Agnetha Faltskog

At 74 years old, Agnetha Faltskog has this physical status:

Agneta Fältskog (born 5 April 1950) better known as Agnetha Fältskog, is a Swedish singer, songwriter, actor, and actress.

Fältskog's debut album Agnetha Fältskog in 1968 and became a best-selling musician in Sweden, despite being more solitary in the nineties, avoiding outside exposure and residing on the Stockholm County island of Ekerö.

Fältskog stopped recording for almost 17 years until she released a new album in 2004.

With A, her highest UK charting solo album to date, she debuted in 2013 again.

Personal life

Fältskog married Bjorn Ulvaeus on July 6, 1971. Linda Elin Ulvaeus (born 23 February 1973), and Peter Christian Ulvaeus (born 4 December 1977) had two children: Linda Elin Ulvaeus (born 23 February 1973) and Peter Christian Ulvaeus (born 4 December 1977). The couple divorced in early 1979, and in July 1980, they were divorced.

Fältskog's departure from Ulvaeus in 1979 greatly affected her, and she needed therapy afterwards. Her second marriage to Tomas Sonnenfeld in 1990 was kept secret, and only became public knowledge when they divorced three years later. Her mother's suicide in 1994 and her father's death the next year were also kept private.

Fältskog is a student at the University of Ekerö, Stockholm County. Linda's daughter, Linda, lives in Ekerö with her family. Fältskog has four grandchildren.

Fältskog's fear of flying soared during ABBA's 1979 American tour, when the band's plane, headed to Boston, Massachusetts, was short of fuel and did an emergency landing. Fältskog said in 2013 that she still needed therapy to cope with the fear. Fältskog will always travel by bus and was involved in a bus accident on a Swedish motorway in 1983.

Among other things, Fältskog has suffered from stage fright, fear of crowds and open spaces, and a fear of heights.

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Life and career

Agneta se Fältskog was born in Jönköping, Sweden, on April 5th, 1950. She was the first of two daughters of department store manager Knut Ingvar Fältskog (1922–1995) and his partner Birgit Margareta Johansson (1923–1994). Ingvar expressed an immense interest in music and show business, while Birgit devoted herself to her children and families. Mona, Fältskog's younger sister, was born in 1955.

"Tv troll" is Fältskog's first song at the age of six, and "Two Little Trolls" is her first song. In 1958, she began piano lessons and sang in a local church choir. Fältskog, a 1960-born musician, formed the Cambers, with her Lena Johansson and Elisabeth Strub. They appeared in minor venues but soon dissolved due to a lack of interest. Fältskog, a 16-year-old boy, decided to leave school and pursue a career.

Connie Francis, Marianne Faithfull, Aretha Franklin, and Lesley Gore are among her best musical influences, according to Fältskog.

While playing with a local dance group, led by Bernt Enghardt, Fältskog worked as a telephonist for a car company. The band soon became so popular that she had to choose between her work and her musical career. She has been playing with the Bernt Enghardt band for two years. Fältskog and her boyfriend Björn Lilja got together in a song entitled "I Was So in Love" ("I Was So in Love") that soon brought her to national prominence.

Karl Gerhard Lundkvist, a cousin of one of the band's members, has left his lucrative rock and roll career and started working as a record producer at Cupol Records at that time. Enghardt gave him a demo recording of the band, but Lundkvist expressed only concern with Fältskog and her song. She was worried because he was not involved in the band and they weren't to be on the roster. However, she turned down the bid and signed a recording deal with Cupol Records.

"Jag var s. kär" was her self-penned debut album and was released on October 16th in 1967 and released by Cupol Records the following month. On January 28, 1968, it dominated the Swedish Chart and sold more than 80,000 copies. She also submitted "Försonade" ("Reconciled") to Melodifestivalen, Sweden's preliminary for the Eurovision Song Contest, but it was not selected for the final, but not for the final. Fältskog became one of Sweden's most well-known pop singers, appearing in a television special about Swedish composer Jules Sylvain in 1969. Her mother, Leah, released the single "Zigenarvän" ("Gypsy Friend") about a teenage girl attending a Gypsy wedding and falling in love with her bride's brother the same year. Fältskog was accused of deliberately trying to make money out of the situation by writing the song, which coincided with a tense discussion about Gypsies in the Swedish media, and it was revealed that it coincided with a tense discussion about Gypsies.

Fältskog's success persisted into the late 1960s. She met Dieter Zimmermann, a German songwriter/producer, with whom she became engaged. Her albums also hit the German charts, and Zimmermann promised her that she would have a great deal in Germany. However, when she went there and met with record-makers, the venture was not profitable; Fältskog refused to satisfy the producers' demands, describing the product as "horrible." She quickly left Zimmermann and returned to Sweden.

