Saturday, May 26, 2007

Classic ABBA


Well now that I've finished posting bios of all 4 members of ABBA, I thought it would be a good a idea to post music videos of each of the different members and their early-pre-abba music groups. So I'm going to start this off with the group " The Hootenanny Singers ", which was the first music group Bjorn was a main member of. Here are 2 music videos from The Hootenanny Singers.




Saturday, May 19, 2007

Benny Andersson


Benny Bror Goran Andersson was born on December 16, 1946 in Stockholm, Sweden. Both his father & his grandfather inherited the music gene to him, Benny was introduced to the accordion at very early age. With music lessons, Benny was to basically able to pick up any type of instrument and be able to play it. After he finished high school, he joined the Swedish beat group " The Hep Stars ". Which broke up in the late 60's. During one of the Hep Stars' tours, Benny met the soon-to-be-famous Bjorn Ulvaeus. Soon after, their girlfriends Anni-Frid Lyngstad & Agnetha Faltskog joined them to try to make it big in the music business. Then around 1973, they formed the popular Swedish pop group " ABBA ". After ABBA broke up in 82, Benny & Bjorn wrote the music for Tim Rice's " Chess ". In 2002, he was appointed Professor by the Swedish gov. He currently lives in Sweden with his wife of 26 yrs., Mona Norklit.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Hovas Vittne

Even though this ABBA song was never recorded in English( the title translates to Jehovah's Witness ), the song was written and performed in honor of their manager Stig Anderson. Who was celebrating his 50 birthday in 1981. Unfortunately Stig Anderson died of a heart attack on September 12, 1997 at the age of 66. Anyway here's the link... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsAw6RIXaqE . I hope you like it.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

One of Us

In my opinion I think this song is a good song to end the school year with. Specialy if you're in highschool( like I am ).lol Well anyway, this song is from the album " The Visitors " from 1981. I hope you guys like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orO9E7fC0mo

Anni-Frid Lyngstad


Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad was born in Narvik, Norway on November 15, 1945. Around the end of WW2, her mother( Synni Lyngstad ) took her family to Torshalla, Sweden to escape the post-war retributions dished out to " collaborators ". When Anni-Frid was only 2 yrs. old, her mother died. Soon after, her grandmother became responsible for taking care of her. In 1957, at the age of 13, she started her show business. Which was at a Red Cross charity event. When she was 15, she met/ soon after married Ragnar Fredriksson. She shortly became pregnant with her first son, Hans. Which at the time she was only 16 yrs. old. The next child she had with him was her daughter Liselotte. Since she wasn't going to give up her career, they got a divorce. Anni-Frid ended up leaving her children with him & sadly also leaving her grandmother as well. Soon after she moved to Stockholm she met her second husband Benny Andersson, for which they soon became romantically involved. Sometime after they'd met Bjorn and Agnetha, all four soon became the world famous group ABBA. In 1981, Benny and Anni-Frid divorced after being a couple for around 12 yrs. Her last husband Ruzzo Reuss died in 1999 after being married to her for 7 years. Her daughter Liselotte died in a car crash in 1997. Her only grandson is Jonathan. She now lives in Frilbourg, Sweden.