ABBA

Es un grupo de pop sueco de Stockholm en 1972 por Agnetha Fältskog, Björn

Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. El nombre del grupo
proviene del acronimo de las iniciales de cada uno de los integrantes.

Ellos se convirtieron en uno de los grupos comercialmente más exitosos en

musica popular posicionandose en las listas más importantes entre 1974 y
1982.
 Benny
Andersson, Anni-
Frid Lyngstad,
Agnetha
Fältskog,
and Björn
Ulvaeus
BBC conmemorando 40 años de su debut
• When you’ve sold as many records as Abba have – and only The
Beatles have sold more – specific figures become hazy. They
disappear into a statistical stratosphere occupied by a tiny elite of
global megastars. There are simply too many territories to report on,
too many releases to keep track of, too many vast numbers to juggle.
• All one can say with any certainty is that the Swedish quartet have
sold in excess of 380m albums and singles since they first came to
prominence 40 years ago this month, winning the 1974 Eurovision
Song Contest with a performance of Waterloo
Waterfloo ABBA primer
exito commercial de la
agrupacion en 1974.
• ABBA fue el primer grupo proveniento de un pais de habla no inglesa
en lograr exito constant en listas de musica popular en los paises de
habla inglesa como lo son: United
Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa y
United States.
• Durante los años de actividad de la banda, el grupo estaba formado
de dos parejas : Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus, y Anni-Frid
Lyngstad and Benny Andersson. Con la popularidad y los eventos sus
vidas personales sufrieron mucha exposicion al público lo que result
en un colapso de sus relaciones sentimentales de ambos.
• Es la piesa de aperture al tercer
album del grupo ABBA. El
nombre de la cancion proviene
de una expression italiana usada
para denotar situaciones de
sorpresa, angustia o susto.
• Su Tercer exito commercial a
gran escala fue Dancing Queen:
En culla session de grabacion el
demo se llamaria “Boogaloo” y
se inicio a grabar el 4 de Agosto
de 1975. Andersson y Ulvaeus
encontraron inspiracion en los
Ritmos de George McCrae’s –
“Rock your Baby” Y "Sing My
Way Home" by Delaney and
Bonnie
• Se lanzó el 2 de Octubre 1979
• was written and composed
by Benny Andersson and Björn
Ulvaeus, with the lead vocal sung
by Agnetha Fältskog.
• Anni-Frid Lyngstad
• sang from the age of 13 with various dance bands, and
worked mainly in a jazz-oriented cabaret style. She also
formed her own band, the Anni-Frid Four. In the middle of
1967, she won a national talent competition with "En ledig
dag" ("A Day Off") a Swedish version of the bossa nova
song "A Day in Portofino", which is included in the EMI
compilation Frida 1967–1972. The first prize was a
recording contract with EMI Sweden and to perform live
on the most popular TV shows in the country.Lyngstad
toured and performed regularly in the folkpark circuit and
made appearances on radio and TV. She met Ulvaeus
briefly in 1963 during a talent contest, and Fältskog during
a TV show in early 1968.
• Lyngstad linked up with her future bandmates in 1969. On
1 March 1969, she participated in the Melodifestival,
where she met Andersson for the first time. A few weeks
later they met again during a concert tour in southern
Sweden and they soon became a couple. Andersson
produced her single "Peter Pan" in September 1969. as
they had written the song. Andersson would then produce
Lyngstad's debut studio album, Frida, which was released
in March 1971.
• Agnetha Fältskog
• Cantaba y bailaba con un grupo local
dirigido por Bernt Enghardt quien
envió un recording debo a una
banda llamaba Karl Gerhard
Lundkvist. El demo de la cancion “I
was so in Love” (originalmente"Jag
var så kär“) el Grupo Lundkvist
decidio firmarla y asi hacer la
producción que vendio 80000 copias
en el primer mes. Con las criticas y
de mas fue adquiriendo fama en la
industria de la música. Durante un
Film sueco para television conció a
Ulvaeus y 2 años despues se casaron
el 6 de Julio de 1971.
• Benny Andersson
• (born 16 December 1946 in Stockholm,
Sweden) became (at age 18) a member of
a popular Swedish pop-rock group,
the Hep Stars, that performed covers,
amongst other things, of international
hits.[19] The Hep Stars were known as "the
Swedish Beatles".[20] They also set up Hep
House, their equivalent of Apple Corps.
Andersson played the keyboard and
eventually started writing original songs
for his band, many of which became
major hits, including "No Response" that
hit number-three in 1965, "Sunny Girl",
"Wedding", and "Consolation", all of
which hit number-one in 1966
• Björn Ulvaeus
• also began his musical career at 18
(as a singer and guitarist), when he
fronted the Hootenanny Singers, a
popular Swedish folk–skiffle group.
Ulvaeus started writing English-
language songs for his group, and
even had a brief solo career
alongside. The Hootenanny Singers
and the Hep Stars sometimes crossed
paths while touring. In June 1966,
Ulvaeus and Andersson decided to
write a song together. Their first
attempt was "Isn't It Easy to Say", a
song later recorded by the Hep Stars.
Stig Anderson was the manager of
the Hootenanny Singers and founder
of the Polar Music label.