("If Tears Were Gold") was a hit with the 1970s. Per Hviid, the Danish composer, claimed that she used 22 bars from his composition "Tema" ("Theme"), but that it was not published in the 1950s and had never been recorded. The lawsuit didn't proceed until 1977, when a deal was reached and Fältskog paid the Danish musician SEK 5.000,000.

In 1972, Fältskog portrayed Mary Magdalene in the Swedish production of the international hit musical Jesus Christ Superstar.

Björn Ulvaeus, a member of the Hootenanny Singers, visited Fältskog for the first time in 1968 and then again in 1969. Ulvaeus' relationship, as well as her friendship with Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, with whom Ulvaeus had already written songs, culminated in the formation of ABBA. Fältskog and Ulvaeus married in Verum on July 6, 1971, with Andersson playing the organ at their wedding. Linda Elin Ulvaeus, the couple's first child, was born on February 23, 1973, and their son Peter Christian Ulvaeus was born on December 4, 1977. The couple split in late 1978 and applied for divorce in January 1979. They had been married for seven years. In July 1980, the divorce was finalized. Both Fältskog and Ulvaeus have agreed not to let their failed marriages interfere with their obligations with ABBA. Ulvaeus was inspired to write the lyrics of "The Winner Takes It All" after their marriage's dissolution.

Fältskog was also known as Anna in some countries as a member of ABBA.

Frida ensam, a female bandmate of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, released her Swedish number one album in 1975, but Elva kvinnor i ett hus was released in 1975. These albums were recorded during sessions and exhibition for the ABBA's Waterloo and ABBA albums. Fältskog's album lasted 53 weeks on the Swedish album chart (longer than any of ABBA's albums), but it fell short of reaching the top ten, peaking at No. 11. It contained three more Svensktoppen entries for Fältskog, the Swedish-language translation of ABBA's "SOS" (also No. 1). "Tack För En Underbar Vanlig Dag"; and "Doktorn" are all on the single sales chart; All of the songs, with the exception of "SOS," were written by Bosse Carlgren and music by Fältskog herself. When Fältskog began writing the songs in 1972, the album had been in progress, but it was postponed due to her involvement with ABBA and her pregnancy.

Fältskog and Carlgren had settled on a set for the album, which would feature 12 songs performed by 12 different female characters in the same apartment building. However, only 11 songs were released on the album, and the concept was not fully developed. Fältskog has a soprano voice, and her range has widened from D3 to Eb6.

Fältskog's number on the Svensktoppen radio chart rose to 18 entries between 1968 and 1980, beginning with the debut single "Jag Var S Kär" in January 1968 (top position No. 1). (Because You Take Me In Your Arms) was the most popular item on the compilation Tio med Agnetha in January 1980, with "När Du Tar Mig I Din Famn" ("When You Take Me in Your Arms") notwithstanding. 1). These 18 entries, the majority of which were written or co-written by Fältskog herself, spent a total of 139 weeks on the charts during this period, with the most notable of these being 1970's "Om trar vore guld" (No. This week is the start of a new one (1.5 weeks).

Fältskog also released the Swedish Christmas album Nu tusen juleljus, which reached No. 1 on the charts. In December 1981, there were six on the Swedish album chart.

Fältskog performed in Melodifestivalen again, but this time as a composer rather than a performer. She wrote the ballad "But the Night Is Ours") in 1981, but instead of performing the song in the competition herself, she selected Kicki Moberg, a young girl from Ingela Forsman's lyrics. The song came in 9th out of ten. The single, which Fältskog produced in the Polar Studios with the same artists as on modern ABBA recordings, was backed by "I'm Still Alive" ("Here Is My Life"), a song performed in its Swedish version (lyrics by ex-husband Björn Ulvaeus) during ABBA's 1979 world tour.

The album by Moberg is the only one to have been officially released to date.

"Disillusion" (the only ABBA song to have been written by her), "I Am Just A Girl", "Momento," "I'm Just A Girl"), "Take A Chance On Me", "Get On The Dance"), "If It Wasn't For The Nights," "I'm Just A Girl," "I'm Sure About You," "My Love, My Life"), "I'll Be A Girl," "I've Been Waiting "Get On The Teacher" "Get Up To The Teacher" "Mo" "You's", "I's "I's", "I's" ("I" "Get On The Teacher," "Get On The Teacher" "I" "Get On The Teacher" "Get On The Teacher "Been" "You" "I" "I" "I" "Get On" "Get On" "Get On "You" "I's" "I" "I's "Get A Girl" "Do The Teacher," "A" "Mo "Get A Girl" "I" "I" "I" "I" "I" "Wo "I" "I's "A" "You" "Wohea" "Beca" "A" "A" "B" "Bo" "You" "Get On The Teacher" "A" "Don's" "I" "You" "A" "Da" "Befor The Child" "Da" "Don's "I" "Being "You" "You" "Being "Beca" "You" "You I's" "You" "Mo" "Mo" "You" "A" "Beg" "I" "You" "You I" "A" "BeF" "You" "You Are You" "We" "You I" "You I's "You Are The Teacher" "Beca" "I" "Get On "I" "You" "Been" "You I Am "A" "You" "Don's" "You Are You" "I's From "Get To The Teacher "I" "You" "You" "You I Wasn's" "A" "I Wasn'" "You I Wasn's" "I Wasn's" "Gel" "Befor The Teacher" "I'" "Befor The Student" "You I Wasn's" "With "I's" "You I Wasn's" "My Life" "I's From "Unita" "You" "You" "I's "You I" "You I" "Me" "I's" "You" "I" "Yours "You I's" "I's "Don's "Ma" "D" "Die" "I" "My Life" "You" "You" "Be The Teacher" "You" "You" "Met For The Teacher" "My Life" "You" "You" "Mo "You" "I's "My Mommy Boy" "" "My Mama "You I" "You" "You" "You" "You" "You" "You" "Kisses" "You" "Mo "You" "I "You" "I Am "You I" "You Are The Child" "I's "If It Wasn's" "Britis" "Da" "If It Wasn's "D" "You" "I's" "You I's "You Are The Teacher" "You" "A" "In The Teacher" "I" "My Teacher "You I's "Mo "I" "You I Am The Teacher" "You I Am" "Mel" "You" "D" "Get On "I" "You I's "You I" "You" "" "You" "You" "Your Child "You" "You I" "You Are "Your I's" "I" "You I "My Boy" "You I" "You" "Mate "You" "I Am" "Bi "You I's "Cho" "B" "You" "You I Am "A" "My Brother" "I" "You I" "You" "You" "You I Wasn's "You I Wasn's" "D "D" "You I "Your Life" "You" "You I" "You I" "You" "You I" "You" "I

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Although no official announcement was made, ABBA effectively disbanded in late 1982 to early 1983. Tomas Ledin, a Swedish singer and former ABBA backing vocalist), performed on "Never Again" as a Top Five hit in Sweden, Norway, Belgium, and South America at the end of 1982, making it a Top Five hit in Sweden, Norway, Belgium, and South America. The album was also released in a Spanish-language version titled "Ya Nunca Más." Fältskog played a key role in the Swedish film Raskenstam in the summer of the same year.

Fältskog's first post-ABBA solo album, Wrap Your Arms Around Me, was released in May 1983 by Mike Chapman. The album became a moderate success in North America and Australia, but it reached the top charts in Europe, including No. 78. 1 in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, and Denmark (where it became the year's best-selling album), top 5 in Germany, The Netherlands and France, and No. In the United Kingdom, there are 18 people. In the first year, the album saw sales of 1.5 million copies. "The Heat Is On" became a No. 1 in continental Europe, and two singles from the album became a hit: "The Heat Is On" became a No. 2 on the charts. No. 1 has been struck in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Belgium, as well as No. 131. 2 in The Netherlands and Germany. The song reached No. 1 on the charts at No. 11. In the United Kingdom, 35 were in the top charting, with Fältskog's highest charting, and no UK Top 40 hit until 2004). The album's title track debuted at No. 1. 1 in Belgium and the No. 1 in the United Kingdom reached No. 1, and the No. 1 ranked No. 1 ranked. In the Netherlands, there are 4 of them. The album track "Can't Shake Loose" was released as the lead-off single in North America, peaking at No. 10. On the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 29 positions are ranked, with No. 1 being the highest. In Canada, 23 positions on the RPM Top 50 singles chart have ranked 23.

Eyes Of A Woman, Fältskog's new studio album, was released in March 1985 by Eric Stewart of tencc. "She is perfectly content to grace the works of several other lesser mortals with her impenetrable, sugar-sweet voice," Melody Maker's Barry McIlheney wrote. The album was a hit in several European countries, with peaking at No. 1. Two in Sweden and Belgium have risen to the top 20 in Norway and Belgium, but only for a week. The album has been out of print for 800,000 copies. The self-penned lead single "I Won't Let You Go" achieved modest success in Europe, landing No. 7 in the top charts. No. 6 in Sweden has no. 6 children. No. 18 in the Netherlands and No. 88 in the United States and No. 2 in the United States. 24 people were arrested in West Germany.

