ABBA are one of Sweden’s best-loved music exports and they have been in the charts for decades. Everyone knows ABBA, and could even hum one of their tunes – whether it’s Dancing Queen or Super Trouper. But one of the band’s members, it turns out, has royalty and fame in her blood.

SWEDEN – ABBA is one of Sweden’s best-loved music exports and they have been in the charts for decades. Everyone knows ABBA, and could even hum one of their tunes – whether it’s Dancing Queen or Super Trouper. But one of the band’s members, it turns out, has royalty and fame in her blood.

Anni-Frid Lyngstad, better known as Frida, is officially Princess Anne-Frid Synni of Reuss, Countess of Plauen. Most people will know Frida from the band, and remember her short-lived marriage to Benny Andersson, one of the band’s members. The pair met in 1969, were living together by 1971 and married in 1978, after which they split with just two years of marriage under their belt.

WHAT ABOUT THE REUNION?

Despite ABBA’s two new songs “I Still Have Faith in You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down” having been recorded already, they still have not been released despite a promised Spring 2019 launch of the “Abbatars” project and the new songs. Fans are now going to have to wait even longer, as Björn has confirmed that we won’t see either until sometime in 2020.