Disturbing news for fans of the band Roxette- the soloist of the group is forced to end her musical career due to illness. Marie Fredriksson A few years ago she suffered from cancer, but she feels its consequences even now. Due to Marie's poor health, the group has already announced the cancellation of the group's tour, and a few hours ago it became known that Fredriksson decided not to tour anymore.
In 2002, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. After surgery and intensive care, she became blind in one eye. She had to learn to read and write again. Her recovery was amazing. In 2004 and 2006 she released a solo album, and since 2009 she continues to perform in the group Roxette.
Fans of the group who attended the last performances of the group note that the legendary voice of Mary does not sound the same as before, she does not get into the rhythm, sometimes into the notes. When she tried to speak to the audience, her speech sounded tense, and the singer was never shown close-up on large screens.
After criticism of Roxette's performance in Sydney, Australia, which was heard in some tabloids, was the last straw. In addition, it turned out that after the last examination, the doctors forbade Marie from touring.
On the page of the group in the social network, the singer turned to her fans.
“These thirty years with you have been amazing! When I remember our previous meetings, I feel happiness and joy. All concerts will forever remain the best part of my life. Unfortunately, for me, all the tours are behind me, and I want to thank all my fans who have gone through this long and difficult journey with me. ” Marie wrote.
At the same time, the singer is not going to stop her creative activity - she will still actively participate in the process of creating new Roxette songs. In June, the band's new album "Good Karma" is due out, which Marie considers the best album in all the years of the band's work.
The 57-year-old lead singer of the popular Swedish band Roxette, Gun-Marie Fredriksson, is leaving the stage forever due to a brain tumor, and the band will never perform in the same lineup.
The popular Swedish Roxette has canceled the final shows of their world tour. This was due to the deteriorating health of vocalist Gun-Marie Fredriksson, who was suffering from the consequences of a brain tumor.
Doctors advised the artist to stop concert performances.
According to the group's producer, the 57-year-old star is leaving the stage, and Roxette will no longer perform in the same lineup. However, Fredriksson will be able to record compositions in his home studio.
The tour in honor of the 30th anniversary of the group was supposed to begin on June 3 and take place in many European countries, including Russia on September 9 and 11.
During all these years of its activity, the Roxette group gave 550 concerts and sold 75 million albums worldwide.
Roxette - Spending My Time
Gun-Marie Fredriksson was born on May 30, 1958 in Essjö (Sweden). Swedish singer, composer, songwriter, pianist, best known as the lead singer of the pop rock band Roxette (along with Per Gessle).
She took part in the recording of solo albums by Per Gessle and the Swedish band Gyllene Tider.
He also has a solo career.
She currently lives in Jørsholm, a suburb of Stockholm. She is married to Mikael Bolyos, with whom she has two children: daughter Yousefin (1993) and son Oscar (1996).
On September 11, 2002, Marie returned home from her morning run and, being in the bathroom, felt unwell. She fainted, hitting her head on the sink. A few hours later, she was brought to the Stockholm Karolinska Hospital, where the singer was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
A few weeks later, the operation to remove it was successful. For several years, Marie was in rehabilitation.
During treatment (doctors bet 1:2 that the tumor could be fatal), she received certain brain damage and related limitations, such as the loss of the ability to read and count, complete loss of vision in her right eye, and partial loss of motor activity in her right eye. sides of the body.
Due to illness, the singer was unable to take part in the recording of the planned Roxette album "The Pop Hits". Her colleague Per Gessle performed all the songs himself (from those written specifically for this collection), but Marie still found the strength to perform backing vocals in the only single "Opportunity Nox". All scheduled concerts from The Night of the Proms, which were scheduled to take place in Belgium and the Netherlands in early 2003, were also cancelled.
At the end of January 2003, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden awarded Marie (and Per Gessle) the Royal Medal on a Blue Ribbon. At this ceremony, Marie made her first public appearance since her surgery.
Six months after the operation, while still in the process of rehabilitation, she took part in the recording of Per Gessle's solo album "Mazarin" (2003). Marie recorded backing vocals for the song "På promenad genom stan" (Walking around the city) at Vinden Studios, in her own home in Djursholm. From there, the material was sent to Peru to Halmstad, where the finished composition was mixed.
Around the same time, work began on Marie's solo album, the songs in which she first decided to perform and record in English. The disc was called "The Change" (Change). The single "2:nd Chance" debuted on the Swedish charts on the first line, and a year after the release, on November 26, 2004, according to IFPI, the album became "gold" (20,000 copies sold in Sweden).
