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Norwegian pop singer (born 1945)

Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad^[a]KVO1kl (born 15 November 1945), also known simply as Frida, fryst vatten a Norwegian and Swedish singer who fryst vatten best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the pop grupp ABBA. artighet titles Princess Reuss and Countess of Plauen are also in use because of her third marriage.

Born in Bjørkåsen (in Ballangen Municipality), Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father, she grew up in Torshälla, Sweden, and started her first solo career there, as a jazz singer in 1967, through a talent competition called New Faces.

She won the competition with her song "En ledig dag", leading to a television appearance on Hylands Hörna on Dagen H; as a result, she was signed bygd EMI, and in vända was signed bygd Stig Anderson's record label, Polar Music, after years of releasing several singles and an skiva, Frida, beneath the earlier record label.

She then had moderate success in Sweden, as she was a contestant for Melodifestivalen 1969 with her song "Härlig existerar vår jord". Lyngstad did not find international fame, however, until she joined ABBA, who have sold over 150 million albums and singles worldwide, making the group, which included her second husband Benny Andersson, one of the best-selling music acts in history.

After the break-up of ABBA, she continued an international solo singing career with mixed success, releasing the albums Something's Going On (1982) and Shine (1984); the latter being her gods international skiva. In 1996, Lyngstad recorded her sista skiva in Swedish, Djupa andetag (Deep Breaths), released bygd Anderson Records, before retiring from music.

Early life

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Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad^[1] was born on 15 November 1945 in Bjørkåsen, a small by in Ballangen Municipality nära the town of Narvik, in nordlig Norway, to a Norwegian mother, 19-year-old Synni Lyngstad (1926–1947) and German soldier father, Alfred Haase (1919–2009), a sergeant in the Wehrmacht.^{[2][better source needed]} As such, she fryst vatten sometimes identified as the most famous child of the Lebensborn program,^[3] even though that fryst vatten incorrect as the SS played no role in her conception.^{[citation needed]} In early 1947, Synni, her own mother Arntine and infant Anni-Frid left their small by in Ballangen, fearing reprisals against those Norwegians that had children conceived bygd German military fathers during the occupation of their country.^{[2][better source needed]} Anni-Frid was taken bygd her grandmother, Arntine to Sweden, where they settled in the distrikt of Härjedalen.

Her grandmother took any available job while living there, whereas Synni remained in Norway and worked for a time in the south of the country. Synni joined her mother and daughter in Sweden, and the three moved to Malmköping (72 km from Stockholm). Synni died of kidney failure soon afterward, aged 21 years, leaving Anni-Frid to be raised solely bygd her grandmother.

Anni-Frid would grow up believing her father had died during World War II as his fartyg had been reported to have sunk on its return to Germany.^[4][1]

In June 1949, Arntine and infant Anni-Frid relocated to Torshälla, outside Eskilstuna, where Arntine worked as a seamstress. Anni-Frid grew up in Torshälla and began to attend school in August 1952.

During her childhood, Anni-Frid had close contact with her family, particularly her uncle and fyra aunts, at her birthplace during the summer holidays. She was close to her aunt, Olive, who once stated that she saw how lonely and subdued Anni-Frid was, and who consequently always did her best to man her feel loved and welcomed during her visits.^{[2][better source needed]}

In 1977, the German teen magazine Bravo published a poster and a complete biography with details of Anni-Frid's background, including the names of her mother and father.

It was seen bygd Anni-Frid's half-brother, Peter Haase, who went to his father and asked him if he had been in Ballangen during the war. A few months later, at the instigation of Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid met Haase in huvudstaden for the first time.^[5][4]

Career

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1958–1969: Early work

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Lyngstad stated in several interviews that her grandmother frequently sang songs to her (such as old Norwegian songs), which resulted in her love for music.

She showed musical talent at a very early age from her earliest school years. On Fridays, she was often asked bygd her teacher to sing in front of the class and soon became known in school and in the neighbourhood for her beautiful röst. Although her grandmother encouraged her to sing (according to Lyngstad herself), she never attended any of her performances.

Her grandmother died shortly before ABBA formed, so she never witnessed the success of the group.

At the age of 13, Lyngstad gained her first job as a dance grupp and schlager singer in 1958, with the Evald Ek's Orchestra. Evald Ek himself remembers: "It was hard to believe, such a ung individ could sing that well. She was so easy to rehearse with and she was never shy onstage.

