Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Released a song "the sun will shine again" with Jon Lord. [May 2005]

Is now involved with environmental causes and lives in Frilbourg, Switzerland. [2001]

Her second child, a 30-year-old daughter Ann Lise-Lotte Fredriksson, died in a car crash in state Detroit, USA on Janaury 13, 1998, a 13 days before her brother's 35th birthday.

Believed that her father had died when his ship to Germany was sunk during the war. After a German magazine published the story of her origins in 1977, she discovered that he had not died.

ABBA's only appearance on Saturday Night Live (1975) occurred on her thirtieth birthday.

As a member of ABBA, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, in 1974 with the song "Waterloo" (6th April 1974).

Gave birth her second child at age 21, a daughter Ann Lise-Lotte Fredriksson on February 25, 1967. Child's father is her first husband, Ragnar Fredriksson.

Gave birth to her first child at age 17, a son Hans Ragnar Fredriksson on January 26, 1963. Child's father is her first husband, Ragnar Fredriksson.

During World War II, a German officer had an affair with young Norwegian Synni Lyngstad. Once the war ended, he returned to his home country, unaware of the fact that Synni was pregnant with his child. Anni-Frid Lyngstad (or Frida, as she later became known) was born on November 15th, 1945 in the small town of Narvik in Norway. To escape post-war retributions dished out to "collaborators" and their children her mother took her to Sweden, Torshälla. When she was only two, Anni-Frid's mother died. Her grandmother (who had always encouraged her to sing) became responsible for raising her.