“She had no self confidence, and said she couldn’t sing any more,” Gessle told the Guardian in 2012. Roxette had a hiatus while Fredriksson was treated for and recovered from her brain tumour, but reformed in 2009 after she went to see Gessle perform a solo show in Holland, and made an impromptu guest appearance. In May 2018, she released a new single, Sing Me a Song, to mark her 60th birthday. Fredriksson also released eight solo albums, three of which topped the Swedish charts – she scored her first chart-topping solo single in 2008 with Där Du Andas. The pair would go on to sell an estimated 75m records worldwide, and record 10 studio albums. Beginning with The Look in 1989, they had four US No 1 hits: Listen to Your Heart, Joyride, and – perhaps the best known of all – power ballad It Must Have Been Love, which also reached No 3 in the UK and was included on the soundtrack to Pretty Woman. The duo had hits in Sweden, but it wasn’t until an American exchange student took their second album back to Minneapolis, and handed it to a radio station, that they became a word-of-mouth success in the US. Fredriksson had had a moderate solo career, while Gessle had found success with his band Gyllene Tider, who had broken up after renaming themselves Roxette.Ġ0:49 Marie Fredriksson: Listen to Your Heart through the years – video The pair, who first met in the late 1970s, formed in 1986 on the suggestion of a Swedish record executive. Her partner in Roxette, Per Gessle, expressed his love for Fredriksson and her family, and said: “Things will never be the same.” She was able to perform until 2016, when she announced her retirement due to the effects of her illness. She survived, but had health problems as a result of radiation therapy. A subsequent MRI scan revealed she had a brain tumour, and she was given a 25% chance of survival.
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In September 2002, Fredriksson had a seizure in her bathroom and suffered a cracked skull.
Her family said in a statement to Expressen, a newspaper in her native Sweden: “It is with great sadness that we have to announce that one of our biggest and most beloved artists is gone.” Marie Fredriksson, who as the singer of Roxette was one of the most recognisable voices in 1980s and 90s pop, has died aged 61 following a long illness.
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