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Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Anni-Frid-Synni Lyngstad (born November 15, 1945) is best known as one of the four singers in the rock group ABBA.
Anni-Frid was born illegitimately in Ballangen, near Narvik, Norway during the Nazi occupation as a result of a liaison between Synni - her mother - and a married German sergeant, Alfred Haase. She was unknowingly part of the Nazi Lebensborn plan to expand the "Aryan" race, by stealing Caucasian children from neighboring countries, or impregnating women under occupation. Anni-Frid believed that her father had died when his ship to Germany was sunk during the war. After a German magazine published the story of her origins in 1977, Anni-Frid discovered that her father had not died, and was able to meet him.
At the end of World War II Anni-Frid, her mother and grandmother fled to Sweden for fear of reprisals from the Norwegian population - whose government put many German-fathered children into mental institutions, or sent them overseas. Synni died before Anni-Frid was two, so she was brought up by her grandmother in Eskilstuna, Sweden.
Anni-Frid got her first job as a jazz singer at the age of 13, then formed her own band, the Anni-Frid Four, marrying the bass player Ragnar Fredriksson at age 18, with whom she had two children before divorcing.
In 1967 Anni-Frid won a TV talent contest, and made an album for EMI. She made a second in 1971, produced by Benny Andersson, laying the foundations for ABBA. She married Benny on October 6, 1978 - divorcing in 1981.
In 1992 Anni-Frid married Heinrich Ruzzo Reuss (1950-1999), of the Princely Reuss family.
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