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Agnetha Faltskog
Birth at
5 April 1950
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You need to have a considerable degree of courage and endurance to maintain a professional relationship with the person who has stopped loving you. Once, thanks to the greatest love of her life, Agnetha Åse Fältskog agreed to participate in an unprecedented musical experiment, for which she left a solo career, and did not regret the fact that at first she had to content herself with the role of a backing vocalist. The alliance with the most talented composer, one of the best melodists in the world,
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You need to have a considerable degree of courage and endurance to maintain a professional relationship with the person who has stopped loving you. Once, thanks to the greatest love of her life, Agnetha Åse Fältskog agreed to participate in an unprecedented musical experiment, for which she left a solo career, and did not regret the fact that at first she had to content herself with the role of a backing vocalist. The alliance with the most talented composer, one of the best melodists in the world, Bjorn Ulvaeus, sounded a powerful musical chord in the fate of Agneta: in 1974, the blond charming singer sang at the Eurovision Song Contest, and from that day began her triumph - as part of the legendary group ABBA.
It all began magically and temptingly: April 5, 1950 in the family of manager Ingvar Feltskug and housewife Margareta Johansson, a daughter of Agnetha was born. Thanks to her father’s passion for music, the girl’s vocal talent did not go unnoticed. Moreover, at the age of 15, Agnetha became a soloist of the Bengt Engharts orchestra, and after a while she performed the role of Mary Magdalene in the Swedish production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. It was a breakthrough! Agnetha declared herself not only as a talented singer: she created musical compositions on her own poems, which later turned into solo albums (one of Agnetha's songs, Jag var så kär (I Was So in Love), in 1967 became a number one hit in Sweden).
In 1969, while filming on Swedish television, Agnetha met her husband.
Anni-Frid (Frida Ljungstad) and
Agneta’s voice often dominated the band’s most popular compositions. "The Winner Takes It All," "Happy New Year," "Thank You for the Music" and many more. Frida even recalled that she was a little upset when the composition was given to her colleague and rival, although she admitted that Agnetha coped with her task incomparably.
Fans of the band (and their numbers are still growing) wanted to believe that ABBA would always be there, but in 1979, just five years after it became the starting point of the performance, Bjorn and Agnetha divorced with two children. Agnetha left their home on Christmas Eve, but agreed to continue the project. ABBA continued as long as it was possible: after the breakup of the relationship between Frida and Benny, there was nothing left of the magnificent four.
In 1982, ABBA officially announced that the work of the group was over. For a while Agnetha tried to return to a solo career, but the success that she had with ABBA, to achieve failed. Even at home, her songs did not elicit the desired response. The singer closed in and did not appear in public for a long time - until April 2004: after seventeen years of lull, the world heard a new single from Agnetha: If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind. And, although after this recording and the release of the album with covers of songs of the 60s Agnetha again went into the shadows, her fans believe that she will return. /