Frida (album)

Frida
Studio album by Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Released	March 1971
Recorded	8 September 1970 – 15 January 1971
Studio	EMI Studios,
Genre	Easy listening, pop, jazz, folk rock
Length	35:46
Label	Columbia Parlophone (2017 reissue)
Producer	Benny Andersson
Anni-Frid Lyngstad chronology
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Reissue cover
1974 re-release EMI:s Stjärnserie Vol. 7

Frida is the debut studio album by Swedish singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad, released on March 1971 by EMI Columbia. Recorded between September 1970 and January 1971,Frida was produced by her then-fiancé, Benny Andersson. Frida was her only album recorded for EMI during her contract, not counting her eponymous compilation album from 1972, before being signed to Polar and form with the Swedish pop group ABBA, a year later.

The album received positive receptions from critics, both retrospectively and at the time of the album's release, but did not chart, with the exception of her non-album single from the same year, Min Egen Stad, until Frida charted in Sweden, on April 2017 with a limited edition reissue, reaching No. 28 on Sverigetopplistan's album charts.Frida has since been reissued several times by EMI and Parlophone since the original issue of the album.

The recording session of Frida took place at EMI Studios, , now known as X-Level Studios, on 8 September 1970 and was completed in 15 January 1971. Claes Rosendahl and Bengt Palmers both directed the conduction of the orchestra for the respective tracks for Frida. Min Egen Stad was recorded on 12 July 1971 with Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog on uncredited backing vocals, and was completed 11 days later. Lyngstad's cover version of The Beatles' "The Long and Winding Road" from the recording session of Frida remained unreleased, until it was leaked by British-based YouTube channel, 'ABBAtalk' in December 2013.

By the time of the album's release, Lyngstad had been signed to EMI, for four years, since she won a song contest titled 'New Faces' and appeared on a Swedish television show, 'Hylands Hörna' (Hyland's Corner), in September 1967. Not long after the release of the album, in 1972, Lyngstad did not renew her contract with EMI, and was signed to Polar Music to record her first single for the independent Swedish record label, and eventually team up with Andersson, Ulvaeus, and Fältskog to form ABBA. As a result, it is the only album Lyngstad has recorded, under her contract with EMI, as she has made non-album singles between 1967 and 1972.