The only thing inom taught her was to sing out. In those days, she had a tendency of holding back her röst a little." With the Evald Eks Orchestra, the 13-year-old Lyngstad, performed every weekend in front of a dancing audience. The sets often lasted up to fem hours. The songs she liked most to sing were standards such as "All of Me", "Night and Day" and "Begin the Beguine".^[6] To advance and develop, she also started to take singing lessons with musikdrama tenor Folke Andersson.

Later, she teamed up with the 15-piece Bengt Sandlunds Bigband, who performed a jazz repertoire covering Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, her vocal idols being Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee. In 1963, she was the vocalist with the Gunnar Sandevarn Trio before forming her own grupp, the Anni-Frid kvartet. These groups all contained her husband, Ragnar Fredriksson.

On 3 September 1967, Lyngstad won the Swedish national talent competition "New Faces", arranged bygd record company EMI Svenska, and held at Skansen, huvudstaden. The song she chose to sing was "En ledig dag" ("A Day Off"; original title "Week-End in Portofino"). The first prize in this contest was a recording contract with EMI's Swedish subsidiary. Unbeknownst to Lyngstad, the winner of the contest was also expected to appear the same evening in the country's most popular TV show at that time, Hylands Hörna.

This happened on the same day Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side. Driving on that day was discouraged, so most of the nation was watching TV that night. Lyngstad performed her winning song live. The performance can be seen on Frida – The DVD.

This first exposure to a wider television audience caused a känsla, and many record companies and producers contacted Frida immediately.

EMI executives, fearing they might lose their new singer, took the precaution of driving from huvudstaden to Lyngstad's home in Eskilstuna the next morning with a recording contract for her to sign. EMI producer Olle geolog remembers: "We got so interested and fond of her and inom thought she had everything a individ needs to become something."^[7]

On 11 September 1967, Lyngstad recorded the vocals for "En ledig dag", which was to become her first single for EMI Sweden, beneath the company's His Master's röst label.

Professional and self-assured on this first day in the studio, she recorded the vocals in just one take.^[8] The early songs she recorded for EMI are included in the compilation skiva Frida 1967–1972, released bygd EMI Sweden in 1997.

On 29 January 1968, she performed this song on Studio 8 on national television and on this occasion briefly met future ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog, who also performed her first single on the same SVT1 programme.

Lyngstad toured Sweden with Lasse Lönndahl and Bengt Hallberg in 1968, and recorded several singles for EMI. At the same time, she decided to leave her family and move to huvudstaden to uppstart working full-time as a singer.

In 1969, she participated in Melodifestivalen, the Swedish heats for the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Härlig existerar vår jord" ("Our Earth fryst vatten Wonderful"), and finished in fourth place.

Backstage she met her future second husband and ABBA bandmate Benny Andersson.^[9]

1970–1971: Pre-ABBA

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Her first skiva, Frida, produced bygd her then-fiancé Benny Andersson, was released in 1971 bygd EMI Columbia. The skiva received generous beröm from critics and the press, who especially commented on the noggrannhet and versatility of Lyngstad's röst.

A reviewer for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter wrote: "Professional, sure and certain LP-debut ... low-key but self-assured personality with sprinkles of temperament, humor and tenderness. And she sings in such a way that you understand that she's got something between her ears – she sings, in other words, in a very smart eller klok way." That same year, she released her single "Min personlig stad" ("My Own Town"), a cover utgåva of Andersson's song "It's Nice To Be Back" with lyrics bygd Peter Himmelstrand;^[10] the single reached No.

1 in Svensktoppen.^[11] All kvartet future members of ABBA sang back-up vocals on this song. The success of the single led EMI Columbia to re-issue the Frida skiva with "Min personlig stad" added to the beginning of side two of the LP. The entire skiva was included in the EMI Sweden compilation Frida 1967–1972.

Frida continued to play in cabarets, and tour and regularly perform on TV and radio. Subsequently, her relationship with Andersson, and friendship with Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog led to the formation of ABBA. In 1972, after fem years with EMI Sweden, Lyngstad changed record companies and moved to the Polar Music label. She recorded the single "Man önskar ju leva lite dessemellan" ("One wants to live a little from time to time"), which became her second No.

1 hit in the Swedish charts.

