Agnetha Faltskog, the blonde singer from Abba, has put poplivet on the shelf. Both as a soloist and together with Abba. She lives in the country now. 5. april she fills 70.
Near the Swedish capital, Stockholm, lies the municipality of Ekerö, which consists of a large number of small islands.
A municipality with 28,000 inhabitants. One of them is the famous Agnetha Faltskog.
In the 1970s and 1980s hung she along with the other three members of the popgruppen Abba on the walls of teenageværelser in large parts of the world.
When it was Saturday night at the time, was danced to Agnetha Fältskogs voice of Abba-hits in the discos.
Now turnéliv and concerts put on the shelf for the singer, there the 5. april the age of 70 years.
In Ekerö, she has, according to the nyheter24.see a small farm with a small farm. Here she brings in a tractor, a John Deere 5070 M.
When she should be out on the asphalt, she can choose from a Fiat Nevis – a mobilehome or a Lexus RX.
Agnetha Faltskog can look back on a career, in addition to Abba-the time from 1970 to 1982 also include a solo career both before and after Abba.
She was only 15 years old, when she would svensktoppens first place with his own song “Jag was so kär”.
Two years after the hit she with “On the tårar product gold”, which was also a big dansktophit with Susanne Lana.
Faltskog, who was already good friends with Anni- “Saltwater” Lyngstad and Benny Andersson met the same year Björn Ulvaeus from the group Hootenanny Singers.
It led not just to the, to the four formed a band, which in 1972 was named after the first letter in their first names. It also led to the Faltskog and Ulvaeus formed a couple and were married in 1971.
They had two children, daughter Linda Elin and son, Peter Christian, before they were divorced in 1980.
The personal inconsistencies, they do not go beyond Abba.
Popbandet were already international superstars, as it is with the song “Waterloo” won in the european), control in 1974.
then followed countless hits, and Abba took advantage of the then new trend to make hitvideoer.
Here kælede the cameras on the beautiful Agnethas bright appearance.
After Abbas stop in 1982 issued Agnetha Faltskog in the 1980s on its own three English albums.
In 2004 she published a new album, “My Colouring Book” and in 2008 the compilation album “My Very Best”.
In the summer of 2008 drew the cover photo around the world, as Faltskog, Lyngstad and movie star Meryl Streep danced on a hotelbalkon in Stockholm in front of thousands of cheering fans.
It was at the premiere of the film adaptation of the Abba musical “Mamma Mia!”. On the same occasion, the four Abba’have been photographed together for the first time in 22 years.
Agnetha Faltskog is like the other three former Abba-members have often been asked about a reunion.
It has the rejected. There is, however, a project of new songs that should be released in the fall of 2019. It is studiesange, and there are not plans for actual concerts.
Björn Ulvaeus said in september last year, that some of the songs expected to be released in 2020.
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