Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad was born in Narvik, Norway on November 15th 1945. She was the daughter of a German Soldier, which due to the occupation of Norway during World War II bought a lot of hate towards Frida's mother, Synni Lyngstad, people in her village would spit at her or shout abuse because of going out with a German soldier and having his child. This lead to Synni's very premature death at the age of 21.

Frida's grandmother then took her to Sweden in 1947, and it was her who encouraged Frida to sing. She first sang in public, aged ten at a Red Cross Soiree and by the age of 13 was singing professionally with a dance band at a restuarant in Eskilstuna , though she had to lie about her age - she said that she was 16!

She then started singing with a big band lead by Bengt Sardlind, and Frida fell in love with another member, Ragnar Frederiksson, who with Frida went on to form the Anni-Frid 4. They also married and had two children, Hans and Liselotte. However she still wasn't satisfied and entered many local talent competitions and won. One lead her to compete on a talent contest on SVT's Hyland's Corner. She won, and signed a contract with EMI.

Despite this, she still didn't have much success, until she met Benny Andersson in 1969 who then became both her fiance and her producer! Her first hits came in 1971 and she then had solo sucesses even during Abba's first few years (as with Agnetha) up until 1975.

Frida - After ABBA

It was in 1982 when Frida decided to start solo recording and she chose Phil Collins as producer. By the end of 1982 Frida's first solo album called Something's Going On was released. It sold fairly well in the UK reaching the lower reaches of the Top 20 albums, though Frida was a little disappointed. The main single taken from the album I Know There's Something Going On did not do very well and only reached #44 in the UK.

Frida's second, and so far final, solo album called Shine was released in 1984. However it did not sell very well, as it was really too modern for its time. The sales of both the single and the album were dissapointing, even her loyal following n Europe seemed to stay well away. Frida said on the album: "I've released an album that didn't please the public. I can't afford to do this again, but I do think that I have been treated very badly by the record company in England who decided to release Heart Of The Country as a single. I think it was a poor choice. We did however think that Shine was a good first single but nobody bought it when it came out. Sunsequently, we didn't have a hit single to release the album on the back of and the whole album was a complete flop".

In the meantime, during 1983, Frida recorded the duet "Belle" with Daniel Balavoine for the French musical "Abbacadbra". She also recorded an English version "Time" with BA Robertson as well as guesting on an Adam Ant record as a favour to Phil Collins.

Djupa Andetag was Fridas first solo album in over 12 years and her first Swedish album for over 20 years.

It was a huge hit in Scandanavia, reaching number 1 and selling over 100 000 copies.

Frida asked Agnetha to sing with her on the duet "Alla mina bästa år" but Agnetha declined.

Frida recently recorded a new single with German singer Dan Daniel. It included an English cover of "I Have A Dream".

In 2004 Frida recorded a duet with ex- Deep Purple member Jon Lord. The song, "The Sun Will Shine Again" was written by Jon Lord for Frida.