On October 21, 2005, it was officially announced that Marie had recovered and was no longer undergoing treatment.
However, in April 2016, Gun-Marie Fredriksson again felt a deterioration in her health.
Marie Fredriksson(full name: Gun-Marie Fredriksson) genus. May 30, 1958, Essjö, Sweden) is a Swedish singer, composer, songwriter, pianist, better known as the lead singer of the pop-rock duo Roxette (along with Feather Gessle). Took part in the recording of solo albums by Per Gessle and the Swedish band Gylene Tider. She currently lives in Jürsholm, a suburb of Stockholm. married to Mikael Boyos(Mikael Bolyos), daughter Yousefin, son Oscar. As a teenager, Marie discovered artists such as Joni Mitchell, The Beatles and Deep Purple - then her interest in music grew even more. At the age of 17, she entered the College of Music and performed there in the local theater. However, she soon got tired of acting. Marie firmly decided that she would become a singer - “I want to be a singer. I am a singer!".
For years, Per and Marie have talked about starting to work together. Marie sang backing vocals on many songs by Per's band Gyllene Tider, they worked together in Spännande Ostar and other projects, including Gyllene Tider's attempt to release an English-language album in the US. Fredriksson's career was taking off in Sweden, while Per, the former vocalist of a boy band, was on the decline in his solo career. Friends and colleagues warned her against working with Gessle. His idea was to start a duo, sing in English and try to be successful in Europe. At that time, it was not customary for Swedish musicians to sing in English, and this idea could turn into a failure for Marie's successful career, but she took a risk that later paid off in full.
In 1986, she teamed up with Per in a duet called Roxette- This is the name Gyllene Tider used on the release of the album "The Heartland Cafe" in the United States. Their first single "Neverending Love" became popular in Sweden, and their debut album Roxette " Pearls of Passion breathed life into Gessle's fading career and further established Marie as a serious performer.
In 1989, Roxette returned to the studio and recorded their second album, look Sharp!”, with which the duet re-entered the local charts. However, in the same year, the group unexpectedly had a No. 1 hit in the USA - “ The look". Almost overnight, Fredriksson and Gessle became global celebrities, touring the planet, selling millions of albums and receiving various awards. Album Look Sharp! became very popular, two singles from it reached the first position of the American charts. In 1990, the film company touchstone pictures"offered Peru to write a song for the upcoming film" Gorgeous". The musicians at that time were very busy working on the next album, and Per just reworked the words of one of his Christmas songs and called it " It Must Have Been Love". The song was featured in the film, became #1 in the US and is still one of Roxette's most famous songs. During the world tour "Join the Joyride Tour" in Australia, Marie became friends with a friend of the band's musicians, Mikael Boyos. Three days after they met, they got engaged, and a year later Fredriksson was pregnant. Being in position, she gave several concerts in Sweden in support of the album " Den standiga Resan”, and also performed with Roxette on MTV Unplugged. On April 29, 1993, her daughter Ines Yousefin was born. In 1996, Marie recorded an album of the best ballads in Spanish with Roxette and her new solo album " I en tid som vår(In times like ours). In the same year, her second child, son Oscar Mikael, was born.
Illness and rehabilitation
On September 11, 2002, Marie returned home from her morning run and, being in the bathroom, felt unwell. She fainted, hitting her head on the sink. A few hours later, she was brought to the Stockholm Karolinska Hospital, where the singer was diagnosed with a brain tumor. A few weeks later, the operation to remove it was successful. For several years, Marie was in rehabilitation. During treatment (doctors bet 1:2 that the tumor could be fatal), she received certain brain damage and related limitations, such as the loss of the ability to read and count, complete loss of vision in her right eye, and partial loss of motor activity in her right eye. sides of the body. Due to illness, the singer was unable to take part in the recording of the planned Roxette album " The Pop Hits". Her colleague Per Gessle himself performed all the songs (from those written specifically for this collection), but Marie still found the strength to perform backing vocals in the only single " Opportunity Nox". All scheduled concerts in the series were also cancelled. The Night of the Proms, which were to be held in Belgium and the Netherlands in early 2003. At the end of January 2003, the King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf awarded Marie (and Per Gessle) Royal Medal on Blue Ribbon. At this ceremony, Marie made her first public appearance since her surgery.
Return
In February 2006, Mari returns with a new album " Min bade van(My Best Friend), on which she recorded cover versions of the most beloved songs of her childhood. Only two singles saw the light: “ Sommarang" (author Jon Holm) and " Ingen kommer undan politiken(promo single only). In May 2009, Marie took part in two concerts by Per Gessle Party Crash tour 2009, announcing the return to the stage and the continuation of cooperation with Per as part of the duo that never officially broke up Roxette.
