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Benny Andersson

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Also known as Göran Bror Benny Andersson, Benny, Benny Sigvard Andersson

Swedish musician and composer

OverviewAI-generated

Benny Andersson is a Swedish male musician and composer whose career began in 1964. He is associated with genres including ballad, folk, musical, pop, and rock. His notable works include *Chess*, *Mamma Mia*, *Selections from Chess*, *Benny Andersson Piano*, and *Mamma mia! How can I resist you?*.

Andersson has been referenced by 1,059 other encyclopedia articles. His music is tagged with descriptors such as swedish, folk, piano, pop, and svenskt. He has recorded five works according to Crossref data, while Open Library lists nine works under his name.

Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
9

Top works

  • Chess
  • Mamma Mia
  • Selections from Chess
  • Benny Andersson Piano
  • [Mamma Mia kagyebu 2017

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Sweden
Active from
1946-12-16
balladfolkmusicalpoprock

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
113,718
Total plays
1,515,011

Tags

swedishfolkpianopopsvenskt

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>

via Last.fm · Benny Andersson

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    · 2020 · cited 10,241x

  2. Sexual Selection

    · 1994 · cited 7,322x

  3. The ERA‐40 re‐analysis

    · 2005 · cited 6,035x

  4. The minimal preprocessing pipelines for the Human Connectome Project

    · 2013 · cited 5,611x

  5. A multi-modal parcellation of human cerebral cortex

    · 2016 · cited 5,268x

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Music

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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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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Benny Andersson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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