Anni-Frid Lyngstad

In 2004 she re-entered the limelight by recording a song in conjunction with former Deep Purple legend Jon Lord "The Sun will Shine Again" and also appearing with Benny and Bjorn at the London 5th Anniversary performance of the musical based on Abba songs, "Mamma Mia". Following a severe injury to keyboardist Doug Firley's hands, they were unable to complete a tour for "Superstarved" and broke up in 2002. After the break-up of Abba in 1982 Frida released a successful album, "There's Something Going On" though the follow-up "Shine" was less popular and proved her last foray into the music world for some years. Their only other successful singles afterwards were "Falling", off of Perversion and "One Thing", from Superstarved, though both were only minor successes. In 1992 Anni-Frid married His Highness Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss von Plauen (1950-1999), of the Princely Reuss family. However, they were thought of by both the public and the media as a mere imitation of Nine Inch Nails. She married Benny on October 6, 1978 - divorcing in 1981. Appearances on the soundtracks for Mortal Kombat and Seven also helped bring exposure.

She made a second in 1971, produced by Benny Andersson, laying the foundations for ABBA. They had their first hit single with "Guilty" off of their album Gravity Kills. In 1967 Anni-Frid won a TV talent contest, and made an album for EMI. The band was formed in 1994. Anni-Frid got her first job as a jazz singer at the age of 13, then formed her own band, the Anni-Frid Four, marrying the bass player Ragnar Fredriksson at age 18, with whom she had two children before divorcing. Gravity Kills were an American industrial rock band from Saint Louis, Missouri. Synni died before Anni-Frid was two, so she was brought up by her grandmother in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Kurt Kerns - bass, drums.

At the end of WWII Anni-Frid, her mother and grandmother fled to Sweden for fear of reprisals from the Norwegian population - whose socialist government put many German-fathered children into mental institutions, or sent them overseas. Douglas Firley - keyboard. After a German magazine published the story of her origins in 1977, Anni-Frid discovered that her father had not died. Matt Dudenhoffer - guitar. Anni-Frid was born illegitimately in Ballangen, near Narvik, Norway as a result of a liaison between Synni - her mother - and a married German sergeant, Alfred Haase, during the German military occupation. Anni-Frid believed that her father had died when his ship to Germany was sunk during the war. Jeff Scheel - vocals. Anni-Frid-Synni "Frida" Lyngstad (born November 15, 1945) is best known as one of the four singers in the pop group ABBA.