Sit down before you witness Agnetha Faltskog, who rose to fame with “ABBA,” at age 72.

With her two childhood friends, Faltskog started the band The Cambers in 1960 when she was just 13 years old. They only performed a few little shows in the neighborhood before she decided it was time for something else two years later.

Agneta became a member of the Swedish folk band Bernt Enghardt. Swedish dancing music was played while the band made its way around Sweden.

“Before me, a vocalist named Agneta resigned,” Agnetha recalls. “It was a major plus that I was also called Agnetha when they discovered me, and after I had an audition after they placed posters looking for a new vocalist.”

Faltskog was on tour with Bernt Enghardt while still working as a telephonist for a car company, but her circumstances could have been better.

She arrived home after midnight, “around two or three,” and was scheduled to report to work shortly afterward. She even passed out at the auto company one day, and her mother gave her a choice.

Agnetha recalls her mother telling her, “‘Either you work as a normal person, or you dedicate totally to singing. “I wanted to keep singing, so it wasn’t difficult.”

Before departing to launch a solo career, Agnetha sang with the Bernt Enghardt band for another two years. She changed her last name to include an “h” after releasing her debut solo album.

Faltskog’s first hit, Jag var s kär [I Was So In Love], was made public when he was just 17 years old. As soon as it reached No. 1 on the Swedish sales chart in 1968, Bjorn Ulvaeus heard it on the radio.

“I recall listening to Agnetha’s debut single on the radio. In the BBC documentary Agnetha: Abba and After, Benny commented, “There was something so extraordinary about her voice and that she had written the song herself – it was beautiful.

“She did some sort of back-to-back, good songs,” Benny Andersson continued. She performed admirably, singing in unison with herself.