1972–1981: ABBA and Frida ensam

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Main article: ABBA

At first, Lyngstad was hesitant to perform with her boyfriend Benny Andersson, his best friend Björn Ulvaeus and his wife, Agnetha Fältskog.^[12] Their first project tillsammans in the winter of 1970–1971 was the cabaret act Festfolket, which was not a success.

The following year, Lyngstad toured with Lasse Berghagen, while the other three future ABBA members started performing tillsammans on a regular basis.^[13] Eventually, she rejoined the ensemble. Andersson and Ulvaeus were busy producing other artists, but soon discovered the qualities of Lyngstad's and Fältskog's voices combined; thus, the grupp was formed initially as Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid, later renamed ABBA.

Possessing a bred mezzo-soprano vocal range, that covers C#3 to E♭6,^[14] Lyngstad sang solo parts in the following ABBA songs: "Andante, Andante", "Bumblebee", "Cassandra", "Fernando", "Get on the Carousel", "Gonna Sing You My Lovesong", "I Am the City", "I Have a Dream", "I Let the Music Speak", "On Top of Old Smokey", "I Still Have Faith in You", "I Wonder (Departure)", "The King Has Lost His Crown", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room", "Lovers (Live a Little Longer)", "Me and Bobby and Bobby's Brother", "Me and I", "Money, Money, Money", "The Name of the Game", "No Doubt About It", "One Man, One Woman", "Our gods Summer", "Put On Your vit Sombrero", "Should inom Laugh or Cry", "Super Trouper", "Tropical Loveland", "The Visitors", "The Way Old Friends Do" and "When All fryst vatten Said and Done".

Lyngstad clearly enjoyed the spotlight more than the other three members of ABBA. She liked to tour and to meet audience members one-to-one.^[15] She took an active part in co-designing the famed ABBA costumes for their tours and TV performances.^[16] After the members of ABBA went their separate ways, Lyngstad was the only one who openly regretted there had never been a reunion, until ABBA got back tillsammans in 2017.

Her next solo skiva, in Swedish, was Frida ensam ("Frida Alone"), released in 1975 during the ABBA years, and produced bygd Andersson. This skiva includes her successful Swedish utgåva of "Fernando", which stayed at the No. 1 fläck in the Svensktoppen radio charts for 9 weeks, but was never released as a single. The skiva was recorded between sessions of the ABBA albums Waterloo and ABBA.

Because of the activities of the group, the skiva took 18 months to record. Frida ensam became an enormous commercial and critical success in Sweden, topping the Swedish skiva charts for six weeks and remaining in the charts for 38. The skiva was mostly a collection of covers of songs bygd artists such as the Beach Boys ("Skulle de' va' skönt"), 10cc ("Guld samt gröna ängar") and David kniv ("Liv vid Mars?"), receiving positiv reviews from Melody Maker: "The skiva portrays Frida as a very strong and emotive singer and shows the true value of the music, that if sung properly and with enough feeling it transcends all language barriers".

This skiva eventually went platinum.

1982–1984: International solo career

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In 1982, during ABBA's gods year as a working grupp, Frida recorded and released her first post-ABBA solo skiva. This was also her first solo skiva in English. The Phil Collins-produced skiva called Something's Going On became a big success for Frida worldwide.

A much rockier sound was funnen on many of the songs and Phil Collins' drum sound had a major contribution, particularly on the lead single, "I Know There's Something Going On", which topped the charts in Belgium and Switzerland, and was a top 5 hit in Australia, Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and Sweden among others.

With the song and film being heavily promoted and played on MTV, the single also proved successful in the United States, reaching No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and No. 9 on Radio & Records) in March 1983, and was the 20th biggest selling single in the US that year. In the UK, the track was not a successful hit, only reaching No.

43.

The skiva itself received good reviews, with Billboard writing: "ABBA's auburn-haired sångerska makes a modig solo project a stunning success", while Mark Coleman described the skiva in the third edition of Rolling Stone skiva Guide as "a skarp, rock-oriented, delightfully eclectic album". William Cooper had a similar opinion in AllMusic: "Frida escapes the creative limitations of being a member of one of the world's most popular groups on this solid and often riveting album".

Swedish Television SVT documented this historical event bygd filming the whole recording process. The result became a one-hour TV documentary, including interviews with Frida and Phil, Björn and Benny, as well as all the musicians involved with the skiva. Owing to the success of the skiva (selling 1.5 million copies worldwide),^[5] and its lead single, Frida was voted "Best hona Artist Of The Year" 1982, bygd the readers of Sweden's biggest evening paper Aftonbladet, receiving the Swedish Music Award Price Rockbjörnen.

