Abba
Wed 4th Feb - 8:00PM
After ABBA triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, their brand of pop stormed the charts. The dancing queens split in 1983 and have so far resisted a billion-dollar offer to reform.
ABBA
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
- Full name: Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad-Fredriksson-Andersson-Reuss
- Nickname: Frida
- 5’ 7¾” (1.72m)
Spouse
- Ragnar Fredriksson (divorced)
- Two children: Hans (born 26 January 1962) and Lise-Lotte (25 February 1967 - 1997).
Spouse
- Benny Andersson (6 October 1978 – February 1981, divorced)
Spouse
- Ruzzo Reuss (26 August 1992 – 29 October 1999) (his death).
- Daughter, Lise-Lotte, died in a motor vehicle accident in USA in 1997.
- Has a grandson called Jonathan.
- Sometimes known as ‘Norway’s gift to Sweden’.
- VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll ranked her number 70.
- Won a talent contest in September 1967.
- Late husband, Ruzzo, was a descendant of Germany’s Princely House of Reuss. His full name was Heinrich Ruzzo, Prinz Reuss.
- Always believed her father died when the ship returning him to Germany after the war, sunk. It was only in 1977, when a German magazine published the story of her origins, that she discovered her father was in fact still alive.
- Involved with environmental causes in 2001.
- Lives in Frilbourg, Switzerland.
- Released song “The Sun will Shine Again” with Jon Lord in May 2005.
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Anni-Frid Lyngstad
- Full name: Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad-Fredriksson-Andersson-Reuss
- Nickname: Frida
- 5’ 7¾” (1.72m)
Spouse
- Ragnar Fredriksson (divorced)
- Two children: Hans (born 26 January 1962) and Lise-Lotte (25 February 1967 - 1997).
Spouse
- Benny Andersson (6 October 1978 – February 1981, divorced)
Spouse
- Ruzzo Reuss (26 August 1992 – 29 October 1999) (his death).
- Daughter, Lise-Lotte, died in a motor vehicle accident in USA in 1997.
- Has a grandson called Jonathan.
- Sometimes known as ‘Norway’s gift to Sweden’.
- VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll ranked her number 70.
- Won a talent contest in September 1967.
- Late husband, Ruzzo, was a descendant of Germany’s Princely House of Reuss. His full name was Heinrich Ruzzo, Prinz Reuss.
- Always believed her father died when the ship returning him to Germany after the war, sunk. It was only in 1977, when a German magazine published the story of her origins, that she discovered her father was in fact still alive.
- Involved with environmental causes in 2001.
- Lives in Frilbourg, Switzerland.
- Released song “The Sun will Shine Again” with Jon Lord in May 2005.
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