ABBA star Agnetha Fältskog has inked a serious file deal and is poised to launch her first solo album in a decade.
The 73-year-old Swede rose to worldwide stardom within the Seventies as a member of ABBA, who received the ‘Eurovision Track Contest’ with ‘Waterloo’ in 1974.
Nonetheless, she first achieved success in her native Sweden along with her 1968 self-titled debut album, and she or he went on to launch a number of Swedish and English language data.
Her final solo album was 2013’s ‘A’, which gave her a prime 10 hit within the UK, peaking at quantity 6, and she or he has one other one on the best way after signing to BMG.
An insider informed The Solar newspaper’s Weird column of her comeback: “Agnetha cherished being again within the studio with Abba and it impressed her to relaunch her solo profession.
“She has been in common contact for months with the workforce at BMG in London they usually have helped develop her new sound.
“After a very long time engaged on new music, there’s lastly a physique of labor which she loves, and which is prepared for launch.”
Very similar to ABBA, it is unlikely that Agnetha will carry out her new songs dwell.
Talking in 2013 about the opportunity of her getting again up on the stage, she mentioned: “No, I can’t. That’s my weakest [thing], the dwell factor. And likewise the very fact I’m older now, so I can’t try this. I don’t need to disappoint individuals.”
Agnetha and her bandmates – Björn Ulvaeus, 78, Benny Andersson, 76, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, 77 – have not carried out collectively since 1982.
Nonetheless, they returned with the album ‘Voyage’ in 2021 and avatar present ABBA Voyage in 2022, the latter of which sees digital variations of the band members depicting the group as they appeared in 1977.