Fältskog's "The Way You Are" by Swedish singer Ola H. Kansson in 1986, becoming the second No. 1 in the world. In Sweden and Norway, 1 hit.

Fältskog ('Come Join Us On Our Carousel') with her son Christian in early 1987. The album contained songs for children and was sung in Swedish. Agnetha performed duets with her son and a children's choir on the album. In 1988, it was nominated for Swedish music award Grammis in a category 'Barn' (For Children).

Fältskog performed her fourth post-ABBA solo album, I Stand Alone, produced by Peter Cetera (formerly of the band Chicago) and Bruce Gaitsch, who had worked on Madonna's La Isla Bonita, in the summer of 1987. I Stand Alone, who was born in November of this year, was a minor success in Europe, except in Sweden, where it spent eight weeks at No. 82. 1 is the best-selling album of 1988, and it became the best-selling album of 1988. Throughout Scandinavia, more than 300,000 copies were sold. According to Hans Englund, WEA's CEO, more than 800,000 copies have been sold around the world. However, the findings were less convincing outside of Scandinavia.

Fältskog duetted with Peter Cetera was released primarily in North America and became her second solo hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 61. 93. It was also a Top 20 Billboard Adult Contemporary Hit. The song, as "La ltima Vez"), was also recorded in Spanish for the Latin American market as "Yo No Fui Quién Dijo Adiós." Fältskog declined to advertise the album in West Germany's main TV shows, but she did a promotional trip to London in February 1988, where she appeared on the Terry Wogan Exhibition.

Fältskog had a 17-year absence from the music industry, during which she made few public appearances and devoted a substantial portion of her time to astrology, yoga, and horse riding at her remote country house in Ekerö, shortly after its release of I Stand Alone.

Fältskog married Swedish surgeon Tomas Sonnenfeld in 1990, but the couple divorced in 1993.

Fältskog's mother died by suicide in 1994 after jumping from her Jönköping apartment balcony. Fältskog's resulting depression worsened a year after her father's death a year ago.

Fältskog formed a friendship with Gert van der Graaf, a Dutch forklift driver, in 1997. After Fältskog decided to break it down in 1999, he stalked her more at her mansion, resulting in a court suing Van der Graaf with a restraining order and deporting him to the Netherlands in 2000. He was arrested and then refused from entering Sweden after returning close to her house in 2003. The ban order from Sweden was cancelled in 2005, but Van der Graaf was seen near Fältskog's estate in Ekerö within months.

In 1996, she autobiography Som jag är was published in Swedish (and English the following year) and followed by several compilation CDs of her Swedish and English songs, including one called My Love, My Life, in which Fältskog picked out the music herself. Fans of the autobiography were raving about it. The book was published in 1998 and was distributed worldwide by Virgin Publishing, selling over 50,000 copies.

Fältskog released a new single, "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind" (a cover of the song first released by Cilla Black). It topped at No. 101. 2 in Sweden and 2 in Fiji, the highest charting UK single to date, debuting No. 11. The album My Colouring Book, a collection of Fältskog's covers of 1960s classic oldies, was published a week after, debuting in Sweden, reaching the Top Five in Finland and Denmark, and peaking at No. 5. 6 and No. Both Germany and the United Kingdom have 12 students. "My Colouring Book" is a recreation of Barbra Streisand's song "My Colouring Book." "Time hasn't diminished her natural voice," the observer said. "Agnetha Fältskog has a fragility that comes under the skin of a song," Caroline Sullivan wrote about it in The Guardian. She may be cheating a trifle by including no original content on this series of 1960s covers, but it's her. The soaring sentimentality invokes Cilla Black and Sandie Shaw's mini-skirted pomp, and I don't say anything lightly." The album attracted widespread media attention throughout Europe, but Fältskog has always denied to be involved in any significant advertising of the album.

"When You Walk in the Room," the album's second single release, debuted at No. 11 in Sweden and rose to the top 40 in the UK Top 40 at No. 40. 34 (which was still higher than any of her UK singles in the 1980s) was the highest level ever recorded in the UK. Art Garfunkel's "Sometimes When I'm Dreaming" was not released as the third single.

Fältskog appeared in a special comedy video made for the interval act, "Our Last Video," shortly after this announcement, for the 2004 semi-finals of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul 30 years after ABBA had won the competition in Brighton. Both four members of the band, as did singer and actress Cher and comedian Rik Mayall, appeared briefly in cameo roles.