(full name: Gun-Marie Fredriksson) (Swedish Gun-Marie Fredriksson, born May 30, 1958, Essjö, Sweden) is a Swedish singer, composer, songwriter, pianist, better known as the lead singer of the pop-rock duo Roxette (together with Per Gessle). She took part in the recording of solo albums by Per Gessle and the Swedish band Gyllene Tider. Solo career. She currently lives in Jürsholm, a suburb of Stockholm. Married to Mikael Bolyos, daughter Yousefin, son Oscar.
Biography
Youth and early career
As a teenager, Marie discovered artists such as Joni Mitchell, The Beatles and Deep Purple - then her interest in music grew even more. At the age of 17, she entered the College of Music and performed there in the local theater. However, she soon got tired of acting. Marie firmly decided that she would become a singer - “I want to be a singer. I am a singer!". Participation in theatrical performances helped her, and soon she moved to Halmstad, where she began to perform on the city stage. Together with her friend Stefan, she organized the group Strul, which played in the Halmstad clubs and even recorded a single. After that, the group broke up, and Marie and her new friend Martin Sternhuvsvud (Martin Sternhuvsvud) began to perform as MaMas Barn. Together they recorded a full-length album "Barn Som Barn". After the release of the record, Per Gessle, the vocalist of the popular Swedish band Gyllene Tider, invited Marie to use his acoustic studio for work, so they became friends. Per believed that Marie was too talented to hide behind the synthesizer of small bands that perform in pubs, and invited her to meet with influential and well-known Swedish producer Lasse Lindbom (Lasse Lindbom). He was impressed by the singer's voice and offered her a contract. Marie's family did not support her, with the exception of sisters Ulla-Britt and Tina. Mother Marie believed that her daughter should get an education and get a serious job, that music would certainly lead to drugs and failure. With the support of the sisters and Pera, Marie decided to sign the proposed contract and start working as a backing vocalist.
Lasse Lindbom invited Marie to sing a duet with him and record the song “S? n?ra nu", after which Marie could become a member of his project, "The Lasse Lindbom Band". Per Gessle urged the singer to start a solo career, she hesitated for a long time, but in the end she recorded her first solo album "Het vind", which Lindbom produced.
"?nnu doftar k?rlek" became the first single and achieved great success on the radio. The album itself received very mixed reviews. One newspaper wrote: "Is this the best thing you can do, Marie?". The singer was mortified, saying that the article in that newspaper was like a "knife in the heart" to her. She went on tour with Lasse Lindbom's band as she didn't feel confident enough to give a recital. Lasse, Marie, Per Gessle and Mats MP Persson formed a new band called "Sp?nnande Ostar" (Exciting Cheeses), which played in different clubs for several months. That same year, Marie and Lasse traveled to the Canary Islands to write songs for Marie's second solo album. They soon returned to Sweden to perform and record their compositions.
The album was released in 1986 under the name "Den Sjunde V?gen" (The Ninth Wave). The singles were "Den b?sta dagen" and "Silver i din hand". The album received very good reviews from critics, and then Marie decided to go on tour on her own - as a solo artist.
For years, Per and Marie have talked about starting to work together. Marie sang backing vocals on many songs by Per's band Gyllene Tider, they worked together on Sp?nnande Ostar and on other projects, including Gyllene Tider's attempt to release an English-language album in the US. Fredriksson's career was taking off in Sweden, while Per, the former vocalist of a boy band, was on the decline in his solo career. Friends and colleagues warned her against working with Gessle. His idea was to start a duo, sing in English and try to be successful in Europe. At that time, it was not customary for Swedish musicians to sing in English, and this idea could turn into a failure for Marie's successful career, but she took a risk that later paid off in full.
In 1986, she teamed up with Per in a duet called Roxette, the name Gyllene Tider used on the US release of The Heartland Cafe. Their first single "Neverending Love" became popular in Sweden, and Roxette's debut album "Pearls of Passion" breathed life into Gessle's fading career and further established Marie as a serious performer.
The new project was very successful in Sweden. However, Marie did not want to lose fans of her solo work. Therefore, immediately after the tour "Rock Runt Riket" with Roxette, she decided to record a new solo album. And this time, Lasse Lindbom, a producer and author of many songs, helped her in her work. The work took place in two sessions, in May and September 1987. "Efter Stormen", the third solo album, has become even more popular than the previous two. The release of the record was followed by a promotional tour of Sweden, but this time the compositions were performed in a more acoustic version than before, thus creating a new atmosphere at the performance.
