Tribute to Marie Fredriksson (Roxette)

Please leave a like, subscribe and enable the notifications to know more! Help us build this channel, comment on what else you want to know, and share it with your friends. ... Gun-Marie Fredriksson (30 May 1958 – 9 December 2019) was a Swedish pop singer-songwriter, pianist and painter, known for forming pop rock duo Roxette in 1986 alongside Per Gessle. The duo achieved international success in the late 1980s and early &with their albums Look Sharp! (1988) and Joyride (1991), and had six top two hits on the Billboard Hot 100: The Look, Listen to Your Heart, Dangerous, It Must Have Been Love, Joyride and Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave). Fredriksson had a successful career in her native country prior to forming Roxette, when she was a member of punk group Strul, a band which created their own music festival in 1979. After that, her first solo album, Het vind, was issued in 1984, followed by Den sjunde vågen in 1986 and ... Efter stormen in 1987. Roxette&international breakthrough coincided with a period of inactivity for Fredriksson as a solo artist, punctuated only by the release of the non-album single Sparvöga in 1989. Subsequent solo albums included Den ständiga resan (1992) and I en tid som vår (1996). In 2002, after fainting at home, Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In January 2003, King of Sweden Carl Gustaf XVI awarded Roxette the &Medal with Blue Ribbon&award. It was the first event Fredriksson appeared at after her operation....