About Fabba
Meet the FABBA Team
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida) aka Anthea J
Anthea studied as an actor/singer under Hayes Gordon at The Ensemble Studios.
Her passion from a young child has always been musical theatre.
She has worked in all areas of the entertainment industry, including feature films, musical theatre, television, voice over work, presenting and singing.
Anthea has written, directed and co-directed many shows and in fact FABBA lends itself to a comedy style musical. As a professional Theatresports performer, Anthea encourages the group to improvise at every show – so it’s always fresh, fun and keeps the audience and the band itself entertained.
FABBA is her baby and she’s incredibly proud of what it has achieved and grateful to get paid to work with such talented people and travel to amazing parts of the world to perform the show. FABBA are like a family to her.
Agnetha Fältskog aka Tamara Miles
Bio coming soon!
Björn Ulvaeus aka Tim Johnson
Tim’s musical background started back in highschool with a band that won numerous competitions including the prestigious, Battle Of The Bands.
He has played lead guitar and co-written songs in various original bands including ‘Change Of Heart’ and ‘Glow’
He has also played in a variety of covers & tribute shows including during the 90’s including ‘Explosive Hits’, ‘The Doors Show’, The Pearl Jam Show’ ‘Vibeology’ & ‘Audio Adrenaline’
Along the way he has played guitar for a variety of artists, including the successful LA act ‘Frank & Barbra’ on their Australian tour.
His FABBA career highlight was performing in Vietnam to a stadium of 15,000 Abba fans.
Tim is always working on original projects with other musicians and singers and also his first solo project which can be heard at www.myspace.com/timmyjay.
Tim, like Bjorn, is a frustrated rock god stuck in the 80’s!
P.S He actually likes wearing lycra!
Benny Andersson aka Chris Hunt
Chris is the Clark Kent of the show. By day he is Director of Instrumental Music at Central Coast Grammar School and on the weekend he dons the white satin jumpsuit to become Benny!
In addition to classroom teaching, his responsibilities include coordination of the school’s highly regarded cocurricular ensembles, private music tuition and Junior School instrumental programs. He has overseen the growth of these programs to feature over fifteen large ensembles, including orchestras, bands, choirs and other instrumental groups and over 300 weekly private lessons.
Chris has been musical director for the school’s celebrated senior productions including Beauty and the Beast, Grease, Looking Both Ways, Aida, Man of Steel, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Guys and Dolls, as well as several drama productions, the Performing Arts Centre Gala Opening and the CCGS 30 th Anniversary Gala Concert.
He has also been sought after as an ensemble conductor for HICES Music Festivals, NSW State Music Camps and Public Schools Instrumental Ensembles, and is Assistant Conductor, Vice President and Principal French Horn of Symphony Central Coast.
He has performed with many orchestras and ensembles around Sydney, and composed music for film, theatre, contemporary dance and instrumental performances. Chris has many similarities to Benny – both are mild mannered, super talented, have real beards and both are virtuoso’s on the piano. He is also channelling another famous Swedish star – The Chef from the Muppets!
Hans Olover aka Michael Papallo (Drums)
Will Indowd aka Alex Keller (Bass)
Alex’s love of music began at an early age, learning piano at age six, and cello in his early teens. In his late teens he started to dabble with the bass guitar. As a cellist, Alex performed with the Sydney and SBS Youth Orchestras and toured throughout Australia, Asia and the South Pacific region. He was also the cellist for the SBS String Quartet.
Alex began his career as an Audio Engineer in 1996, teaching at JMC’s Academy of Audio Engineers, and opening up his own recording studio the following year. Alex began working for the Wiggles in 1998 and since then, has recorded and mixed over 20 Wiggle’s albums and toured all over Australia, USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand, UAE and Asia.
As a bass player, Alex has performed many times with the Wiggle’s Big Show, Over 18’s, iTunes, with Jamie Oliver and on Rove Live. Alex has been The Wiggles session bass player since 2009. Alex has also performed with The Cockroaches and many other original artists.
Alex has performed with FABBA since 2010, after being thrown into the deep end with their Vietnam Tour! Since then, he has enjoyed trips to Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and all over the Australian countryside with the band.
Alex runs a successful mixing suite in the Blue Mountains and composes music for film and television with fellow multi instrumentalist, Vince Pace (Graft Productions). True fact – Alex is the only ‘real’ Swede in the band!
the FABBA family