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". In 1957 she supplied the vocals for Ann Blyth in the movie portrayal of Helen Morgan's life. 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. In 1956 she was voted most popular female vocalist by Billboard magazine. In 1992 Anni-Frid married His Highness Prince Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss von Plauen (1950-1999), of the Princely Reuss family. Before adopting the name "Gogi Grant" she had used the names "Audrey Brown" and "Audrey Grant." She was given the name "Gogi" by Dave Kapp, the head of Artists and Repertory at RCA Records, who liked to patronize a restaurant called "Gogi's LaRue.". She married Benny on October 6, 1978 - divorcing in 1981. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She made a second in 1971, produced by Benny Andersson, laying the foundations for ABBA. Gogi Grant (born Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg, September 20, 1924) was an American popular singer. In 1967 Anni-Frid won a TV talent contest, and made an album for EMI. "The Wayward Wind" (1956). 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. "Suddenly There's a Valley" (1955). Synni died before Anni-Frid was two, so she was brought up by her grandmother in Eskilstuna, Sweden. "Strange Are the Ways of Love" (1958).

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. After a German magazine published the story of her origins in 1977, Anni-Frid discovered that her father had not died. 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. Anni-Frid-Synni "Frida" Lyngstad (born November 15, 1945) is best known as one of the four singers in the pop group ABBA.