Post by Hygelac on Aug 7, 2006 5:49:37 GMT 10
I thought it was only fair to dedicate at least a small part of this music board to everyones favourite Calliphygean! :wink:
Agnetha Fältskog was born on April 5th, 1950 in the old Swedish city of Jönköping. She grew up in a rather musical enviroment, what with her father being a local amature theatre manager and started preforming locally at an early age. At 15 she joined Bernt Enghardts Orkester as a singer and was finally discovered by Little Gerhard after writing her first song entitled 'Jag var så kär' (English: I was so in love) which was a big hit in Swededn, at the age of 17 in 1967.
With Gerhard she had more and more hits and left Bernt Enghardts Orkester in 1968 upon moving to Stockholm.
Around this time she met and fell in love with teh German record producer Dieter Zimmerman. They were engaged in 1969 but broke up a few months later. The same year she met Björn Ulvaeus while on the show 'Jules Sylvain-kavalkad' and fell in love, getting engaged in 1970.
Agnetha married Björn in 1971. Benny Andersson played a self composed song at the wedding.
That same year the foundation stones for ABBA were being laid, and all members of the future band sang together as 'Festfolket' and then in 1972 realesed the first proper ABBA track 'People Need Love'
Also that year she starred as the Virgin Mary in the Swedish production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' to some success.
In 1973 Agnetha gave birth to her first child, a daughter called Linda.
Having a child put a strain on Agnetha who was torn between preforming with the group and being a mother. This caused problems in her marriage with Björn.
It was also around this time that she composed the song 'Disillusion' the only ABBA song that wasn't composed by Benny Andersson.
In an attempt to the salvage a failing marriage Agnetha and Björn made plans to have another child, who was eventually born in 1977. This did not however help matters and instead strained the marriage even more.
In 1979 Agnetha joined the other ABBA members on a tour of North America and Europe, which was difficult for her as she was afraid of flying. She did however take limousines rather than fly with the others while in America, and was noticebly absent from the others, preffering to stay in the pools of the hotels during her leisure time.
The tour proved a strain for her and so the children were brought along with the group.
The enevitable happened when Agnetha and Björn announced their divorce later in 1979. They divorced in 1980 but decided to carry on with the band.
In 1983 ABBA was no more, and like her co-star Anni-frid Lyngstad, Agnetha decided to resume her solo carear that had been put on hold during her time with ABBA having some reasonable hits in Europe with 'The Heat Is On' and 'Eyes Of A Woman'....this however didn't last long and she soon retired from the public eye to live a quite life with her family.
After some brief love affairs including one with her bodyguard, Agnetha married as urgeon called Tomas Sonnenfeld in 1988, and stayed with him until 1993.
She had a terrible time with a stalker Gert Van Der Graaf and so kept a very low profile.
She did however return with an album of her favourite songs in 2004, entitled 'My Colouring Book' though due to many reasons was not a large success.
Pictures:
^ 17 year old Agnetha
^ Agnetha's 'cat-suit'!
^ Agnetha in 1969 with Dieter Zimmerman
^ Agnetha and Bjorn shortly after the wedding.
^ Agnetha early on in her time with ABBA
^ Agnetha on stage!
^ Agnetha tickles the ivory!
^ Agnetha enjoying some champagne in the 1980s
Agnetha Fältskog was born on April 5th, 1950 in the old Swedish city of Jönköping. She grew up in a rather musical enviroment, what with her father being a local amature theatre manager and started preforming locally at an early age. At 15 she joined Bernt Enghardts Orkester as a singer and was finally discovered by Little Gerhard after writing her first song entitled 'Jag var så kär' (English: I was so in love) which was a big hit in Swededn, at the age of 17 in 1967.
With Gerhard she had more and more hits and left Bernt Enghardts Orkester in 1968 upon moving to Stockholm.
Around this time she met and fell in love with teh German record producer Dieter Zimmerman. They were engaged in 1969 but broke up a few months later. The same year she met Björn Ulvaeus while on the show 'Jules Sylvain-kavalkad' and fell in love, getting engaged in 1970.
Agnetha married Björn in 1971. Benny Andersson played a self composed song at the wedding.
That same year the foundation stones for ABBA were being laid, and all members of the future band sang together as 'Festfolket' and then in 1972 realesed the first proper ABBA track 'People Need Love'
Also that year she starred as the Virgin Mary in the Swedish production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar' to some success.
In 1973 Agnetha gave birth to her first child, a daughter called Linda.
Having a child put a strain on Agnetha who was torn between preforming with the group and being a mother. This caused problems in her marriage with Björn.
It was also around this time that she composed the song 'Disillusion' the only ABBA song that wasn't composed by Benny Andersson.
In an attempt to the salvage a failing marriage Agnetha and Björn made plans to have another child, who was eventually born in 1977. This did not however help matters and instead strained the marriage even more.
In 1979 Agnetha joined the other ABBA members on a tour of North America and Europe, which was difficult for her as she was afraid of flying. She did however take limousines rather than fly with the others while in America, and was noticebly absent from the others, preffering to stay in the pools of the hotels during her leisure time.
The tour proved a strain for her and so the children were brought along with the group.
The enevitable happened when Agnetha and Björn announced their divorce later in 1979. They divorced in 1980 but decided to carry on with the band.
In 1983 ABBA was no more, and like her co-star Anni-frid Lyngstad, Agnetha decided to resume her solo carear that had been put on hold during her time with ABBA having some reasonable hits in Europe with 'The Heat Is On' and 'Eyes Of A Woman'....this however didn't last long and she soon retired from the public eye to live a quite life with her family.
After some brief love affairs including one with her bodyguard, Agnetha married as urgeon called Tomas Sonnenfeld in 1988, and stayed with him until 1993.
She had a terrible time with a stalker Gert Van Der Graaf and so kept a very low profile.
She did however return with an album of her favourite songs in 2004, entitled 'My Colouring Book' though due to many reasons was not a large success.
Pictures:
^ 17 year old Agnetha
^ Agnetha's 'cat-suit'!
^ Agnetha in 1969 with Dieter Zimmerman
^ Agnetha and Bjorn shortly after the wedding.
^ Agnetha early on in her time with ABBA
^ Agnetha on stage!
^ Agnetha tickles the ivory!
^ Agnetha enjoying some champagne in the 1980s