In February 1989, Marie recorded the song "Sparv?ga" for a Swedish television series. This composition, the title theme of the show, has become one of her favorites and one of her most recognizable songs. Since that time, Marie has become one of the most popular singers in Sweden.
Worldwide success with Roxette
In 1989, Roxette returned to the studio and recorded their second album Look Sharp!, with which the duo re-entered the local charts. However, in the same year, the group unexpectedly had a No. 1 hit in the US - "The Look". Almost overnight, Fredriksson and Gessle became global celebrities, touring the planet, selling millions of albums and receiving various awards. Album Look Sharp! became very popular, two singles from it reached the first position of the American charts.
In 1990, Touchstone Pictures invited Peru to write a song for the forthcoming film Pretty Woman. The musicians at that time were very busy working on the next album, and Per just reworked the words of one of his Christmas songs and called it "It Must Have Been Love". The song was featured in the film, became #1 in the US and is still one of Roxette's most famous songs.
In 1991, the album "Joyride" was released, the group had another No. 1 hit. The release of the album was followed by an extensive tour "Join the Joyride", during which they visited more than 100 cities between 1991 and 1992.
During the world tour "Join the Joyride Tour" in Australia, Marie became friends with a friend of the band's musicians, Mikael Boiosh. Three days after they met, they got engaged, and a year later Fredriksson was pregnant. While pregnant, she played several shows in Sweden in support of Den st?ndiga Resan and also performed with Roxette on MTV Unplugged. On April 29, 1993, her daughter Ines Yousefin was born.
In 1996, Marie recorded an album of the best ballads in Spanish with Roxette and her new solo album "I en tid som v?r" (In times like ours). In the same year, her second child, son Oscar Mikael, was born.
In 1998-1999 Roxette recorded the album "Have a Nice Day" in Spain. In 2000, Fredriksson released a collection of her greatest hits called "?ntligen - Marie Fredrikssons b?sta 1984-2000". The release of the CD was followed by a very successful summer tour in Sweden. The concert in Stockholm was filmed and released the same year on DVD along with an audio CD in a carton "?ntligen - Sommarturn?". The album was published in over 350,000 copies. Two singles were released from the disc - "?ntligen" and "Det som var nu".
In 1998, Marie's mother, Ines, died, but only Swedish newspapers wrote about this event, and many of the singer's fans did not know about it for several years. Later, Marie accidentally mentioned this fact in an interview and said that her mother suffered from Parkinson's disease for several years and the singer called her almost every day.
In 2002, a deluxe edition (box set) "K?rlekens Guld" (Gold of Love) was released. Five albums with improved sound quality have been supplemented with previously unreleased songs, as well as new booklets and new artwork.
Illness and rehabilitation
On September 11, 2002, Marie returned home from her morning run and, being in the bathroom, felt unwell. She fainted, hitting her head on the sink. A few hours later, she was brought to the Stockholm Karolinska Hospital, where a brain tumor was found in the singer. A few weeks later, the operation to remove it was successful. For several years, Marie was in rehabilitation. During treatment (doctors bet 1:2 that the tumor could be fatal), she received certain brain damage and related limitations, such as the loss of the ability to read and count, complete loss of vision in her right eye, and partial loss of motor activity in her right eye. sides of the body.
Due to illness, the singer was unable to take part in the recording of the planned Roxette album "The Pop Hits". Her colleague Per Gessle performed all the songs himself (from those written specifically for this collection), but Marie still found the strength to perform backing vocals in the only single "Opportunity Nox". All scheduled concerts from The Night of the Proms, which were scheduled to take place in Belgium and the Netherlands in early 2003, were also cancelled.
At the end of January 2003, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden awarded Marie (and Per Gessle) the Royal Medal on a Blue Ribbon. At this ceremony, Marie made her first public appearance since her surgery.
Six months after the operation, while still in the process of rehabilitation, she took part in the recording of Per Gessle's solo album "Mazarin" (2003). Marie recorded backing vocals for the song "P? promenad genom stan" (Walking around the city) at the Vinden studio, in his own house in Djursholm. From there, the material was sent to Peru to Halmstad, where the finished composition was mixed.
Around the same time, work began on Marie's solo album, the songs in which she first decided to perform and record in English. The disc was called "The Change" (Change). The single "2:nd Chance" debuted on the Swedish charts on the first line, and a year after the release, on November 26, 2004, according to IFPI, the album became "gold" (20,000 copies sold in Sweden). In connection with the release of the disc, Marie and her husband Mike Boiosh announced the creation of a new recording studio MaryJane Music, which, according to the official website, will record all the solo albums of the singer. The site also says that the creativity of the musicians is "evolving", so the releases of some musical projects of friends Marie and Micke are not excluded.
