Benny Andersson Biography

Benny Andersson (Göran Bror Benny Andersson) is a Swedish musician and songwriter born on 16 December 1946 in Vällingby, Sweden. He is member of the Swedish music group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!.

For the 2008 film version of Mamma Mia!, he worked also as an executive producer. Since 2001, he is active with his own band Benny Anderssons orkester.

Benny Andersson Age

Benny was born on 16th December 1946 in Vällingby, Sweden (71 years as of 2017)

Benny Andersson Net worth

He has an estimated net worth of $230 Million

Benny Andersson Orkester

Benny Anderssons orkester is a Swedish band, with Benny Andersson as musical leader and composer. The band was formed in the mid-2001 by 16 people, some from Orsa Spelmän, and Helen Sjöholm and since 2004 Tommy Körberg as singers.

Benny Andersson ABBA

ABBA are a Swedish pop group, formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. Andersson met Björn Ulvaeus in June 1966, and they both started writing songs together, their first being “Isn’t It Easy To Say”, eventually 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 place.

They began supporting each other during recording sessions, the sound of the girls’ voices convinced the songwriters to model their ‘group’ on various MOR acts such as Blue Mink, Middle of the Road and Sweet. Thus, ABBA came to life.

Benny Andersson Wife

Andersson was engaged to Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA for about nine years and they married on 6 October 1978, the couple separated on 26 November 1980 and divorced in 1981.

In the same year he married Swedish TV presenter Mona Nörklit and had a son, Ludvig (born January 1982), who has since followed in his father’s footsteps in forming his own band.

Mona Nörklit and Benny Andersson

Benny Andersson Children | Son

He has two children with Christina Grönvall; a son Peter Grönvall born in 1963 and  a daughter, Heléne born in 1965. He also has a son Ludvig born January 1982 with Mona Nörklit.

Benny Andersson Piano

Benny Andersson Album

1960s

1. 1965 We And Our Cadillac
2. 1965 Hep Stars On Stage
3. 1966 The Hep Stars
4. 1967 Jul med Hep Stars
5. 1967 It’s Been A Long Long Time
6. 1968 Songs We Sang 68

1970s

1. 1970 Lycka
2. 1973 Ring Ring
3. 1974 Waterloo
4. 1975 ABBA
5. 1976 Arrival
6. 1977 The Album
7. 1979 Voulez-Vous

1980s

1. 1980 Gracias por la música
2. 1980 Super Trouper
3. 1981 The Visitors
4. 1984 Chess
5. 1985 Gemini
6. 1986 ABBA Live
7. 1987 Geminism
8. 1987 Klinga mina klockor
9. 1988 Chess
10. 1988 Original Broadway Cast Recording 1988
11. 1988 Orsa Spelmän
12. 1989 November 1989

1990s

1. 1990 Fiolen Min
2. 1993 Shapes
3. 1994 Chess In Concert
4. 1996 Kristina från Duvemåla
5. 1998 Ödra
6. 1999 Mamma Mia!
7. 1999 Original Cast Recording

2000s

1. 2001 Benny Anderssons Orkester
2. 2002 Chess på svenska
3. 2004 BAO!
4. 2005 Mamma Mia!
5. 2006 BAO på turné
6. 2007 BAO 3
7. 2008 Mamma Mia!
8. 2009 Story Of A Heart

2010s

1. 2010 Kristina At Carnegie Hall
2. 2011 O klang och jubeltid
3. 2012 Tomten har åkt hem
4. 2013 Hjälp sökes
5. 2015 Kärlekens tid
6. 2016 Mitt hjärta klappar för dig
7. 2017 Piano

