Marie Fredriksson

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Career

Fredriksson moved to Halmstad, where she worked in theatre before becoming involved in the local indie music scene. Strul (English: Hassle) formed in 1978 with then-boyfriend Stefan Dernbrant; the band was made up of a large and fractured lineup of musicians, the majority of whom would leave after a single performance. Strulfestivalen, a 1979-based independent music festival, was extremely profitable for the band. From 1981 to 1981, the festival was held each summer. Dernbrant left the company in December 1980 when he and Fredriksson broke up. Fredriksson's other long-serving member, guitarist Martin Sternhufvud, decided to continue performing under the Struggle name despite the festival's success. The group's fame soared in 1981, culminating in numerous appearances on Swedish music television shows. Strul's debut led to the signing of their first and only single in June, "Strul igen," on the double A-side. The publication was timed to coincide with the 1981 version of Strulfestivalen, which would have been the last; three months later, the organization was officially disbanded following a "disastrous" appearance at the Pop Around the Clock festival, which was broadcast nationally on Swedish radio.

Fredriksson and Sternhufvud formed MaMas Barn, a new band formed after Strul's breakup. (English: MaMas Children) Sternhufvud and Fredriksson were the only permanent members, with Sternhufvud's transfer to vocals and Fredriksson's return to keyboards. The name was generated by combining the first two letters of each member's name. Anders Herrlin and Mickael "Syd" Andersson, respectively, became members of the duo often shared a rehearsal space with Gyllene Tider, leading to the formation of the latter band's bassist and drummer Anders Herrlin and drummer. Fredriksson performed vocals on Gyllene Tider's 1981 album "Ingenting av vad du behöver" (English: "Nothing of What You Want") due to their close friendship between the two bands. MaMas Barn, a younger sister of the United States, joined CBS Records International before their recording deal, Barn som barn, was sold to WEA International, which funded the recording of their only album, Children as Children, on the following year. Finn Sjöberg, an ABBA guitarist, was responsible for the album's release in November 1982. Despite being a critical success, the album failed commercially, selling approximately 1,000 copies. The group was disbanded shortly after.

Fredriksson was "too talented to be hiding behind keyboards," Gessle invited her to audition for Gyllene Tider's producer Lars-Göran "Lasse" Lindbom. Lindbom, a singer who was empathetic and "lacks confidence" to be a solo artist, offered Fredriksson a contract as a solo artist on EMI Sweden, but she initially refused to proceed, claiming she was "too afraid" and "lacked the confidence" to be a solo artist. On "Snära Nu" (English: "So Near Now"), the lead single from the Lasse Lindbom Band's 1982 album Romantisk Blackout, she performed duet vocals. The album was a hit in Sweden, and she performed with Lindbom's band as a featured vocalist on a long tour of Sweden. Fredriksson recorded backing vocals for Gyllene Tider's debut English album The Heartland Café, released in Sweden under the band's name and in EP form in North America under the name Roxette, which derives from the Dr. Feelgood song of the same name.

Fredriksson decided to embark on a solo career in late 1983, co-writer and producer on Gessle's insistence, with Lindbom as co-writer and producer. "Nnu doftar kärlek" (English: "Still the Scent of Love") was released as her debut single in May 1984, becoming a top-ten hit on Sweden's national record chart. Het vind (English: Hot Wind) was her debut album in September and ranked in the top ten in the Sverigetopplistan top twenty. Fredriksson appeared as a solo artist alongside Lindbom's eponymous band on a three-month double bill concert tour. The title track was released in October as the second and final single of Cyndi Lauper's "All Through the Night" (English: "Night After Night").

She appeared onstage from March to June 1985, after which she appeared on Spännande Ostar (English: Exciting Cheeses). Fredriksson and Lindbom appeared on various Swedish television shows, and Per Gessle and Mats Persson appeared with Per Gessle and Mats Persson. Fredriksson and Lindbom travelled to the Canary Islands in the same year to write songs for their second solo album. Den sjunde vs. Gen. (English: The Seventh Wave) was released in February 1986 and debuted at number six on Sverigetopplistan in February 1986, grossing more than 90,000 copies. On Svensktoppen, Sweden's airplay-based chart, "Den bästa dagen" ("English: "The Best Day") and "Silver in Your Hand") were released as singles, with "Mot hav" (English: "To Unknown Seas") and "Silver i din hand" (English: "Den bästa Dagen") topping the top ten hits. She received the coveted Best Swedish Female award in 1986 and began a new tour as a solo artist in New Zealand.

