet get the role of Mary Magdalenna in the Swedish version of the production of Rock Opera "Jesus Christ-Superstar." In a word, with such a resume in a promising pop collection, it would definitely come by the way.

The childhood of "brown -haired ABBA" has passed much more difficult: it was not up to songs. She was born on November 15 in a small village in North Norway. Her mother was local, but her father was a German occupier. When he returned to Germany, his mother grabbed the baby Annie-Fried and fled to her and her mother to Sweden away from possible repression.

The war years have catastrophically affected her health: the poor thing died at the age of 21 after the liver failure. Her grandmother raised the Anni-Fried: it was she who began to sing old Norwegian songs to the baby and instilled in such a love of music. At 22, she won the Swedish talent contest and received the first professional contract. And at the same time, a ticket to the musical industry, where she met with future colleagues in Abba.

Benny Andersson even before the eminent team knew what popularity is. He was born in Stockholm on December 16th. When the boy was six years old, grandparents bought him an accordion and began to instill a love for traditional Swedish music to his grandson. At 10 he independently mastered the piano, and at 15 he left school and began to perform in youth clubs. At the age of 18, he became a member of the HEP Stars, who were called the Swedish Beatles.

They did not perform their music, but this took a little fan. At some point, Benny, the keyboard player, began to write his own tracks. Bjorn Ulveus was born on April 25, also had his own team, The Hootenanny Singer, performing Folk Skiffle: here the musician sang and played on the guitar. His group used to intersect with Hep Stars, and acquaintance with Benny soon grew into a creative union.

Both teams broke up to MU, and our heroes began to include to the idea of ​​gathering their own. Unlike his future ABBA colleagues, Bjorn managed to unlearn the “Business and Law” at Lunda University. Perhaps the ABBA phenomenon would be much less significant if not one circumstance: two couples in love played in the team at once. Benny and Anni-Fried were in no hurry to marry, but loved each other up to a year.

Bjorn and Agneta got married in m, but also divorced m. True, we are still far away. Bjorn Ulveus and Benny Andersson already worked on a joint plate, and the idea to record the votes of wives for the sub -shock seemed to them quite interesting. He was invented by Stig Anderson, the manager of the male half of the quartet. The logo with two “B”, deployed against each other, developed the rune Sederquist.

He became the author of covers for most of the ABBA records. Having acquired design and memorable name, the musicians prepared to conquer the world. In m, they decided to take part in the selection for Eurovision and chose for this a fun, close to the then popular Glam Roko song Waterloo. A month before the competition, they released an album with the exact same name. A sudden victory revealed dozens of doors to a young group, the existence of which they did not even know, and brought very popularity not only in their homeland, but also in many other countries.

In Sweden, their second plate kept at the top of the chart for 12 weeks, in the UK took place. This, of course, is not a peak, but not a single European group that participated in Eurovision, had previously achieved even such a modest success in the foggy Albion. In the United States, the sales situation was more sad, but critics met the record with amazing warmth and cordiality.

Honey, Honey, the second single, released in the same year, was waiting for a similar success. ABBA slowly but surely became the main European hit on its own. As for Waterloo, then after 50 years she became the best song in the history of the competition. Officially, according to the people. Anyone could take part in the vote. Despite this, the first European tour did not set.

Tickets were sold so badly that concerts in some countries, for example in Switzerland, had to be canceled. The only place where they were taken with great cordiality, surprisingly, was Scandinavia. In the UK, the record was taken by the place of the general chart. SOS Lid Single allowed the musicians for the first time to burst into the charts of France, as well as to take high positions in other European countries.

Successes, like the numbers of ABBA on their bank accounts, grew not by day, but by the clock.Their super popular compositions of Mamma Mia yes, the same one, in honor of which they even named the musical by the songs of ABBA, Fernando single from the collection of the best hits GO and Money Money Money from the longplay of Arrival GO. The musicians also set several records: for example, the Fernando single has become the most commercially successful release in the history of Australia.

The record held up to a year: Ed Shiran beat it. All these achievements allowed ABBA to take a chance and go on a big tour. They planned to visit different cities in Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, Australia and other countries. The demand for tickets was phenomenal: 3.5 million people wanted to purchase them. It would seem that everything goes the best way, when suddenly a boom: news about the divorce of Bjorn and Agenet is leaking into the press.

Fans, of course, contributed: what will happen to ABBA? The musicians swore that nothing, and even three more albums were released. Naturally, they were commercially successful; Concerts for concerts within the framework of the world tour were steadily scattered like hot pies. Suddenly - again the sad news. In the yard, Benny and Annie-Fried are also divorced. It was useless to be deceived and fans reconciled with the sad news of the tragic finale of a beautiful fairy tale about love for a person and music.

The group still tried to work together: discussing the album and even prepared for small tour. However, the studio work of GO was unsuccessful. This was not officially announced, in an interview the musicians only joked: who are we all like without our lady? The initials of Brigitte Bardo? The musical was nominated for Tony and Grammy - but alas, he did not receive either one or the other.

Annie Fried and Agneta took up solo careers. In M, Agneta left the stage to focus on mental health: both of her parents died with a break of one year. Over the 17 years of her absence, she added to yoga, astrology and riding, and also survived toxic relationships and released an autobiography. In M, the artist finally introduced the world to the album My Coloring Book, which consisted of the Cavers for songs x.

After that, her affairs went uphill. In the personal life of Anni-Fried for the time being, everything was somewhat more fun. In M, the artist moved to Switzerland to her partner - Prince Henry Rutszo Roys. Going to marry him, she adopted his title, thus becoming a princess. Neither her nor he had a chance to rule: the principality of the Roys was abolished even in M, and the titles remained as a pleasant memory.

Alas, this fairy tale did not last long. In m from the injuries received in the car accident, the summer daughter Anni-Frid Ann Litte died, her husband died a year later from the lymphoma. The singer was able to return to the stage only by the year, and in M ​​began to meet with the British peer Henry Smith. Albums-compilations of the best tracks continued to be released, and they were sold quite well.

The main achievement of Benny, up to the first Reunion, was the large-scale folk-meme “Christina from Duvemala”, performed exclusively in Swedish. Bjorn acted as a co -producer. In the Swedish theaters, he walked over the next five years. In M Benny he collected his own orchestra and released five albums with them. In M, the first real reunion of ABBA took place. Old friends met at the premiere of the film "Mamma Mia", his script was based on a musical on the songs of the team.

In an interview at the event of Benny and Bjorn, they claimed that they were not going to reunite and even much money would not be convinced. In the mfartet, a briefly united for the sake of a good deed-the solemn introduction of himself into the Hall of Glory of Rock and Roll. And in M ​​reunited for good to recording new music. The group was going to launch a concert tour with the participation of the Abbatar - the holographic versions of themselves.

They promised to release fresh songs from a year, but they saw the light only in M ​​in the Voyage album. After it, the public finally introduced the Abbatar. What awaits ABBA further? As before, there are no exact predictions. Everything is possible.