On October 21, 2005, it was officially announced that Marie had recovered and was no longer undergoing treatment.
Return
In February 2006, Mari returns with a new album "Min b?ste v?n" (My best friend), on which she recorded cover versions of the most favorite songs of her childhood. Only two singles saw the light: "Sommar?ng" (author Jon Holm) and "Ingen kommer undan politiken" (promo single only).
While Marie was undergoing chemotherapy, she rediscovered her passion for drawing. Since she could no longer read or write, drawing became the only thing she could do and what she really did with all her passion. All her previous graphic creations were never taken out of the house, but from October 21 to 30, the exhibition "After The Change" (After the change) still opened its doors to visitors - 24 charcoal drawings were exhibited at the Doktor Glas gallery in Kungstr?dg?rden . Later, a book of the same name was released with all 24 reproductions.
On November 28, 2007, Marie's best-ballad compilation album "Tid f?r tystnad" (Time of Silence) was released. There are two new songs on the album: "Ett bord i solen" (Swedish translation of "A Table in the Sun") and "Ordet ?r farv?l".
On February 8, 2008, the second exhibition of Marie's work entitled "Ett bord i solen" opened at So Stockholm Gallery in Stockholm. The exhibition also sold a book published exclusively in 300 copies. In the book you can find 6 portraits of Marie, a description of all her works, as well as reproductions of 37 paintings from the opening day. The singer says that of all the "art forms" she currently prefers painting, both in charcoal and pastel. In an interview dedicated to the opening of the vernissage, the singer admitted that as a result of brain surgery in 2002, she completely lost her sight in her right eye and it will never recover.
In mid-2008, Marie recorded the song "D?r du andas" (Where do you breathe) (written by Niklas Strömstedt and Anders Glenmark) for the Swedish film Arn - The Kingdom at the End of the Road (Arn - Riket vid v?gens slut). On August 28, for the first time in the singer's career, this single debuted on the official Swedish music charts at number 1. A week later, the single dropped to number 3, losing first place to Katy Perry with the single "I kissed a girl", and second place to Ole Svensson with the single "Feelgood".
From September 20 to October 5, 2008 another exhibition of Marie's paintings was held in Gothenburg. The Lilla Galleriet was open from Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 16:00.
In May 2009, Marie took part in two concerts of Per Gessle's Party Crasher tour 2009, announcing her return to the stage and the continuation of her collaboration with Per as part of the never officially broken up duo Roxette.
The Swedish band Roxette is familiar to many, because more than one generation has grown up on its songs. However, now difficult times have come for the musicians and their fans: Marie Fredriksson, who was one of the founders of the pop-rock band Roxette and its soloist for almost 30 years, is saying goodbye to them.
The fight against cancer has been going on for over 20 years
Now Marie is 57 years old, of which the famous performer has been fighting a brain tumor for the last two decades. However, Fredriksson has never interrupted her performances on stage due to illness. On April 18, the band's official Facebook page announced that the Roxette 30th Anniversary World Tour was being postponed. This was the prescription of Marie's doctor, who recommended that she refuse to travel due to her deteriorating health.
Fredriksson learned about the terrible disease in the 90s, and in 2002 she underwent surgery to remove the tumor. After that, long years of rehabilitation and constant maintenance of health began. The singer underwent chemotherapy courses, but when they did not give positive dynamics, she had to resort to radiation therapy. However, according to Marie, the disease seems to have reminded of itself again: she began to have memory problems and it became very difficult for her to walk.
On the Facebook page, the singer wrote a rather touching message to her fans: “These 30 years have been truly amazing! Happiness and joy overwhelm me when I think and remember the tours with which I had to ride around the world. All these concerts are part of my life. Now, unfortunately, I will not be able to go on a trip and speak to you. For me, the concerts are over. I thank all the fans who have been with us all these years and have gone through this thorny and long journey.”
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Marie will continue to write songs
Despite a serious illness, the singer is not going to mess around. She said that she would continue to write songs, as well as participate in their recording. In addition, Fredriksson hopes that she will be able to see the appearance of the new album of the group, which is called "Good Karma". “In my opinion, this is the best collection of Roxette songs in the history of the band. I am sure that all our fans will be delighted with him. Wait for his appearance in June, ”the singer said in one of her interviews.
Who will replace the soloist now and when the world tour will begin is unknown. However, fans have already flooded the internet with requests for the group to return to the stage as soon as possible.
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