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Today, The Watsons and The Grandma have continued preparing Rennette's candidature for Eurovision Song Contest. Although the Contest has been cancelled because of the COVID19, the family has decided to go on with this project and wait for the moment that things can be better. It is an interesting manner of thinking in other things and not in this pandemic.
The Grandma, who is in Hogwarts, is in total contact with The Watsons, who are in Barcelona, thanks to new technologies that connect people fast, well and efficiently. They have been talking about Eurovision winners to take ideas, compare projects and improve proposals.
More information: ABBA
ABBA is a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982.
ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, giving Sweden its first triumph in the contest. They are the most successful group to have taken part in the competition.
During the band's main active years, it was composed of two married couples: Fältskog and Ulvaeus, and Lyngstad and Andersson. With the increase of their popularity, their personal lives suffered which eventually resulted in the collapse of both marriages. The relationship changes were reflected in the group's music, with latter compositions featuring darker and more introspective lyrics.
After ABBA disbanded, Andersson and Ulvaeus achieved success writing music for the stage, while Lyngstad and Fältskog pursued solo careers. Ten years after their disbanding, a compilation, ABBA Gold was released, which became a worldwide bestseller.
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In 1999, ABBA's music was adapted into the successful musical Mamma Mia! that toured worldwide. A film of the same name, released in 2008, became the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom that year.
A sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, was released in 2018. That same year it was announced that the band had recorded two new songs after 35 years of being inactive.
Estimates of ABBA's total record sales are over 380 million, making them one of the best-selling music artists of all time. ABBA were the first group from a non-English-speaking country to achieve consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
They have a joint eight consecutive number-one albums in the UK. The group also enjoyed significant success in Latin America, and recorded a collection of their hit songs in Spanish.
More information: This Day in Music
ABBA were honoured at
the 50th anniversary celebration of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005,
when their hit Waterloo was chosen as the best song in the
competition's history.
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2015, their song Dancing Queen was inducted into the Recording Academy's Grammy Hall of Fame.
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2015, their song Dancing Queen was inducted into the Recording Academy's Grammy Hall of Fame.
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.
Björn Ulvaeus (born 25 April 1945 in Gothenburg, Sweden) also began his musical career at the age of 18 (as a singer and guitarist), when he fronted the Hootenanny Singers, a popular Swedish folk–skiffle group.
Agnetha Fältskog (born 5 April 1950 in Jönköping, Sweden) sang with a local dance band headed by Bernt Enghardt who sent a demo recording of the band to Karl Gerhard Lundkvist.
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Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad (born 15 November 1945 in Bjørkåsen in Ballangen, Norway) sang from the age of 13 with various dance bands, and worked mainly in a jazz-oriented cabaret style.
In 1973, Stig Anderson started to refer to the group privately and publicly as ABBA (a palindrome).
In 1973, Stig Anderson started to refer to the group privately and publicly as ABBA (a palindrome).
ABBA is an acronym formed from the first letters of each group member's first name: Agnetha, Björn, Benny, and Anni-Frid. The earliest known example of ABBA written on paper is on a recording session sheet from the Metronome Studio in Stockholm dated 16 October 1973. This was first written as Björn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida, but was subsequently crossed out with ABBA written in large letters on top.
Their official logo, distinct with the backward B, was designed by Rune Söderqvist, who designed most of ABBA's record sleeves. The ambigram first appeared on the French compilation album, Golden Double Album, released in May 1976 by Disques Vogue, and would henceforth be used for all official releases.
ABBA won their nation's hearts on Swedish television on 9 February 1974, and with this third attempt were far more experienced and better prepared for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest on 6 April 1974 and singing Waterloo in English instead of their native tongue gave ABBA the chance to tour Europe and perform on major television shows; thus the band saw the Waterloo single chart in many European countries.
I want people to remember ABBA as we were.
I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage
is what we should leave as our legacy.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
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