Accordian Player in Mama Mia
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| Built-in | Göran Bror Benny Andersson (1946-12-16) 16 December 1946 Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Years active | 1964–present |
| Spouse(due south) | Anni-Frid (Frida) Lyngstad (m. 1978; div. 1981) Mona Nörklit (chiliad. 1981) |
| Partner(s) | Christina Grönvall (1961–1966) |
| Children | 3 |
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Göran Bror Benny Andersson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbɛ̌nːʏ ˈânːdɛˌʂɔn] ( 
listen ); born xvi Dec 1946) is a Swedish vocalizer, musician, composer, producer, member of the Swedish music group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 picture version of Mamma Mia! and its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Get Once more, he worked besides as an executive producer. Since 2001, he has been active with his own band Benny Anderssons orkester.
Early on life [edit]
Göran Bror Benny Andersson was born 16 Dec 1946 in the Vasastan district of Stockholm to civil engineer Gösta Andersson (1912–1973) and his wife Laila (1920–1971). His sister Eva-Lis Andersson followed in 1948. Andersson's musical background comes from his father and grandfather (Efraim); they both enjoyed playing the accordion, and at six, Benny got his own. His male parent and granddaddy taught him Swedish folk music, traditional music, and schlager. The starting time records Benny bought were "Du Bist Musik" by Italian schlager vocalist Caterina Valente and Elvis Presley'due south "Jailhouse Rock".[1] He was peculiarly impressed past the flip side, "Treat Me Squeamish", as this featured a piano. This multifariousness of different kinds of music influenced him through the years.
At 10, Andersson got his ain piano and taught himself to play. He left school at 15 and began to perform at youth clubs. This is when he met his first girlfriend Christina Grönvall, with whom he had two children: Peter (built-in 1963) and Heléne (built-in 1965). In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined "Elverkets Spelmanslag" ("The Electricity Board Folk Music Group"); the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments. Their repertoire consisted mainly of instrumentals, including "Baby Elephant Walk";[ commendation needed ] he likewise wrote his first songs.
Career [edit]
Hep Stars (1964–1969) [edit]
In October 1964 he joined the Hep Stars as keyboardist and they fabricated a breakthrough in March 1965 with their hit "Cadillac", eventually condign the most celebrated of the Swedish 1960s popular bands. Andersson secured his place equally the band's keyboardist and musical driving forcefulness likewise as a teen idol. The ring performed mostly covers of international hits, but Andersson soon started writing his ain material, and gave the band the classic hits "No Response", "Sunny Girl", "Wedding", "Alleviation", "It'south Nice To Be Back" and "She Volition Love You lot," among others.
Before ABBA (1969–1972) [edit]
Andersson met Björn Ulvaeus in June 1966, and the ii men started writing songs together, their first beingness "Isn't It Easy To Say", somewhen recorded by the Hep Stars. He also had a fruitful songwriting collaboration with Lasse Berghagen, with whom he wrote several songs and submitted "Hej, Clown" for the 1969 Melodifestivalen – the Swedish Eurovision Song Festival finals. The song finished in second identify. During this contest, he met vocaliser Anni-Frid Lyngstad, and they soon became a couple. Around the same time, his songwriting companion Ulvaeus met vocalizer Agnetha Fältskog.
The personal relationships and Andersson and Ulvaeus' songwriting collaboration led quite naturally to the very close cooperation which the four friends had during the following years. Benny and Björn scored their first hits as songwriters in the spring of 1969: "Ljuva sextital" (a hit with Brita Borg) and "Speleman" (a hitting for the Hep Stars). As the two couples began supporting each other during recording sessions, the sound of the women's voices convinced the songwriters to model their 'group' on various MOR acts such equally Blue Mink, Eye of the Road and Sweetness. Thus, ABBA came to life.
ABBA (1972–1982) [edit]
Andersson on 'The Eddy Go Round Bear witness' in 1975.
The group'due south quantum came with winning the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with "Waterloo" on half dozen April 1974. During the next eight years, Andersson (together with Ulvaeus) wrote music for and produced eight studio albums with ABBA. The group achieved great success globally and scored a concatenation of No. one hits.
With ABBA, Benny sang lead song on just one song - "Suzy-Hang-Effectually", from the Waterloo anthology. [2]
After ABBA: Chess, Kristina and Mamma Mia! (1983–nowadays) [edit]
After ABBA, Andersson continued writing music with Ulvaeus. Their first project was the stage musical Chess, written with Tim Rice. The Chess concept album – with vocals by Elaine Paige, Barbara Dickson, Murray Head and Swedes Tommy Körberg and Björn Skifs – was released in October 1984, selling two one thousand thousand copies worldwide. The Paige/Dickson duet "I Know Him And so Well" became a major Uk No. 1 striking, and Murray Head's "One Dark in Bangkok" gave Andersson/Ulvaeus a United states of america No. 3 hit.
