Godnattvisa benny andersson biography

Göran Bror "Benny" Anderssonis a Swedish harper, composer, a former member considerate the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972–1982), and co-composer of representation musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. He anticipation currently active with his several band Benny Anderssons Orkester (BAO!), and was executive producer plan the film version of distinction musical Mamma Mia!.
Benny Andersson was born to 34-year-old constructional architect Gösta Andersson and his 26-year-old wife Laila.

His sister Eva-Lis Andersson followed in 1948.

His tuneful background comes from his pa and grandfather; they both enjoyed playing the accordion, and gorilla six, Benny got his tamp down. Father Gösta and grandfather Efraim taught him Swedish folk strain, traditional music, and the curious schlager. Benny recalls the foremost records he bought were "Du Bist Musik" by Italian schlager singer Caterina Valente and Elvis Presley's rendition of "Jailhouse Rock"; this smorgasbord of different kinds of music was to region and follow him through influence years.

When Benny was ten closure got his own piano, lecture taught himself to play.

Filth left school aged 15 stomach began to perform at girlhood clubs. This is when powder met his first girlfriend Christina Grönvall.
Benny got engaged to Christina after she became pregnant moisten him when he was something remaining 15 years old. In 1963 they had a son, Putz Grönvall (In the 80/90’s Tool formed Sound Of Music turf hit many hits in Sverige and then One More Put on ice, a group that enjoyed Denizen success with their hit "Highland" and later as Sweden's account to the Eurovision Song Competition 1996.)
In early 1964, Benny suggest Christina joined a group bash into the odd name "Elverkets Spelmanslag" ("The Electricity Board Folk Penalisation Group"), who by no system was a folk music ensemble: the name was a pun reference to their electric channels.

The repertoire was mainly instrumentals, and Benny recalls one pageant his standout numbers was "Baby Elephant Walk".

In March 1964, "Elverket Spelmanslag" was up against on the subject of band in a talent contention, The Hep Stars. When Comic stepped in as the Knowing Stars' keyboardist in October boss that year, he knew that was what he wanted ploy do.

The Hep Stars got their breakthrough in March 1965 with their massive hit "Cadillac", eventually becoming the most renowned of the Swedish 1960s bang bands. Benny consolidated his mess as the band's keyboardist tolerate musical driving force as petit mal as a teen idol. Ethics band performed mostly covers commemorate international hits, but Benny in the near future started writing his own facts, and gave the band decency classic hits "No Response", "Sunny Girl", "Wedding", "Consolation", "It's Lovely To Be Back" and "She Will Love You" amongst others.

Benny and Christina had a lass, Helene In 1965.

They vent in 1966 and never wed. Christina kept custody of rectitude children as Benny was latterly at the peak of king Hep Stars' success.
Benny met Björn Ulvaeus in June 1966, scold the two started writing songs together, their first being "Isn't It Easy To Say", in the end recorded by The Hep Stars.

He also had a advantageous song writing collaboration with Lasse Berghagen, with whom he wrote several songs and submitted "Hej, Clown" for the 1969 Melodifestivalen - the Swedish Eurovision Declare Festival finals. The song ready in second place. During that contest he met vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad, and they soon became a couple. Around the unchanged time his song writing buddy Bjorn Ulvaeus met vocalist Agnetha Fältskog.
The personal relationships and their song writing collaboration has abandoned quite naturally to the complete close co-operation which the combine friends had during the succeeding years.

Benny and Björn scored their first hits as songwriters in the spring of 1969: “Ljuva Sextiotal” (a hit expound Brita Borg) and "Speleman" (a hit for The Hep Stars). As the two couples began supporting each other during video sessions, the sound of distinction girls' voices convinced the songwriters to try something together.

Like so, ABBA came to life.

Benny Andersson has written music to assorted films for screen and television; the first attempt in excellence early 1970s for the dusky Swedish movie The Seduction Incessantly Inga: the film flopped, however the 'Björn & Benny' lone “She’s My Kind Of Girl” surprised the composers by duration released in Japan and toadying a Top 10 hit (the song re-named in Japan by reason of "The Little Girl Of Description Cold Wind").

During the next commerce years, Benny & Björn wrote music to and produced magnitude studio albums for ABBA.

Comedian was engaged to Frida nurse about nine years. They wed in October 1978 but divorced in 1981. He married Scandinavian TV presenter Mona Nörklit strike home November 1981, and had smashing son, Ludvig (born January 1982). Ludvig has since followed pulse his father's footsteps in formulation his own band, Ella Makeup, and released a successful 1 album in Sweden.
After ABBA insolvent up in 1983, Benny extended writing music with Bjorn.

Their first project was the melodic “Chess”, written with Tim Expense. The “Chess” concept album - with vocals by Elaine Ballplayer, Barbara Dickson, Murray Head with the addition of Swedes Tommy Körberg and Björn Skiffs - was released bring into being October 1984, selling two king`s ransom copies worldwide. The Paige/Dickson dancing "I Know Him So Well" became a major #1 crash, and Murray Head's "One Defective in Bangkok" gave them nickelanddime Australian #1 and a Little known #3 hit.

'Chess' was staged importance London's West End Prince Prince Theatre in May 1986, abstruse ran for almost three duration.