Chess Benny Andersson

Anthem Benny Andersson

Benny Andersson Songs

• Andante, Andante
• Angeleyes
• Another Town, Another Train
• Arrival (composition)
• As Good as New
• Bang-A-Boomerang
• Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!
• Bring Me Edelweiss
• Chiquitita
• Dancing Queen
• The Day Before You Came
• Det är vi ändå
• Disillusion (ABBA song)
• Does Your Mother Know
• Dream World (ABBA song)
• Dum Dum Diddle
• Eagle (song)
• En karusell
• Fait accompli (BAO song)
• Fernando (song)
• Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
• Happy Hawaii
• Happy New Year (song)
• Hasta Mañana
• He Is Your Brother
• Head over Heels (ABBA song)
• Honey, Honey
• Hung Up
• I Am Just a Girl (ABBA song)
• I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
• I Have a Dream (song)
• I Know Him So Well
• I Saw It in the Mirror
• I Wonder (Departure)
• I’m a Marionette
• I’ve Been Waiting for You (ABBA song)
• If It Wasn’t for the Nights
• Intermezzo No. 1
• Just Like That (Gemini song)
• The King Has Lost His Crown
• King Kong Song
• Klinga mina klockor (song)
• Knowing Me, Knowing You
• Lay All Your Love on Me
• Like an Angel Passing Through My Room
• Ljuva sextital
• Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)
• Lovers (Live a Little Longer)
• Mamma Mia (song)
• Mio My Mio (song)
• Money, Money, Money
• My Love, My Life
• My Mama Said
• The Name of the Game (ABBA song)
• Nina, Pretty Ballerina
• On and On and On
• One Night in Bangkok
• One of Us (ABBA song)
• Our Last Summer
• People Need Love
• Put On Your White Sombrero
• Ring Ring (song)
• Rock Me (ABBA song)
• Rock’n Roll Band
• Säg det med en sång
• (I Am) The Seeker
• She’s My Kind of Girl
• Slipping Through My Fingers
• So Long (ABBA song)
• SOS (ABBA song)
• Story of a Heart (song)
• Summer Night City
• Super Trouper (song)
• Take a Chance on Me
• Thank ABBA for the Music
• Thank You for the Music
• That’s Me
• Two for the Price of One (ABBA song)
• Under Attack
• The Visitors (song)
• Voulez-Vous (song)
• Waterloo (ABBA song)
• The Way Old Friends Do
• We Write the Story
• What About Livingstone?
• When All Is Said and Done
• When I Kissed the Teacher
• Why Did It Have to Be Me
• The Winner Takes It All
• You Are My Man
• You Have to Be There
• You Owe Me One

Benny Andersson News

Abba legend Benny Andersson and the super-trouping all-star cast tell Event why they HAD to take a chance on Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Updated: 14 July 2018

Would you like to know why Benny Andersson took ten years to say ‘I Do, I Do’ to a Mamma Mia! sequel? How he rates the vocals of new girl Lily James? And how he got Abba back in the studio after 35 years to record new songs? Then read on, as here we go again…

It was one of the most successful movie musicals of all time, and the best-selling DVD ever in the UK, yet one of the musical masterminds behind the Mamma Mia! phenomenon was far from excited at the prospect of a sequel.

‘We weren’t that keen on it,’ says Benny Andersson who, along with musical partner Björn Ulvaeus, makes up the untouchable Scandinavian songwriting team at the heart of Abba. ‘Not me, and not Björn. Why? Because the first one was so good.’

Andersson co-composed and worked as executive producer on the 2008 musical smash, which grossed more than £460 million worldwide. He and Ulvaeus even supplied cameos alongside Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Amanda Seyfried, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth in the feelgood, singalong, dance-along romcom, built around 24 Abba classics.

Made on a budget of £52 million, the film’s box-office triumph mirrored the success of the original stage musical. Since its 1999 premiere in London’s West End, the theatrical show has been seen by 60 million people internationally and grossed £1.5 billion. At any one time, seven productions are running worldwide. Having made serious money, money, money, a second film was almost inevitable. But it says something about the steely nerve of the Abba songwriters that it’s taken a decade for a sequel to hit the screens – which it does, this month, with the release of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

But, here Andersson is, relaxing in his Stockholm HQ, reasonably conceding that if a sequel hadn’t happened, he wouldn’t have cared. Andersson is more interested in music than money, and he is arguably responsible for pop’s greatest back catalogue, with songs such as Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Take A Chance On Me, The Winner Takes It All, Knowing Me, Knowing You, The Name Of The Game, and many more.

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk