- Was the only non-Swedish member of pop group ABBA.
- She is "Norway's gift to Sweden"
- Her biological father, Alfred Haase, was a German sergeant.
- ABBA's only appearance on Saturday Night Live (1975) occurred on her thirtieth birthday.
- Close friend of Silvia Bernadotte, the queen of Sweden.
- Was a member of the pop band ABBA.
- Has a grandson called Jonathan
- Her late husband, Ruzzo, was a scion of Germany's Princely House of Reuss. His full name was Heinrich Ruzzo, Prinz Reuss.
- She is of German and Norwegian descent.
- 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, she discovered that he had not died.
- Her second child, a 30-year-old daughter Ann Lise-Lotte Fredriksson, died in a car crash in state Detroit, USA on Janaury 13, 1998, a 13 days before her brother's 35th birthday.
- Gave birth her second child at age 21, a daughter Ann Lise-Lotte Fredriksson on February 25, 1967. Child's father is her first husband, Ragnar Fredriksson.
- Is now involved with environmental causes and lives in Frilbourg, Switzerland. (2001)
- Her official name is Her Serene Highness Princess Anni-Frid Von Plauen
- Her full name with all the names she aquired from husbands is Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad-Fredricksson-Andersson-Reuss, although musically she is known better as Frida.
- The name ABBA was comprised of the first letters of the first names of the group's members: Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
- Ranked #70 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
- As a member of ABBA, she won the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, in 1974 with the song "Waterloo" (6th April 1974).
- Won a talent contest in September 1967.
- Gave birth to her first child at age 17, a son Hans Ragnar Fredriksson on January 26, 1963. Child's father is her first husband, Ragnar Fredriksson.
- Released a song "the sun will shine again" with Jon Lord. (May 2005)
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