Marie Fredriksson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Marie Fredriksson

Swedish singer

Date of Birth: 30-May-1958

Place of Birth: Össjö, Skåne County, Sweden

Profession: singer, pianist, singer-songwriter, guitarist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Marie Fredriksson

  • Gun-Marie Fredriksson (Swedish: [ma'ri? ?fre?dr?k?s?n] (listen); 30 May 1958 – 9 December 2019) was a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, pianist and painter.
  • she is best known as the lead vocalist and forming the pop rock, soft rock, and duo Roxette in 1986 alongside Per Gessle.
  • The duo achieved international success in the late-1980s and early-1990s with their albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and had six top two hits on the Billboard Hot 100: "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "Dangerous", "It Must Have Been Love", "Joyride" and "Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)". Fredriksson had a successful career in her native country prior to forming Roxette.
  • She was a member of punk group Strul, a band which created their own music festival in 1979.
  • Strul's dissolution led to the creation of her next project, the short-lived MaMas Barn, after which she began releasing solo work.
  • Her first album, Het vind, was issued in 1984, followed by Den sjunde vågen in 1986 and ...
  • Efter stormen in 1987.
  • Roxette's international breakthrough coincided with a period of inactivity for Fredriksson as a solo artist, punctuated only by the release of the non-album single "Sparvöga" in 1989.
  • Subsequent solo albums included Den ständiga resan (1992) and I en tid som vår (1996). In 2002, after fainting at home, Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
  • During her rehabilitation, she continued to record music as a solo artist, resulting in The Change in 2004 and Min bäste vän in 2006, as well as the non-album single "Där du andas" in 2008—her first and only solo number one single in Sweden.
  • She and Gessle later reunited to record more albums as Roxette, who embarked on a worldwide concert tour.
  • She also continued to record as a solo artist in her native Sweden, releasing Nu! in 2013.

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