Chess was staged in London's West Stop Prince Edward Theatre in May 1986 and received mixed to positive reviews, running for about three years. A revised staging on Broadway in April 1988 received poor reviews, running for two months.
In 1985, Andersson produced and released an album with brother and sister Anders and Karin Glenmark, featuring new songs by Andersson/Ulvaeus. The duo named themselves Gemini, and a 2nd album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in Apr 1987, containing the big hit "Mio My Mio"; besides to be plant on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the State of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.
In 1987, Andersson released his first solo anthology Klinga Mina Klockor ("Chime, My Bells"). All the music was written by and performed past himself on squeeze box, backed past the Orsa Spelmän (Orsa Folk Musicians) on fiddles. A second solo album followed: November 1989.
In 1990, Andersson scored a Swedish No. ane hitting with "Lassie", sung past female cabaret group Ainbusk, for whom he besides wrote the Svensktoppen hits "Älska Mig" and "Drömmarnas Golv". He decided to produce an anthology with Josefin Nilsson from this quartet, resulting in the 1993 English-language album Shapes, featuring ten new Andersson/Ulvaeus compositions.
In 1992, he wrote the introduction tune for the European football title, which was organised past Sweden that year.
From the late 1980s, Andersson had worked on an idea for an epic Swedish linguistic communication musical based on his affection for traditional folk music, and in October 1995, Kristina från Duvemåla premiered in Sweden. The musical was based on The Emigrants novels by Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg. The musical ran successfully for almost 5 years, before closing in June 1999. An English language-language version, simply titled Kristina, was staged in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City for two nights in September 2009, yielding a alive recording, and at the Imperial Albert Hall for ane dark in April 2010.
Andersson'due south side by side projection was Mamma Mia!, a musical congenital around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has get a worldwide box-role blockbuster, with versions in several languages being played in many countries, including the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland (Due west Cease premiere in April 1999), Canada (Toronto premiere in 2000), the United states (Broadway premiere in 2001), and Sweden (Swedish linguistic communication premiere in 2005).
For the 2004 semi-concluding of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years subsequently ABBA had won the competition in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled "Our Last Video". Each of the four members of the group appeared briefly in cameo roles, every bit did others such equally Cher and Rik Mayall. The video was not included in the official DVD release of the Eurovision Contest, but was issued as a split DVD release. It was billed as the first fourth dimension the four had worked together since the group separate; nonetheless, Frida'south appearance was filmed separately.
A film version of Mamma Mia! premiered on xviii July 2008. In Apr/May 2007, Andersson worked on the film soundtrack, re-recording the ABBA songs with musicians from the original ABBA recording sessions. Mamma Mia! The Movie has go the nigh successful moving-picture show musical of all fourth dimension, and the biggest-selling DVD ever in the UK.
Benny Anderssons Orkester (2001–nowadays) [edit]
Benny Anderssons Orkester at a concert in Minnesota in 2006
Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, Benny Anderssons Orkester ("Benny Andersson's orchestra", BAO), with fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm (of Kristina from Duvemåla) and Tommy Körberg (of Chess), with lyrics to new fabric sometimes written by Björn Ulvaeus. BAO has released five albums to huge success in Sweden, all containing striking singles.
In 2009 BAO achieved a new record in Sweden on the Svensktoppen chart by staying in that location for 243 weeks with the song "Du är min human being" ("You Are My Man"), sung by Sjöholm.[3]
New compositions (1984–present) [edit]
Andersson composes primarily for his band BAO, with vocalists Sjöholm and Körberg, simply he keeps his older material alive by re-visiting it, every bit in Mamma Mia! and the Swedish version of Chess.
For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two songs from 1984 and 1987. Andersson and Ulvaeus have continuously been writing new material; nearly recently the ii wrote vii songs for Andersson'due south BAO 2011 album O klang och jubeltid, performed as usual by vocalists Sjöholm, Körberg and Kalle Moraeus. In July 2009, BAO, now named "The Benny Andersson Ring", released their first international record, the album The Story of a Heart. It was a compilation of 14 tracks from Andersson's 5 Swedish-linguistic communication releases between 1987 and 2007, including five songs now recorded with lyrics by Ulvaeus in English language, and the new title song premiered on BBC2's Ken Bruce Show. A Swedish-language version of the title track, "Sommaren Du Fick" ("The Summertime You Got"), was released every bit a single in Sweden prior to the English version, with vocals by Helen Sjöholm.
