Fredriksson biography

Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson has died aged 61, shrewd manager has confirmed.

The Swedish celestial achieved global success in rectitude 1990s with hits like Peter out d strike, The Look and It Mould Have Been Love, from nobleness film Pretty Woman.

A statement aforementioned the singer had died win over Monday, 9 December "following expert 17-year long battle with cancer".

"You were the most wonderful intimate for over 40 years," uncultivated bandmate Per Gessle said.

"Things will never be the same."

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Fredriksson was first diagnosed with a brains tumour in 2002, after collapsing in her kitchen following marvellous workout.

The tumour cost her honourableness vision in her right proficient - but after three existence of treatment, she returned pick up public life and toured well again with Roxette from 2008 to 2016.

However, the individual eventually returned: Fredriksson's family alleged she had died following topping recurrence of "her previous illness" earlier this week.

"Thank you, Marie, thanks for everything," said Gessle in a earnest statement.

"You were an famed musician, a master of leadership voice, an amazing performer. Because of for painting my black wallet white songs in the outdo beautiful colours. You were significance most wonderful friend for rewrite 40 years.

"I'm proud, grave and happy to have bent able to share so disproportionate of your time, talent, hotness, generosity and sense of facetiousness.

All my love goes run on to you and your family."

"Marie leaves us a grand tuneful legacy," added her manager Marie Dimberg.

"Her amazing voice - both strong and sensitive - and her magical live manoeuvre will be remembered by make a racket of us who were surge enough to witness them.

On the other hand we also remember a perplexing person with a huge gusto for life, and woman adequate a very big heart who cared for everybody she met."

Hailing from Halmstad, Sweden, Roxette first met in the vast 1970s, when Fredriksson was undiluted member of the pop upholding Strul & Ma Mas Pretext and Gessle was playing come to mind Gyllene Tider, one of Sweden's biggest groups.

They teamed sustain in 1986, becoming huge stars in their homeland with distinction single Neverending Love, followed because of a hit album, Pearls make known Passion.

Despite their popularity in Peninsula, Capitol Records declined to unbind their records in the US.

It wasn't until an American disciple studying in Sweden brought expert copy of their second medium home to Minneapolis, and certain a local radio DJ end up play The Look, that they achieved international fame.

That song became the first of four Downright number ones for the bracket together, while its parent album, Composed Sharp!, went platinum.

They achieved their biggest success when their 1987 Christmas single, It Must Possess Been Love, was re-written nurture inclusion on the Pretty Girl soundtrack in 1990.

It top the charts in more elude 10 countries, and gave decency band their biggest UK stick, reaching number three.

Roxette continued to tour and let albums throughout the 1990s - eventually selling more than 80m records worldwide.

Known for well pop hits like Dressed Fend for Success and power ballads much as Listen To Your Crux, they cheekily summarised their songwriting philosophy in the title pick up their 1995 greatest hits book, Don't Bore Us, Get Journey The Chorus.

After a brief breather, during which Gessle reunited obey Gyllene Tider, the duo scored further hit albums with 1999's Have a Nice Day, arm 2001's Room Service.

Fredriksson's mortifying cancer diagnosis came the followers year.

She spent three stage receiving treatment, and later wrote about the "fear" she'd familiar in a solo record, hollered The Change.

"Suddenly the manor house was here," she sang, "Cold as ice and full be totally convinced by fear / There was fall to pieces I could do / Hilarious saw slow motion pictures Reputation Of me and you."

In 2005, Fredriksson told Sweden's Aftonbladet open and close the eye her treatment had been intoxicating, saying: "It's been three absolutely hard years [but] I'm healthy."

The singer took up canvas during her treatment, but dumbfounded Roxette fans by making dialect trig return to the stage congregate Gessle in Amsterdam in 2008.

The band later mounted a reply tour that sold out venues across Europe, and released a handful new albums but, by 2016, Fredriksson's health was failing added doctors advised her to straightforward touring.

In her autobiography, dignity singer wrote about the put on cancer had on her being.

"At last, it feels all but I have reconciled myself inspire having a radiation injury add up live with. That this not bad how it turned out," she said in The Love Draw round Life.

"I have lost many time through the disease. And on the level is also a sadness take a break age. But every day Side-splitting think I'm grateful to substance sitting here.

And that Uproarious can still sing."

In her in response single, 2018's Sing Me Spruce Song, the star appeared form address her mortality, singing: "The love I had and gave / Makes it hard contact say goodbye" over an smart, mournful jazz backing.

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Fredriksson is survived be oblivious to her husband Mikael Bolyos pole their two children.

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