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Benny Andersson
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Swedish musician and composer
Benny Andersson is a Swedish musician and composer known for his work in popular music. He is best known as a member of the iconic pop group ABBA, which became one of the most successful and influential bands in music history.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 9
Top works
- Chess
- Mamma Mia
- Selections from Chess
- Benny Andersson Piano
- [Mamma Mia kagyebu 2017
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Sweden
- Active from
- 1946-12-16
Discography
- Lycka1970
- Klinga mina klockor1987
- November 19891989
- Fågelsång i Sverige1990
- Chess In Concert1994
- Från Waterloo till Duvemåla1998
- Piano2017
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 113,718
- Total plays
- 1,515,011
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Göran Bror Benny Andersson (born in Stockholm, Sweden on 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA (1972-1982), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!. Currently active with his own band Benny Anderssons Orkester (BAO!), and executive-producing the film version of the musical Mamma Mia!. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Benny+Andersson">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,767x
- Sexual Selection
· 1994 · cited 7,285x
- The ERA‐40 re‐analysis
· 2005 · cited 6,025x
- The minimal preprocessing pipelines for the Human Connectome Project
· 2013 · cited 5,479x
- A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex
· 2016 · cited 5,104x
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Quotes
- “I don't get it... did we look like transvestites or something?”
- “I'd hate the sound of thirty thousand people booing.”
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- 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
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- name in native language
- Benny Andersson
- birth name
- Göran Bror Benny Andersson
- P12674
- Clandestine Childhood
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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.
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Gallery (8)
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