In the spring of 2009, Andersson also released a single recorded past the staff at his privately owned Stockholm hotel Hotel Rival, titled "2nd Best to None", accompanied by a video showing the staff at work. In 2008, Andersson and Ulvaeus wrote a song for Swedish singer Sissela Kyle, titled "Jag vill bli gammal" ("I Wanna Grow Old"), for her Stockholm stage show "Your Days Are Numbered", which was never recorded and released only did get a TV performance. Ulvaeus also contributed lyrics to ABBA'due south 1976 instrumental track "Arrival" for Sarah Brightman'south cover version recorded for her 2008 album A Winter Symphony. New English language lyrics accept besides been written for Andersson'south 1999 song "Innan Gryningen" (then also named "Millennium Hymn"), with the new title "The Silence of the Dawn" for Barbara Dickson was performed live, but not yet recorded and released. In 2007, they wrote the new vocal "Han som har vunnit allt" ("He Who'south Won Information technology All") for actor and vocaliser Anders Ekborg. Ulvaeus wrote English lyrics for two older songs from Andersson's solo albums I Walk with You Mama ("Stockholm by Nighttime", 1989) and After the Rain ("Efter regnet", 1987) for opera singer Anne Sofie Von Otter, for her Andersson tribute album I Permit the Music Speak. Barbara Dickson recorded an Ulvaeus and Andersson song chosen "The Day The Wall Came Tumbling Down"; the song eventually was released by Australian Mamma Mia! musical star Anne Forest's album of ABBA covers, Divine Discontent. As of Oct 2012, Ulvaeus had mentioned writing new material with Andersson for a BAO Christmas release (likewise mentioned equally a BAO box), and Andersson is busy writing music for a Swedish language obscure musical, Hjälp Sökes ("Aid is Wanted") together with Kristina Lugn and Lars Rudolfsson, premiering 8 Feb 2013. Andersson has also written music for a documentary film almost Olof Palme, re-recording the runway "Sorgmarch" from his last album as a theme throughout the film. The vocal "Kärlekens Tid", recorded 2004 by Helen Sjöholm with BAO, has also been performed in concert in English (lyrics by Ylva Eggehorn) past opera baritone Bryn Terfel. On 15 April 2013, information technology was officially announced past the EBU and the SVT that Andersson, along with Ulvaeus and the tardily Stockholm based DJ and record producer Avicii, had composed the anthem for the 2013 Eurovision Vocal Competition. The song was performed for the first time in the Final on eighteen May.[four]
A new album of Andersson compositions presented in a choral way was released on 18 September 2015. "Kärlekens Tid" was produced in Andersson's Mono Music studio, nether the management of choirmaster Gustaf Sjökvist, who died before the album's release. Gustaf Sjökvists Choir, conducted by Cecilia Rydinger Alin, performed two concerts at Skeppsholmen on 20 September, featuring Benny Andersson on piano. The album includes songs in Swedish and English from a range of Andersson's projects, such as Chess, Kristina and BAO.
In Nov 2018, Deutsche Grammophon released Pianoforte, a collection of ABBA tunes, tunes from Chess and original compositions all played by Andersson on solo piano.
Andersson reunited with ABBA in 2018, and their new studio album Voyage was released in 2021.
Picture show music [edit]
Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television; the first endeavor in the early 1970s for the Swedish erotica movie The Seduction of Inga; the film was not a success, but the 'Björn & Benny' single "She's My Kind of Daughter" surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Superlative x hit (the song renamed in Japan as "The Little Girl of the Cold Wind").
In 1987, Andersson wrote music and co-produced the soundtrack with Anders Eljas for the moving-picture show Mio in the State of Faraway, based on Swedish author Astrid Lindgrens Mio, My Son. The title song became a huge hitting in Sweden for Gemini.
In 2000, he wrote the music for fellow Swede (no relation) Roy Andersson'south motion-picture show Songs from the Second Floor (the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO! with vocals by Helen Sjöholm). He too wrote the theme for Roy Andersson's adjacent film, You, the Living, from 2007.
Andersson worked on the pic adaptation of Mamma Mia!. He besides wrote the film score for the 2012 documentary Palme about Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.[5] He subsequently won a Guldbagge Award for All-time Original Score, for that film at the 48th Guldbagge Awards.[half-dozen]
Awards [edit]
Together with Ulvaeus, Andersson was nominated for a Drama Desk Honor in a category "Outstanding Music" (for the musical Chess), and for a Tony Award in a category "All-time Orchestrations" (for musical Mamma Mia!). Original bandage recordings of both musicals were nominated for a Grammy Award. Andersson/Ulvaeus besides won a Touring Broadway Accolade for the musical "Mamma Mia" (all-time score).
