Overview
- Media mark the birthday of the singer known as Frida with profiles that foreground her artistry and influence.
- She rose to global fame when ABBA won Eurovision with Waterloo in Brighton in 1974, anchoring a run of worldwide hits and the 2021 ABBA Voyage return in London.
- Born in 1945 in northern Norway to a Norwegian mother and a German soldier, she was raised by her grandmother in Sweden.
- After ABBA’s split, she pursued solo work, notably the 1982 album Something’s Going On produced by Phil Collins.
- Personal losses in the late 1990s led to a largely private life in Switzerland and southern Sweden with sustained philanthropic work, and in 2024 she received Sweden’s Royal Wasa Order with her ABBA bandmates.