Fredriksson had established herself as a well-known soloist, Gessle's solo debut in 1984 failed to replicate Gyllene Tider's popularity; his second studio album Scener (1985) sold fewer than 20,000 copies, down from the 400,000 copies sold by Moderna tider four years ago. Rolf Nygren, the EMI Sweden's managing director, suggested that Gessle translate one of his Swedish songs to English and record it as a duet with Fredriksson. The resultant album, "Neverending Love," was released under the band name Roxette, which Gyllene Tider had used to announce The Heartland Café in North America in 1984. The track peaked at number three on the Swedish Singles Chart, and it was one of the year's most popular songs on Swedish radio. Pearls of Passion, the band's debuting in October 1986, topped number two and later sold over 200,000 copies, but it failed to chart internationally. Roxette began a 14-date co-headlining tour with Eva Dahlgren and Ratata in the summer of 1987, "Rock Runt riket" ("Rock Around the Kingdom"), a 10-day tour.

Fredriksson's third studio album,... Efter stormen (English: After the Storm), was released in October 1987. It soared to the top of the charts and sold more than 50,000 copies within a month of being announced, and the Swedish Recording Industry Association praised it as platinum for exports in excess of 100,000 units. Both the title track and "Bara för en dag" (English: "Just for a Day") were top ten hits on Svensktoppen, and she promoted the album with a sold-out concert tour. On October 21, 1988, Roxette released their second studio album, Look Sharp! It was an immediate commercial success in Sweden, selling over 140,000 copies within ten days of its launch, but it struggled to chart globally.

EMI launched Den flygande holland (The Flying Dutchman), a tribute to musician Cornelis Vreeswijk, who died in the previous year. Fredriksson appeared on the compilation three songs. "Felicia – Adjö," one of these "felicia – Adjö," was her first number one on Svensktoppen. Den flygande holländaren climbed to number two in Sweden for three weeks in a row, but Look Sharp! held first place. There was a double platinum award for the collection, denoting exports in excess of 200,000 units. When it was released in February 1989, the non-album single "Sparvöga" ("Sparrow-eye") was recorded as the theme music for a miniseries of the same name, and it became both her highest-peaking and best-selling single to date. Fredriksson received the award for Pop/Rock Female at the 1989 Grammis, Sweden's equivalent of the Grammy Awards, as well as the Best Swedish Female award for the fourth year in a row.

"Look" was the third single from Look Sharp's "The Look." Since being released in January 1989, she was a top ten hit in Sweden. Despite the fact that the track had not signed a recording deal in the United States, the group's local branch of EMI had previously dismissed Roxette as "unsuitable for the American market." A Minnesota exchange student returned from Sweden and begged for the song by his local Minneapolis-based Top 40 radio station. The song quickly became popular, and the station began broadcasting the song to their sister radio stations around the country. "The Look" took the top chart after just eight weeks and then went on to become the most coveted in a total of 25 nations. The single's parent album has since sold over 9 million copies around the world. "Listen to Your Heart" was the band's second top-ten on the Hot 100, while "Dangerous," the band's final single, spent two weeks at number two. Fredriksson appeared on stage in 1989 as part of The Husbands, a cover band formed by Lasse Lindbom and Niklas Strömstedt.

Fredriksson wrote a tribute to the tribute album Taube in 1990. "The Sea Was Never So Sparkling") was a cover of Evert Taube's "Senskimrande var aldrig havet" ("The Sea Was Never So Sparkling") was included in the Evert Taube's composition "S' skimrande var aldrig havet." Touchstone Pictures asked Gessle to write a song for the forthcoming film Pretty Woman in the same year. As he didn't have time to write a new song, Roxette's first international concert tour began in 1987—a new iteration of their 1987 single "It Must Have Been Love" was released, and it was prominently in the film. The track debuted as one of Roxette's most popular and best singles on the Hot 100, and it remains one of the country's best-known and most lucrative singles. The pair's third album, Joyride, was the most commercially released and has over 11 million copies around the world. The title track ranked them at number one on the Hot 100 for their fourth and final number one, while "Every Time You Leave" peaked at number two, putting them at number two. The album was released by the "Join the Joyride." The tour is the country's biggest and most varied tour.

