ABBA - Agnetha Fältskog

"Agnetha Fältskog was born in 1950 in the Swedish city Jönköping. She is best known as a member of pop sensation ABBA.

Her singing career started as lead singer in a dance band (a typical swedish type of music that was very popular in the 60s-70s) named Bernt Enghardt band. In 1968 she signed a contract as a solo artist and became very popular with several hits. For several years she was a top selling artist in Sweden.

In 1969 she met a new man who would mean a lot also for her musical career, Björn Ulvaeus. Björn, having successes as well, teamed up with another popular Swedish artist, Benny Andersson. With Benny’s girlfriend Annifrid Lyngstad, who also had been successful on her own, all four sometimes teamed up as a group called Festfolket, while they all still were working on their solo careers.

For Agnetha the solo career continued with a new successful album, Som Jag Är, and also the role as Mary Magdalene in the Swedish stage version of Jesus Christ Super Star.

From around 1973 the focus was on the group Björn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida and around 1973-74, they changed their name to ABBA. Agnetha was a full time member of this Swedish super group ABBA in the 70s and early 80s. However it became increasingly difficult for Agnetha to combine the roles of a mother and successful pop artist and eventually this lead to a divorce from Björn and the breakup of ABBA in 1983.

Since then, Agnetha has released several albums with some success. During the 80s she had solo hits with the singles “The Heat Is On”, “Can’t Shake Loose”, “The Way You Are”, “The Last Time” and “I Won’t Let You Go”.

2004 became a very productive year. First the compilation The First Years 1967-1979 that sums up her own career and then the new album My Colouring Book that was successful in Sweden. The singles “If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind” and “When You Walk In The Room” became big hits.

She has recorded duets with artists such as Peter Cetera, Tomas Ledin and Ola Håkansson."

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