Per Gessle

Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson died at the age of 61, her manager has confirmed.

The Swedish star, a global success in the 1990S with hits such as Joyride, The look and It Must have Been Love from the movie Pretty Woman .

had The Singer , on Monday, may 9. December "after a 17-year-long fight against the cancer".

"you were The Most wonderful friend for over 40 Years ," band members said Per Gessle . "Things will never be the same. "

Fredriksson was first diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2002, after collapsing in her kitchen after the workout.

Tumor cost her The Vision in her right Eye But after three years of treatment, she returned to public life and toured with Roxette, from 2008 to 2016.

But , the cancer finally back: Fredriksson, the said family, she had died after a repetition of their "pre-existing condition" at the beginning of This Week .

"Thank you, Marie, thank you for everything," said Gessle in a heartfelt statement.

"you were an outstanding musician, a master of The Voice , an amazing performer. Thank you for painting my black and white songs in The Most beautiful colors. You were The Most wonderful friend for over 40 Years .

"I am proud, honored and happy to able to share so much of your time, talent, warmth, generosity and sense of Humor. All my love goes to you and your family. "

"Marie is leaving us a great musical legacy," added the manager, Marie Dimberg.

"is appearances, your amazing Voice - strong and Sensitive , and their magical live-remembered by all of us, to experience the happiness had. But we also remember a wonderful person with a big appetite For Life , and the woman with a very big heart that cared for everyone she met. "

Originally from Halmstad, Sweden, Roxette for The First time in the late 1970s, as Fredriksson is a member of the pop outfit Strul & Ma Mas barn and Gessle played with Gyllene Tider , one of Sweden's largest groups.

you, the to 1986, always big stars in their homeland with the single Infinite love, followed by a hit album, pearls of passion.

Despite their popularity in Scandinavia, Capitol Records , the release of their records rejected in the United States.

It was not until an American student, studying in Sweden a copy of their second album brought home to Minneapolis, and persuaded a local radio to play DJ, The Look that they achieved international fame.

The song was The First of four US number for The Band , while the parent album, Look Sharp! platinum went.

they reached their greatest success, when their 1987 Christmas single, It Must have Been love, has been re-written for inclusion on the Pretty Woman soundtrack in 1990. It is at the top of The Charts in More Than 10 countries, and Gave The Band their biggest UK hit, reaching number three.

"Roxette" to publish more tours and albums selling More Than 80 million records in the 1990S - finally in the world.

Known for airy pop hits like Dressed For success and power ballads such as Listen To Your heart, you took cheekily of her songwriting philosophy in the title of their 1995 Greatest Hits album Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus .

After a short Pause, during which Gessle again with Gyllene Tider , The Duo scored a further hit albums with 1999 have a Nice day and 2001's Room Service .

Fredriksson the devastating diagnosis of cancer came in The Following year. She spent three years in treatment, and later wrote about the "Fear " that she had experienced, on a solo record, called The Change .

"Suddenly The Change was here," she sang, "Cold as ice and full of Fear / was nothing I could do I saw Slow Motion pictures Of me and you. "

In 2005, Fredriksson Aftonbladet been their treatment successfully, to say: "It's been three really hard years [But ] am I healthy, told the Swedish newspaper. "

The Singer took to painting during your treatment, But surprised Roxette-fans, by a return to the stage with Gessle in Amsterdam in 2008.

The Band later made a comeback mounted tour, sold-out concert halls throughout Europe and released several new albums, But until 2016, Fredriksson health was failing and the doctors advised her to stop touring.

In her autobiography, The Singer wrote about the impact of cancer on your life.

"finally, it feels like I have reconciled myself with a radiation-to-life injuries. This, as it turned out," She Said in The love life.

"I have lost many years due to the disease. And it is also a sadness that age. But Every Day I think, I am grateful to sit here. And I can still sing. "

In her last single, 2018 Sing Me A song, the stars, to the address of your mortality, and sing: "the love I had, and Gave , / Makes it hard to Say Goodbye " an elegant, dark jazz accompaniment.

Fredriksson is survived by her husband, Mikael Bolyos and their Two Children .

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