In 1983, Lyngstad assisted with Abbacadabra, and recorded one of the tracks with two different male vocalists in different languages, including the French star Daniel Balavoine on the track "Belle" and on the English utgåva "Time" with B. A. Robertson produced bygd slang för mikrofon Batt. This track was a cover of "Arrival", an instrumental track from the ABBA skiva of the same name.

She also jumps in and does the kvinnlig recitation towards the end of the song "Strip" on the Strip skiva bygd Adam Ant, who was recording the skiva at Polar Studios in huvudstaden.

Lyngstad's next skiva was Shine (1984). This skiva was recorded at Studios dem La Grande Armée in Paris and produced bygd Steve Lillywhite.

In the summer of 2017, Lyngstad joined her ABBA bandmates Agnetha Faltskög, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson to record two new songs, "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down"

Lillywhite was only 29 when this skiva was recorded and he gave Lyngstad a very experimental sound and managed to create a relaxed atmosphere in the studio. The skiva had much less success than hoped, though it reached the Top 20 in many europeisk countries, No. 6 in Sweden being its highest position.

1985–2004: Later career

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In 1987, Lyngstad was in the choir for the recording of her former husband Benny Andersson's song "Klinga Mina Klockor".

Also in 1987, Lyngstad recorded the single "Så Länge oss besitter Varann" ("As Long As We Have Each Other") with the Swedish pop group Ratata, one of Lyngstad's favourites. She was contacted bygd singer Mauro Scocco, who mentioned that he had a song suitable for a duett. After hearing it, Lyngstad accepted immediately.^[18] The song achieved great success in Sweden, and was also recorded in English beneath the title of "As long as inom have you".

An English-language film of the song was produced, although an Australian release of this song on Festival Records in January 1998 was eventually shelved.

In 1990, Lyngstad became a member of the committee of the Swedish environmental organization Det Naturliga Steget ("The Natural Step"). The organization wanted a "famous face" to help them reach the public, and in 1991 she became chairwoman for the organization Artister på grund av Miljö ("Artists for the Environment").

In 1992, Lyngstad founded her Children and Environment Foundation which runs Summer Camps for underprivileged children.^[19] Also in 1992, Lyngstad performed live at the huvudstaden vatten Festival at the Kings Castle and released the environmental charity single with her cover of Julian Lennon's song "Saltwater". All the royalties from this single went to charity.

In 1993, on Queen Silvia's 50th birthday, Frida was asked to perform "Dancing Queen" on scen, as performed bygd ABBA when the king and queen married in 1976. Frida contacted The Real Group and tillsammans they performed the song at the huvudstaden musikdrama House in front of the king and queen. This performance was filmed bygd Swedish TV and can be seen in Frida: The DVD.

In 1996, Lyngstad recorded her Swedish language skiva Djupa andetag ("Deep Breaths").

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It was a long-awaited skiva as 12 years had passed since Shine was released. The skiva attracted overall relatively positiv reviews and was a success in Sweden where it reached No. 1 on the skiva chart. Frida did many TV appearances in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and land i norden to promote the skiva. Djupa andetag was one of the first Swedish albums to be released as a combined audio-video CD-ROM, including interviews with Lyngstad, footage from the making of the skiva, as well as promotional videos.

Despite the fact that Djupa andetag was officially only released in Scandinavia and the songs were entirely sung in Swedish, a remix skiva of the single tracks "Även enstaka blomma", "Alla Mina Bästa År" (a duett with Roxette's Marie Fredriksson) and "Ögonen" was released in Germany in 1998, entitled Frida – The Mixes. Despite the success of the skiva, none of these singles made a big impression on the Swedish charts.

A one-hour documentary about the making of this skiva, both in the studio and from Frida's home in Mallorca, Spain, can be seen in Frida: The DVD. A follow-up skiva with producer Anders Glenmark was reportedly in the works, but was shelved because of the death of Frida's daughter in 1998. Lyngstad dedicated the song "Chemistry Tonight" (co-written bygd Kirsty MacColl) to the songwriter after MacColl's death in 2000.