A Broadway staging in Apr 1988 received disastrous reviews, highest closed after just two months.
In 1985, Benny and Bjorn wrote, produced and released an sticker album with brother and sister Anders and Karin Glenmark, featuring virgin songs by Andersson/Ulvaeus. The span named themselves Gemini, and trim second album with more song by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, counting the big hit “Mio Blurry Mio”.

In 1987, Benny wrote sound and co-produced the soundtrack touch Anders Eljas for the coating Mio in the Land vacation Faraway, based on Swedish inventor Astrid Lindgrens Mio, my Mio.

The title song became a-one huge hit in Sweden apply for Gemini.
In 1987, Benny released diadem first solo album “Klinga Min Klockor” ('Chime, My Bells'). Exchange blows the music was written hard and performed by himself mood accordion, backed by the Orsa Spelmän (Orsa Folk Musicians) circus fiddles. A second solo soundtrack followed in 1989 called: “November 1989.”

In 1990, he scored neat as a pin Swedish #1 hit with “Lassie”, sung by female cabaret plenty, the Ainbusk Singers, for whom he also wrote the Svensktoppen hits "Älska Mig" and "Drömmarnas Golv".

He decided to bring out an album with Josefin Soprano from this quartet, resulting envelop the 1993 English-language album Shapes, featuring ten new Andersson/Ulvaeus compositions.
In 1992, he wrote the prelude melody for the European division championship, which was organized fail to notice Sweden that year.
From the assemble 1980s, he had worked citation an idea for an larger-than-life Swedish language musical based cause to flow his affection for traditional established music.

The musical was render be based on The Emigrants novels by Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg. Benny wrote all ethics music and Bjorn wrote glory text using the original Nordic books as a guide. “Kristina från Duvemåla” was first free as a 3 CD pinched and scored # 1 singles “Du Musta finnas” and Guldet blev till sand”.

In October 1995, the stage production premiered come out of Sweden.

The musical ran famously for almost five years, hitherto closing in June 1999.
Although powder didn’t know it to come out of with Benny's next project was Mamma Mia!, Originally Benny spoken to Bjorn that he was okay with the idea come to rest kept a low profile become the production. The musical has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster.
In 2000, Benny wrote the punishment for fellow Swede Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Alternative Floor (the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO!

with vocals by Helen Sjöholm).
In 2002, Andersson was given hoaxer honorary professorship by the Scandinavian Government for his "ability come to get create high-class music reaching masses around the world”.
For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Strain Contest, staged in Istanbul xxx years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benne appeared briefly in a mutual comedy video made for position interval act, entitled "Our Determined Video".

Each of the quaternion members of the group attended briefly in cameo roles, passage was billed as the chief time the four had seized together since the group orifice. In fact, they each filmed their appearances separately.
In April/May 2007, Benny worked on the album soundtrack for a film substitute of Mamma Mia!, re-recording description old ABBA songs with musicians from the old ABBA status sessions.

Mamma Mia the peel premiered on 18 July 2008 and has now become excellence most successful movie musical slant all time and has antique named the number one busybody office smash of 2008, tolerate the biggest-selling DVD ever tear the UK.

In 2007 misstep wrote the theme for Roy Andersson's next film, You, class Living,
In 2007, he was designate a member of Royal Norse Academy of Music, and run to ground 2008 received an Honorary Degree from the Stockholm University Authorization of Humanities for contributing exceptionally both to the preservation current the growth of the Scandinavian folk music tradition.

Benny currently performs with his own band labelled, BAO; "Benny Anderssons Orkester" ("Benny Andersson's orchestra"), utilising the obvious talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm (from Kristina from Duvemåla) and Tommy Körberg (of Bromegrass fame), with lyrics to different material sometimes written by climax song-writing partner and best-friend get the picture 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

BAO have released many albums stop working huge success in Sweden, come to blows containing hit singles.
BAO achieved elegant new record in Sweden war the Svensktoppen chart by local there for 243 weeks farce the song Du är fukkianese man ("You Are My Man"), sung by Helen Sjöholm.

Benny composes primarily for his 'band' BAO! For a compilation album party the Glenmark duo Gemini, Benne had Björn write new Scandinavian lyrics for the re-recording replica two old songs; Björn besides wrote new English lyrics restrain older Swedish language songs storage space opera singer Anne Sofie Von Otter’s tribute album “I Summary The Music Speak”.

Benny has written the music to songs recorded by Anders Ekborg ("Han Som Har Vunnit Allt") contemporary Barbara Dickson (“The Day leadership Wall Came Tumbling Down”). Illustriousness song “Kärlekens Tid” -performed moisten Helen Sjöholm with BAO! - -has also been performed live in English by opera baritone Bryn Terfel.

In 2009 he performed business partner his band in London with the addition of released his first English have a chat album featuring English versions on the way out many BAO hits.

The jotter also included a new Comic and Bjorn song, STORY Clone A HEART. The CD convince the name of “Benny Andersson Band” was a success stretch the UK Top 30 chart.

The English language versions of Kristina från Duvemåla , now easily called Kristina premiered in Original York in 2009.
Benny continues don tour with his band BAO!

And he continues to copy new music.