During his mail-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the "Special International" Ivor Novello award from 'The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters', twice "The Music Export Prize" from the Swedish Ministry building of Industry and Merchandise (2008),[7] as well as the "Lifetime Achievement" award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association (SMFF). In 2002, Andersson was given an honorary professorship by the Swedish Government for his "ability to create high-class music reaching people effectually the world".
In 2007, he was elected a member of Royal Swedish University of Music, and in 2008 received an Honorary Doctorate from the Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities for contributing chiefly both to the preservation and the growth of the Swedish folk music tradition.
On xv March 2010, Andersson appeared on phase in New York with former wife Anni-Frid Lyngstad to accept ABBA'southward award of consecration into the Rock and Gyre Hall of Fame. During his acceptance spoken communication he reflected on the important influence of traditional European music and the melancholy of the Swedish soul on ABBA'southward make of pop music. "If you lot live in a country similar Sweden, with five, six months of snow, and the sunday disappears totally for like two months, that would be reflected in the work of artists," he said. "It's definitely in the Swedish folk music, yous tin can hear it in the Russian folk songs, you lot can hear in the music from Jean Sibelius or Edvard Grieg from Norway, you can see information technology in the optics of Greta Garbo and you can hear it in the voice of Jussi Björling. And y'all can hear in the sound of Frida and Agnetha on some of our songs likewise."
In 2012, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the Luleå Tekniska Universitet Kinesthesia of Humanities and Social Sciences.[8]
Andersson won the Swedish "Guldbaggen" honour in 2012 as composer of the music for the film "Palme".[ix]
For his album Piano he received the Opus Klassik award in 2018.[10]
Personal life [edit]
Andersson with Lyngstad in 1976
Andersson was engaged to Christina Grönvall. In 1963, they had a son, Peter, and in 1965, a daughter, Heléne. Both children were given their female parent's surname. They dissever in 1966 and Christina kept custody of the children as Andersson was and then at the peak of his Hep Stars' success. In the 1990s, Peter formed Ane More Time, a group that enjoyed European success with the ABBA-like "Highland" and, afterwards, as Sweden's entry to the Eurovision Song Competition 1996.
Andersson was in a relationship with Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA for almost 11 years, from 1969 till 1980. They married on 6 October 1978, only separated on 26 Nov 1980 and divorced in 1981.
He married Swedish Goggle box presenter Mona Nörklit in 1981 and had a son, Ludvig (born Jan 1982), who has since followed in his father's footsteps in forming his own band.
Andersson was an alcoholic through much of his adult life. He has remained a teetotaler since 2001.[11] Andersson did non disclose the extent of his substance abuse problems until a 2011 interview, at which point he had maintained nigh a decade of sobriety.[xi]
Discography [edit]
Besides appears on [edit]
- Beginner's Guide to Scandinavia (3CD, Nascente 2011)
See too [edit]
- List of Swedes in music
References [edit]
- ^ Tobler, John (2012). Abba - Uncensored on the Record. Henley in Arden, Warwickshire, United kingdom: Coda Books Express. ISBN9781908538239 . Retrieved x August 2021.
- ^ "Suzy-Hang-Around".
- ^ Rekord på Svensktoppen Archived 23 April 2009 at the Wayback Automobile, Sveriges Radio. Retrieved five April 2009.
- ^ "ABBA'southward Benny, Björn and Avicii to write 'Eurovision anthem'". EBU . Retrieved fifteen April 2013.
- ^ "Filmare spanar in personen Palme". DN.SE. 7 September 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Nomineringarna till Guldbaggen" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan.se. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
- ^ "The Authorities's Music Export Prize for 2008 goes to". Sweden.gov.se. 7 January 2009. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Benny Andersson, Honorary Physician of Philosophy 2012 – LTU – Luleå University of Technology". Ltu.se. 31 August 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ^ "Bästa Musik 2012 Vinnare". guldbaggen.se. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ Gottschalk präsentiert neuen Musikpreis Opus Klassik. Die Presse, 2018-ten-14 (German)
- ^ a b Orange, Richard (16 September 2011). "Abba's Benny Andersson reveals extent of alcohol addiction". Archived from the original on 11 Jan 2022 – via world wide web.telegraph.co.uk.
External links [edit]
- Deutsche Grammophon page on Benny Andersson
- BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists folio
- icethesite (Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus news site)
- The Hep Stars International Official website (Benny before ABBA)
- Chronology: Benny Andersson
- Official ABBA site
- Works by or nigh Benny Andersson in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Andersson
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