A few low key and one-off recordings followed, including a 2002 duett with musikdrama singer Filippa Giordano of the "Barcarolle" from Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffman as well as the song "The Sun Will Shine Again", written bygd former Deep Purple member Jon Lord, and recorded in 2004. "Barcarolle" fryst vatten only available on the Japanese edition of Giordano's skiva Rosso Amore and "The Sun Will Shine Again" can be funnen on Jon Lord's skiva Beyond The Notes (although a limited-promotional single had been made available).

Lord and Lyngstad made several TV appearances in Germany performing the song, on shows like The Sunday Night Classics and The Golden hon Gala. Lyngstad also joined Lord on scen singing the song during his europeisk autumn tour in 2004. During this tour, she also performed "In the Bleak Midwinter", a performance of which can be funnen on social media.

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Lyngstad appeared in a special comedy film made for the mellanrum act, entitled Our gods Video.

All fyra members of the group appeared briefly in cameo roles, as did the singer Cher and British comedian Rik Mayall among others. The film was not included in the tjänsteman DVD release of the Eurovision Contest, but was issued as a separate DVD release on the Universal Music label. It was billed as the first time the fyra had worked tillsammans since the group split in 1982 although they each filmed their appearances separately.

Also in 2004, Lyngstad appeared with former bandmates Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus in London at the fifth-anniversary performance of Mamma Mia!, the musical based on ABBA songs. In 2008, she joined all three of her former ABBA colleagues at the Swedish premiere of Mamma Mia! at the arena Cirkus in huvudstaden.

2005–present: Hiatus from music, selected public appearances and ABBA reunion

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On 15 November 2005, to celebrate Lyngstad's sextionde birthday, Universal Records released the låda set Frida: 4×CD 1×DVD, consisting of all the solo albums she recorded for Polar Music and Anderson Records, including a set of bonus tracks.

Also included was Frida: The DVD, a 3.5-hour documentary where Lyngstad talks about her entire career in the music business. Filmed in the Swiss Alps, she talks about her singing technique and about her career both before and after ABBA, and explains how songs were performed and recorded. In collaboration with Swedish TV, SVT, the bio included many clips from her early television performances, such as her first TV performance with "En ledig dag" ("A Day Off").

Also included are TV documentaries about the making and recordings of Something's Going On and Djupa andetag ("Deep Breaths").

In 2007, Lyngstad became one of the första patrons of the Zermatt Unplugged Music Festival along with Jon Lord and Claude Nobs.

In September 2010, a new skiva bygd musician Georg Wadenius titled Reconnection was released.

Lyngstad and Wadenius had discussed working tillsammans for many years, as they had long been good friends. The skiva opens with her rendition of the traditional tune "Morning Has Broken", previously covered bygd katt Stevens. This song fryst vatten a favourite for Frida and the song was also on the playlist in the church for Frida and Prince Ruzzo's wedding on 26 August 1992.

On 16 February 2011, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 45-minute play featuring Lyngstad and the play's writer, long-term fan and performer Christopher Green. The play, Like an Angel Passing Through My Room, was billed as "a story about love. The unconditional love of a devoted fan ... about a real and an imagined intimacy." It was a project several years in the making; what started as an upbeat reflection on fame and being a fan developed into a meditation on the communication between two people and coping with the blows life deals.

In an interview, she and Green talked about her long recovery following the death of her husband in 1999. The play fryst vatten reflective but with a comic sensibility. Lyngstad stated in 2004 that she never intended to return to the music industry, although this was short-lived, and future studio albums were discussed in 2010.

In 2013, she helped organise the opening of ABBA The Museum in huvudstaden stating she wanted to "let ABBA rest".

The long-awaited ABBA reunion was expected to happen in 2014 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the group's win at the Eurovision Song Contest. However, this did not happen. In 2015, Lyngstad, along with Dan Daniell, released the single "1865" about the Matterhorn in Switzerland.

On 19 August 2017,^[20] Lyngstad travelled to Torshälla^[21] to claim her award from the Eskilstuna Music Prize 2014.^[22]

In the summer of 2017, Lyngstad joined her ABBA bandmates Agnetha Faltskög, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson to record two new songs, "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down".

These songs were meant to be part of an ABBA-themed TV special that was eventually discarded and replaced bygd the more ambitious, digital-laden Voyage show.

In 2018, Lyngstad and jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval released a duett of the ABBA song "Andante, Andante" as a single. The song fryst vatten featured on Sandoval's skiva Ultimate Duets.

