FRIDA @ "SKAVLAN", SVT/NRK (26-SEPT): "LONELINESS IS NATURAL FOR ME"

Se anuncia para lesta noche del viernes una entrevista de Frida en el talkshow de la TV sueca (SVT1) "Skavlan". Hablará, entre otras cosas, del nuevo álbum en vivo de Abba. Ya han pasado los otros miembros de Abba (hemos recogido aquí el de Agnetha el año pasado) que han sido entrevistados por Fredrick Skavlan. Estarán también en el programa el Arzobispo Desmond Tutu, Elvis Costello y la banda de heavy metal sueco In Flames. Según informa la página Homage To Anni-Frid en Facebook, la entrevista se grabó el pasado miércoles (fotos superiores). En ella dice que está trabajando en un libro sobre su vida y anunció el proyecto de una nueva canción titulado "1865", que es un homenaje al magnífico Matterhorn y que saldrá en diciembre de este año. Actualizaremos e intentaremos ofreceros la entrevista también. Incluimos más abajo en inglés traducción en inglés tomada de Abba Official.com News blog de la transcripción de vg.no. y del periódico sueco Aftonbladet.

An interview with Frida on tonight's Swedish TV (SVT1) talkshow "Skavlan" has been announced. She'll be talking about Abba's new live album, among other things. The other Abba members have already been interviewed by Fredrick Skavlan (like Agnetha last year, which we showed here too). Also on the programme will be Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Elvis Costello and Swedish heavy metal band In Flames. According to the Facebook page Homage to Anni-Frid, the interview was recorded last Wednesday afternoon (photos above). In it she says she's working on a book of her life and she announced the project of a new song called "1865", which is a tribute to the wonderful Matterhorn and will be out this December. We'll update and try to show you this one also. Including below the English translation taken from Abba Official.com News blog from vg.no transcription and from Swedish paper Aftonbladet.

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OPEN AND HONEST: Anni-Frid Lyngstad talks about the tough times with presenter Fredrik Skavlan.
Photo: JONAS ERIKSSON
Speaking out in rare interview:
ABBA-Frida: – Loneliness is natural for me
STOCKHOLM (AP) Anni-Frid Lyngstad lost her only daughter and her husband of eighteen years. At age 68, she has become accustomed to solitude.
In partnership with life

Although a member of ABBA, she is one of the world’s most successful stars. But she has also had her share of tragedy.

In January 1998, her daughter Ann Lise-Lotte died in a car accident, only 30 years old.

In October 1999, her husband, the Swiss Prince Ruzzo Reuss, died of lymphoma. He was 49.

- What I experienced might make that experience a great loneliness which gradually become natural to me, says the usually media-shy Anni-Frid in an interview broadcast on NRK program “Skavlan» Friday.

Her mother was Norwegian, German father. Her mother died only 21 years old, and Anni-Frid was strongly attached to her grandmother Arntine growing up just outside Narvik.

- Sometimes I think that I'm similar to my grandmother, who I grew up with, says Anni-Frid, who applied for Swedish citizenship when she was 16.
She says that she is doing an autobiography, coming “when she is ready.”

Present in the studio is also Desmond Tutu, to talk about a book about forgiveness. To him she said:

- I’ve been in situations where I’ve been in trouble, but where I’ve thought that when there is so much forgiveness in the world, I have to do it too.

Anni-Frid Reuss, as she is called today, is a billionaire and considerably richer than their higher-profile colleague Agnetha Fältskog.

She lives in a Swiss mountain village and, according to Swedish Expressen has a fortune of 1.8 billion Swedish crowns. More than 30 years after ABBA split up.

Totally lazy – she is not. Soon she'll present a clothing line aimed for skiing.

- I thought a few years ago that I have to do something creative, and found that ski clothing is “Tråk matters.” So I contacted a ski-clothes manufacturing company and in December, the first collection will be available. 

The journalist responds by praising her business interest

- My relationship with money is that I am as careful as children. It’s about being scared of losing what I’ve got. As a child I collected on the dime. Today I live a simple but comfortable life.

Metal band “In Flames” are also guests at Skavlan, and admit that they have stolen from Abba.

- Did you, did you ask for permission, then? Hehe. My grandson has started with heavy metal, says Anni-Frid.

Grandson Jonathan (24), who now lives in the United States, is the son of Ann Lise-Lotte, and was just a little boy when his mother suddenly passed away.

Anni-Frid can also talk about ABBA; they release the double live album “Live At Wembley Arena,” with recordings from 1979, this coming Monday.

She has previously stated that it is unacceptable to resume her solo career.

- But one should never say never. I like to sing, she says now, and reveals that she actually gives out a song in December – a tribute to the Matterhorn, as it is almost 150 years since it was climbed for the first time. The title is “1865”.

In Switzerland, she is on the list of the 300 wealthiest residents, who each year are published in the journal Bilanz. She is in good company on the list; celebrities such as Tina Turner, Phil Collins, Michael Schumacher and IKEA Ingvar Kamprad-billionaire has been on the same list.

In Zermatt, where she has lived since her husband died, you can often find her shopping in the local grocery store. In addition to the residence in Switzerland, she houses in Sweden and Mallorca.

Anni-Frid lives today with the British nobleman Henry Smith (58) who is the heir to the British store chain WH Smith. They met in 2008 and made the relationship public during the premiere of “Mamma Mia” in London.

ABBA-Frida has put words to the tragedies in her life.

SVT:s talkshow "Skavlan" on Friday Frida, 68 makes a rare performance. When the show was taped the ABBA-icon that she us working on a book about her life. A life filled wit pop star dreams coming true but also of deep sorrow. In 1998 her 30 year old daughter Ann Lise-Lotte Casper in a car accident in the USA. The following year Anni-Frid's husband, price Ruzzo Reuss von Plauen from cancer. He was only 49 years old.

– I have always written a lot. Nothing that I have published. But in my pivate life it has helped me go throughs things,

The book will not be just a regular memoir and the date for publishing is't decided yet.

- I would more call it a "story" not just a "memoir",

- But of course I am involved but in a bif of a different way she tells Fredrik Skavlan.

Anni-Frid Synny Lyngstad was born in Norwy, and were almost only two years old when her mother died. She grew up with her grandmother in Sweden. 1986 she moved to Switzerland for the love of her prince.

"Loneliness became my companion"

During the recording of the "Skavlan" show the singer also talk about the great loneliness she has experienced during her life.

- A rather big loneliness which in the beginning bothered me, but has grown to something she appreciates and has become a friend during the years. I actually enjoy it now that we have bec ome "friends". It doesn't bother me, I ejnjoy it as well.

Apart from her successfull music career Anni-Frid has Anni-Frid has been very involved in environmental issues. That part of my life will also be written about in the book.
- I want to write a story with ecological parts since I hadworked with it earlier a lot and I'm still very close to nature.

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