Following the recording of Roxette's fourth album, Tourism, Fredriksson returned to solo work. She appeared on "Angel Land"), a Band Aid-style recording spearheaded by former ABBA vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad under the banner Artister för Environment), which was released in July 1992. During a nationally broadcast gala the following month, she appeared on stage alongside all of the other featured artists. Den permanenta resan (The Eternal Journey), Fredriksson's fourth solo album, was released in October and remains her highest-selling and most critically acclaimed solo studio album, with sales of over 185,000 copies in Sweden as of 2002. At the 1993 Grammis, she was nominated for three awards, including Songwriter of the Year and Artist of the Year, the latter winning the latter. "Song As It's On the Other Side" ("Between Summer and Autumn") and "Mellan sommar och höst" ("Between Summer and Fall") were released as commercial singles, with the former song, "So Still, So Slow") and "It's Raining Again" ("Between Summer and Autumn") also top ten hits on Svensktoppan. She toured in favor of the record.

"Herren ber för dig," Mikael Bolyos' first musical collaboration ("The Lord Prays for You") was published in November 1994 on the charitable compilation Vilda för dig," the proceeds of which were donated to children's hospitals in Nordic countries. She appeared with Bolyos' band Sugarcane during their concert residency in Halmstad nightclub Penny Lane next year. She appeared on several of Bolyos' original compositions and numerous cover versions, including "The Good Life."

Fredriksson and Bolyos' fifth solo album, I en tid som vs. (In a Time Like Ours), was recorded in Djursholm between February and September 1996. When it was announced in November, she was eight months pregnant, so she was unable to market it. The album debuted on top of the charts for the second week on Sverigetopplicstan, and lead singer "Tro" became the longest-charting song of her career on the Swedish Singles Chart, either as a solo artist or as part of Roxette; it reached number eight and spent a total of 29 weeks on the chart. "All My Best Years" – Anni-Frid Lyngstad's 1996 album "All My Best Years") was released as a single in February 1997.

Fredriksson and Gessle performed on a new Roxette album in 1997 and 1998; Have a Nice Day was first released in February 1999. She was more involved in the creation and execution of the album than on previous Roxette debuts, appearing at numerous demos in her Djursholm studio and singing lead vocals on ten of the album's fourteen songs. "Waiting for the Rain," the first Roxette song written and composed solely by Fredriksson, is included on the album. The pair signed a new recording deal with their long-time company EMI, which saw Fredriksson receive the copyright for her entire solo discography prior to the album's debut. The recording of the album was said to be lengthy and painful, with Fredriksson later publicly condemning co-producer Michael Ilbert's "I wound up under his thumb." Clarence fwerman, Per and [Roxette's regular producer] would only contact him. He told everybody that my voice was poor, that I needed to re-record vocals, and that my songs weren't strong enough. Before I started weeping, he mocked me. "I lost all of my confidence and was no longer happies in Roxette," the author says.

Marie Fredrikssons bästa 1984-2000, her first greatest hits album, came out in 2000, and it was the country's second best-selling album after the Beatles compilation 1. It was also one of the country's best-selling albums of 2001, and it was also rated triple platinum for deliveries of over 250,000 units. Both of the new songs on the compilation, "ntligen" ("Finally") and "Det Som var Nu" ("That Was Now") were minor hits. Patrik Isaksson appeared in the latter video, which was a Swedish re-recording of a demo originally made by Fredriksson for Have a Nice Day. With a Swedish tour, the album was boosted.

Roxette's seventh album, Room Service, was released in 2001. Despite Ilbert's absence for this album's release, Marie later said she "lost all desire to continue Roxette" and would return to the recording studio as often as possible; she told her taxi driver to stand outside while recording vocals for "Milk and Toast and Honey." The album was supported by a European tour, and Fredriksson "called for a meeting" with Gessle, where she discussed disbanding Roxette, which Gessle accepted. In June 2002, she released Kärlekens guld (Love's Gold), a box set containing all of her previous studio albums. The Ballad Hits and The Pop Hits, two new compilation albums that were to be launched with performances at the 2002 edition of the pan-European orchestral concert series "Night of the Proms," Roxette announced the availability of two new compilation albums, The Ballad Hits and The Pop Hits. On September 12, 2002, Roxette's "swan song" was set to take place in the Netherlands, according to a press conference.

