Singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad, also known as Frida Lyngstad, turns 75 on 15 November.
Abba last released music in 1982. In 2021, however, five new songs from the group are expected, several media outlets have written.
– As long as we can sing and play, why not do it. I would love that, but it’s up to Björn and Benny, she said of a possible comeback to The Guardian in 2014, referring to songwriters Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson.
Anni-Frid Lyngstad was actually born in Norway as a result of an affair between a young Norwegian girl and a German soldier.
The mother died when Anni-Frid was quite small, and the father had long since disappeared, so she grew up with her grandmother. They moved to Eskilstuna in Sweden.
Here she started singing jazz early on and formed her own band, Anni-Frid Four.
At the age of 17, she had her first child, a son, with Ragnar Frederiksson, whom she married the following year. In 1967 they also had a daughter.
That same year, Anni-Frid Lyngstad won a talent competition on television, which led to a record release. A few years later another record followed – this time with Benny Andersson as producer.
Together with Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus, they formed the two Abba, whose success gained momentum when they won the European Melody Grand Prix in 1974 with the song “Waterloo”.
The page was followed by hits such as “Dancing Queen”, “Take a Chance on Me”, “Mamma Mia”, “Voulez-Vous” and “Super Trouper”.
Anni-Frid Lyngstad had been divorced from her first husband and married Benny Andersson during the musical adventure.
For ten years, the four were united in the pop group, which is the best-selling group in the world after The Beatles. Since then, Anni-Frid has also released four solo albums.
Life has not only been happy for Frida. She divorced Benny in 1981.
In 1992, she remarried. This time with a German prince, Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss von Plauen, making her a princess.
But then the accident hit. She first lost her daughter, Lise-Lotte, in a car accident in the United States in 1998, and the following year Ruzzo Reuss died of cancer.
Today she lives in Switzerland and on the Spanish island of Mallorca respectively and spends a lot of time on charity work.
She pairs with the British businessman and nobleman Viscount Henry Smith of Hambleden.