Roxette Per Gessle Marie Frederickson

 Per Gessle and Marie Frederickson first met in Hallstand in Sweden in 1970 when Marie was playing the electric piano with a band called Strul. The group wasn’t making a lot of money so she was also working in a hospital as a nurse, teaching music and working as a gardener.  Per was spending his time weighing mushrooms, singing folk songs to sick people in hospitals and teaching in a school.  Later, in the 1980s Per was performing in a group called Golden Times and Marie was a solo singer. They were both very successful and lots of people bought their records and went to their concerts. Per left his group and began to sing with Marie.

 An American student took a CD of their music home to Minneapolis and told his local radio station, “You must play this record!” The songs was called The Look. After a few weeks, DJs all over America were playing the song. It wasn’t long before The Look was number one in the American pop charts.  Now they are very famous everywhere, but in Sweden they are of course superstars, you can even see their pictures on Swedish postage stamps.