Fältskog was nominated for Best Nordic Artist at the Nordic Music Awards in 2004, and she gave a long interview (her first for many years) on Christmas of that year, which was shot by Swedish television. Sony Music released a lavishly produced 6-CD boxed set containing Fältskog's Swedish solo career (mostly before ABBA), as well as her 1975 album released and released during her tenure with ABBA.

Fältskog and her old bandmates attended the Mamma Mia opening in 2005. Björn, an ex-husband, and I attended the final show in January 2007.

In October 2008, My Very Best, a new compilation album, was released in Sweden. Both Swedish (CD 1) and English-language hits (CD 2) from her entire solo career, from 1967 to 2004, are included on the double CD. It's now at No. 13. Within the first week of its debut, the Swedish album chart ranked 4th and was certified gold.

Fältskog performed with her colleagues at the Swedish premiere of Mamma Mia!, directed by Andersson, in Mariatorget, Stockholm, on July 4, 2008. Fältskog arrived in Lyngstad and film actress Meryl Streep, dancing before joining the film's other actors, Andersson, and Ulvaeus on the hotel balcony for the first photograph of all four ABBA members together in 22 years.

Fältskog was on stage with Lyngstad at the Swedish Rockbjörn Awards in January 2009 to be named a lifetime honorary award for ABBA.

ABBA World, a large multimillion-Pound (in monetary value) exhibition, opened in February 2010 in London's Earl's Court and featured a lengthy interview with Fältskog filmed in Sweden the previous summer. She produced a light-hearted opening film with former ABBA colleague Benny Andersson, shot in Stockholm in June 2010.

Fältskog opened the Mamma Mia in October 2010. Björn Ulvaeus, a former husband of Denmark, has been on stage in Denmark.

Fältskog released A, a new album from Jörgen Elofsson and Peter Nordahl, in May 2013. The first single, "When You Really Loved Someone," had previously been released in the United Kingdom, on March 11th, with accompanying video also launching on the same day. "The One Who Loves You Now" was Germany's first single, and it was also available for download on March 11, 2013. "I Should've Followed You Home" is the album's duet with Gary Barlow of Take That.

Officials from Universal Records in the Netherlands reported that 600,000 copies of A were sold in the first two months following its introduction in June 2013. In several countries, including Sweden, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, New Zealand, and Australia, the album held the top 5 positions, including Sweden, Norway, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, New Zealand, and Australia. It was ranked at No. 1 in the United States charted. 6 in the United Kingdom (her highest ranking in the region), and a few weeks after the album's debut, a BBC TV special helped the album reach No. 62. For the second time, the UK album chart has risen to 6th position. "Dance Your Pain Away," the album's first single to be released in the United States, was released on May 28th. Smash Mode's two new mixes were included in the digital single. On July 15, 2013, the single "Dance Your Pain Away" was released worldwide as a single.

Fältskog was honoured with the SKAP 2013 Kai Gullmar Memorial Award at the Stockholm independence party on May 17th.

Fältskog performed live on stage for the first time in 25 years at the BBC Children in Need Rocks 2013 concert in London on November 12, 2013. She performed the single "I Should've Followed You Home" from Agnetha's album 'A'.

A video for "I Should've Followed You Home" was shot on the same day as the single's debut was released on November 18, 2013, in order to advertise the song. Despite the fact that the single was released in most countries in November 2013, its introduction in the United Kingdom was postponed. She also received Best Female Album – 6th Annual Scandipop 2014 – and was nominated for the German 2014 ECHO award in the Artist Rock/Pop International category.

In April 2016, a new biography of Fältskog by Daniel Ward, Agnetha Fältskog – The Girl With The Golden Hair, was published in the United Kingdom.

Faltskög, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, and her ABBA colleagues Frida Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, and Benny Andersson recorded two new songs, "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down," together with her ABBA bandmates in the summer of 2017. These songs were supposed to be part of an ABBA-themed television special that was eventually cancelled and replaced by the more exciting, digital-laden Voyage revue.

ABBA announced their forthcoming, state-of-the-art show "Voyage," as well as the imminent unveiling of an eponymous album, which dates from 2017 to 2021, on September 2nd, 2021. The new album, the first studio album in 40 years, features ten songs, including "I Still Have Faith In You" and "Don't Shut Me Down," which were first broadcast in the aforementioned livestream case and released as a double A-side single. Around the world, the 5th November 2021 "Voyage" was announced.

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