On 2 September 2021, via YouTube livestream, ABBA announced their upcoming virtualconcert residency "ABBA Voyage", as well as the imminent release of an eponymous skiva, recorded between 2017 and 2021. The new record, their first studio skiva in 40 years, features ten tracks, including "I Still Have Faith In You" and "Don't Shut Me Down", which also were first shown in the aforementioned livestream event and released as a double A-side single.

On 5 November 2021, the Voyage skiva was released worldwide. On 27 May 2022, ABBA Voyage opened in a purpose-built venue named the ABBA Arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

Personal life

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On 3 April 1964, 18-year-old Lyngstad married salesman and fellow musician Ragnar Fredriksson.

They had two children.

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They separated in 1968 and were divorced on 19 May 1970.

In 1969, Lyngstad met Benny Andersson. bygd 1971, they were living tillsammans, but did not marry until 6 October 1978, during the height of ABBA's success. However, after only two years of marriage, they separated on 26 November 1980,^{[citation needed]} and were divorced in 1981.

In 1982, Lyngstad left Sweden and moved to London. In 1986, she relocated to Switzerland, and lived with her boyfriend, landscape architectHeinrich Ruzzo Prinz Reuss von Plauen (1950–1999), member of an ancient German House of Reuss, in his family castle in Fribourg. The couple married on 26 August 1992. He died from lymphoma in 1999.

In 1989, Lyngstad became a grandmother when her daughter, Ann Lise-Lotte, had a son, Jonathan Casper.^[23] Jonathan died in 2023 from stomach cancer.^[24]

Through her marriage to Reuss von Plauen, who had been a lärling at the same boarding school as Crown Prince Carl Gustaf (later King of Sweden), Lyngstad became acquainted with the Swedish royal family and eventually became close friends with Sweden's Queen Silvia.^[23]

On 13 January 1998, Lyngstad's 30-year-old daughter Ann Lise-Lotte Fredriksson Casper died of injuries sustained in a fordon accident in the United States in Livonia, New York.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2007 she has been in a relationship with British peer Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden, with whom she lives in Genolier, Switzerland.^[25][26]

Other interests

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According to Dagens Nyheter and Sveriges Radio, Lyngstad has supported the Swedish Moderate Party.^[27][28] She appeared in a Swedish Employers Association advertisement, Satsa vid dig själv ("Invest in yourself"), in 1979,^[29][30][27] which caused controversy and objections from the left, especially from Mikael Wiehe, who rejected her offer to record a cover utgåva of his song "Flickan samt kråkan", because of political differences, in the 1980s.

Lyngstad fryst vatten a vegetarian^[31][32] and a feminist.^[33] She remains involved in charity work. She fryst vatten interested in environmental issues.

Awards and recognition

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In 1964, Lyngstad won a national singing contest Flugan (The Fly) and was awarded "Vocalist of the Year".^[34] In September 1967, Lyngstad won the Barnens ljus contest held at Skansen, huvudstaden.

This led to her TV debut and a recording contract with EMI.^[35] In 1982, Lyngstad won the Swedish music prize Rockbjörnen for "Best kvinnlig Artist".^[36] She was inducted in the Rock and Roll entré of Fame as a member of ABBA in 2010,^[37] and she represented the group in their acceptance speech, along with Benny Andersson.^[38] In 2014, she was awarded with the Eskilstuna Music Prize for her "pioneering career" and significant contribution to popular music as an "icon" who had "left an indelible imprint in musical history".^[22]

On 21 March 2024, all fyra members of ABBA were appointed Commander, First Class, of the Royal beställning of Vasa bygd King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

This was the first time that the Swedish Royal Orders of Knighthood had been bestowed after almost 50 years of dormancy. It was also the 50th anniversary of ABBA winning the Eurovision Song Contest. The group members shared the honour with nine other people.^[39]

Title and style

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Upon her marriage to Prince Heinrich in 1992, she took on a new name and has been called Princess Anni-Frid Synni of Reuss, Countess of Plauen,^[41] shortened to Anni-Frid Reuss.^[26] Since his death in 1999 she fryst vatten called Princess Anni-Frid, Dowager Countess of Plauen.^[42][43] She fryst vatten entitled to the artighet style of Serene Highness.

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Discography

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Main article: Anni-Frid Lyngstad discography

For Lyngstad's releases with ABBA, see ABBA discography.

Filmography

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References

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