Sunday, January 3, 2010
Anni - Frid Lyngstad (70s): Part One
Anni - Frid Lyngstad was a born singer. She was a singer in Sweden during the 1960s, and was in the super Pop/Rock group ABBA. She is known as Frida, most of the time. She was born in Norway, during World War 2, on November 15th, 1945 in Bjørkåsen, Norway. On 3 April 1963, aged 17, Lyngstad married salesman and fellow musician Ragnar Fredriksson. They had two children: Hans Ragnar (born 26 January 1963) and Ann Lise-Lotte (25 February 1967 - 13 January 1998). They separated early in 1969 and were officially divorced on 19 May 1970. On the very same day, Lyngstad's grandmother, Arntine, died, aged 71. Her grandmother had raised her, since her mother died when little Frida was 2, and without knowing her father until she was 30 years old, in 1977. She herd that her father died in the war, and that his ship was sunken. She got romantically involved with Benny Andersson in 1969, and during that same year, they got engaged, but the did not marry until 1978. However, after only three years of marriage, they separated in February 1981 and were divorced in November of the same year. In 1982, Lyngstad left Sweden and moved to London. In 1986, she relocated to Switzerland. In 1988, Lyngstad became a grandmother when her daughter, Ann Lise-Lotte, gave birth to a son named Jonathan.
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