So, ABBA is a swedish pop group of the 70s and the early 80s (1970-1982). The members of this group are Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus.
Before ABBA, Bjorn was member of the Hootenanny Singers, a swedish folk group. In 1966, he met Benny who was member of the Hep Stars, an other swedish group. The two guys discovered that they were the same kind of people, so they became BFF and decided to compose music together.
Agnetha and Frida sang in solo carriers (I think Frida made Jazz and Agnetha variety, but I'm not sure). In 1969, Agnetha met Bjorn and Frida met Benny.
In 1970, the two couples went in vacation in Cyprus. That's there they got the idea to form a group. Agnetha and Bjorn got married in 1971. ABBA first did the Festfolket in 1970 or 1971 and then made their first songs (in Swedish) as a real group. But the song you can really consider as the first real ABBA's song is People Need Love (1972) because the two girls sing and the guys play,like in almost all the ABBA's songs.
Then in 1973, they made their first album, Ring Ring, and suscribed to the Melodifestivalen which is the swedish contest to represent Sweden at the ESC (Eurovision Song Contest). Unfortunately, ABBA didn't manage in win with the song Ring Ring. The same year, Agnetha and Bjorn's daughter, Linda, was born.
Our four favorites Swedes finally became famous in 1974 with winning the ESC with Waterloo.
To be continued in an other post... ;)
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