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He was a manager, songwriter and producer born in
Hova, Sweden, who studied at the Ingesunds high school. When he was still young he learned
the guitar and would entertain people at parties and local functions. He left school when he was fifteen
and later studied to become a teacher of maths and chemistry. He he started a trio with Borje
Crona and his future partner, Bengt Bernhag, but as a songwriter the first
recording of his "The Icing on the Cake" (Grada pa Moset) in 1950, was not
a success for the artist Harry Brandelius. Moving to Stockholm and taking on a position as a
teacher he would soon tire of this as a career and started his own
publishing company, Sweden Music.
He also became a manager and producer after he saw success with his 2Are
You in Love With Me, Klaus Goran?" performed by the singer Lil-Babs, and one
of the first artists he looked after were the group The Hootenanny Singers. Before he was 30 years old he had
founded the record label Polar Music and within the next decade had became
the manager of the Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anna-Frid Lyngstad and
Agnetha Faltskog, who would become the internationally successful group
ABBA. Initially co-writing on
some of their songs, he would also arrange their international record deals
and commercial and financial interests, as well as those of Polar Music. Discovered by the members of ABBA
to have made serious errors in their investments and tax payments, taken a
percentage of their profits, and other instances of mis-management, this
resulted in a financial nightmare for the artists. Although the members entered a
complaint to the court though, there was no action taken. In 1989 he was a founder of the Polar
Music Prize but in 1990 he sold the company, ABBA copyright and licensing
rights to Polygram. His
daughter, Marie, started her own company, Anderson Records, which was the
company that Frida released the album Djupa Andetag with in 1996. He died in 1997 of a heart attack
when he was 66 years old.
Debby
Boone recordings
Hasta
Manana (Benny Andersson/Bjorn Ulvaeus/Stig Andersson)
Sources:
- http://koti.mbnet.fi/~abba/stig.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stikkan_Anderson
- http://www.abba-world.net/facts/stig.htm
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