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Benny Andersson

Also known as Göran Bror Benny Andersson, Benny, Benny Sigvard Andersson

Swedish musician and composer

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Benny Andersson is a Swedish male musician and composer whose career began in 1964. He is associated with genres including ballad, folk, musical, pop, and rock. His notable works include *Chess*, *Mamma Mia*, *Selections from Chess*, *Benny Andersson Piano*, and *Mamma mia! How can I resist you?*.

Andersson has been referenced by 1,059 other encyclopedia articles. His music is tagged with descriptors such as swedish, folk, piano, pop, and svenskt. He has recorded five works according to Crossref data, while Open Library lists nine works under his name.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Family name: Andersson
Gender: male
Citizenship: Sweden
Place of birth: Stockholm
Occupation: record producer
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: Swedish
Genre: rock music
Instrument: voice
Official website: www.monomusic.se
Image: Benny Andersson 2012-09-24 001.jpg

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Commons category: Benny Andersson
date of birth: 1946-12-16
partner in business or sport: Svenne Hedlund
start of work period: 1964-00-00
name in native language: Benny Andersson
birth name: Göran Bror Benny Andersson
copyright representative: STIM
member of: Royal Swedish Academy of Music
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview

Göran Bror Benny Andersson ( Swedish: [ˈbɛ̌nːʏ ˈânːdɛˌʂɔn] ; born 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer and producer best known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 film version of Mamma Mia! and its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, he also worked as an executive producer. Since 2001, he has been active with his own band Benny Anderssons orkester.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Benny Andersson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.