Benny Anderson

About Benny Andersson Benny Anderson was born in 1946 In Stockholm, Sweden. His grandfather and his father were musicians he was introduced to the accordion when he was just a little boy. When Benny left high school he was invited to join a popular band called “The Hep Stars”. He joined the band and played successfully for a few years until the band unfortunately broke apart in the late 1960s. While Benny was touring with the “Hep stars” he met a songwriter whose name was Björn Ulvaeus. After the break up of the “Hep Stars” Andersson and Ulvaeus released their own LP. After this Andersson became famous with the moniker band ABBA (which stood for the letters of everyone's first names in the band) he co-produced the bands entire output as well as touring the world. After ABBA split apart Andersson and also Ulvaeus wrote the music for Rice’s “Chess,” through this Andersson became very successful. Recently Andersson has been producing for very successful Swedish performers, and also his love for birds.

About there play Benny did not write any specific plays but did music with his band for the play “Mamma Mia” which was a huge musical based on the songs by ABBA.

Other plays Benny didn’t do any more big plays but he did write songs for Rice’s “Chess”. Some songs Benny Andersson wrote include “waterloo”, “Mio my Mio”, “Honey Honey”, “Fernando” and much more!!

About the author Hi I’m Heidi Dunleavy and I go to OLPH school, I am in the eighth grade. I enjoy volleyball, softball and cheerleading. I also enjoy doing plays which I do every year at my old school Saint Georges. I like to go outside a lot in the summer and go to the pool and hang out with my friends. I also love traveling on vacation every summer! I have six people in my family my Dad, Mom, Julie, Jimbo, Luke, and Me, and I also have a little rabbit named Nester. That’s a little bit about Me!!

Interview on The Composers

Heidi and Krista’s song. All My Chicks

Resources

That’s My Power Point! I hope you enjoyed my power point on Benny Andersson. I think that he is a very interesting composer to have gotten. I really enjoyed this project.