Fredriksson complained of getting sick after jogging with her husband on September 11, 2002. She collapsed in a toilet after becoming nauseous, as a result of the fall fractured her cranium. She had an epileptic seizure shortly after. Scans discovered a brain tumor in the back of her head later. Roxette's "Night of the Proms" appearances were postponed due to the illness. She underwent successful surgery to remove the tumor, which was malignant, after waiting many weeks for the effects of the fracture and concussion to fade, and she endured months of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

In January 2003, King of Sweden Carl Gustaf XVI awarded Roxette the Litteris et Artibus (Culture and Education) award. Both Gessle and Fredriksson attended the funeral, which was the first event Fredriksson attended after her operation and one of the few public appearances she made in the next two years. The lasting effects of the tumor included her being blind in one eye and limited hearing and mobility, as well as being unable to read or write. After her recovery, she was also unable to speak for a long time. Fredriksson conducted an interview with Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet on October 21, 2005, saying, "I've been three very difficult years [but] I'm well. I'm no longer being treated for medical care."

Fredriksson and Bolyos began working on their next studio album as a form of therapy at their home studio in Djursholm following her diagnosis and therapy. Change debuted as the top of the Swedish Album Chart and was rated gold for shipments in excess of 30,000 units. It was the country's 18th best-selling album. Several of the songs included were debuting during Fredriksson's live appearances with Sugarcane in the mid-1990s. It was also her first studio album to be released around the world. "2nd Chance," the lead singer's album, was a top ten hit in Sweden. Fredriksson rediscovered her love of drawing during her illness, and began using charcoal to create art as another form of therapy. At the vernissage of the Doktor Glas gallery in Kungsträdg, Stockholm, she drew the cover art, accompanying The Change and held her first art exhibition, titled "After the Change" on the front page. By the end of the second day, every painting on display had been sold. In both Stockholm and Gothenburg in 2008, she held further art shows titled "A Table in the Sun."

Min bäste vän (My Best Friend), her first album of Swedish cover songs, debuted on the Swedish Albums Chart in February 2006. Later this year, she collaborated with Gessle on the recording of two new Roxette songs, "One Wish" and "Reveal," which were included on the best hits compilation A Collection of Roxette Hits: Their 20 Greatest Hits! Fredriksson appeared on several tracks of Bolyos' debut solo album A Family Affair, which was released in June 2007. Tid för tystnad – Marie Fredriksson's Ballads, Fredriksson's Swedish-language solo material released in November by Capitol Records. The collection included two previously unreleased tracks, one of which, "Ordet är farväl" ("The Word Is Goodbye"), was based on a lyric Py Bäckman's 1984 work Het vind.

In August 2008, "Där Du andas" ("Where You Breathe") was released as the film Arn's End theme song, and Fredriksson's first number one single in her home country. She appeared in the "Stjärnklart" ("Starlit") series of concerts in the winter of 2008, which culminated in her abbreviated set appearances with other vocalists in Swedish concert halls. During a concert of his "Party Crasher Tour" in May 2009, she joined Gessle on-stage at the Melkweg in Amsterdam to perform acoustic interpretations of several Roxette songs. Gessle announced to Aftonbladet that Roxette will appear on "Night of the Proms" in 2009 immediately after the show. Expressen announced that the pair had been recording material for a new album since May 2009.

On June 18, 2010, the two couples reunited for a private performance at the Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling at Stockholm Palace. In the summer of 2010, Roxette began a seven-date tour of Europe. "She's Got Nothing On (But the Radio)" was released in January 2011, becoming a big hit in mainland Europe and Germany's highest-peaking single since 1992's "How Do You Do It!" Charm School, their eighth studio album, will be released next month. "The Neverending World Tour," the country's first world tour in fifteen years, began in March 2011 and ended in February 2016. In March 2012, Travelling, another studio album, was released. Fredriksson performed "nnu doftar kärlek" at the Wedding of Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill in June 2013.

In November, she released Nu!

(Now!

Her first album of original Swedish music since 1996. It was backed by a nineteen-date tour of Swedish concert halls, her first solo concerts since 2000.

Good Karma, Roxette's tenth studio album, was released in June 2016, and it was scheduled to be promoted in Europe on a European tour to honor the duo's 30th anniversary. However, these concerts were postponed after Fredriksson's doctors advised him to suspend all touring activity due to her poor health. "Unfortunately, now that my touring days are over, and I'd like to say a huge thank you to our [have] followed us on our long and winding journey," she said. Fredriksson released three non-album singles after she announced her retirement from touring: "Alone Again" and "I Want to Go" in 2017, and "Sing Me a Song" in 2018.

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Awards and nominations

• Rockbjörnen Awards