Marie Fredriksson Of Roxette Dies

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The music world has dressed in mourning for the passing of Marie Fredriksson, lead singer of the Swedish pop music group Roxette.

The blonde died on Monday, December 9, at the age of 61, according to spokesmen for the company Dimberg Jernberg Management through a statement.

Fredriksson succumbed to cancer that he battled for over seventeen years, according to People. In 2002, the band went into hiatus when the singer was diagnosed with a brain tumor. This was removed, but the treatment caused permanent blindness in one eye.

The Roxette group rose to fame in the 1980s for hits such as "Joy Ride", "Listen to Your Heart" and "It Must Have Been Love", which to date have accumulated hundreds of millions of views on YouTube and which They are classics of 20th century pop music.

"It Must Have …" catapulted them to fame as part of the soundtrack for Pretty Woman (1990), starring Julia Roberts.

In 2009 and after the hiatus caused by his initial cancer diagnosis, Fredriksson rejoined Roxette for the seven-year long The Neverending Tour. The group also released three more albums.

"Time goes by so fast. It wasn't long ago that we spent days + nights in my apartment sharing impossible dreams,”said Gessle, Frederiksson's partner in the band for more than thirty-five years. "It has been an honor to know your talent and generosity."

The artist is survived by her husband Mikael Bolyos and their two sons Oscar Mikael, 23; and Inez Josefin, 26. May he rest in peace.