Rutger Gunnarsson

Rutger Gunnarsson ( born February 12, 1946 in Linköping, Sweden) is a Swedish musician ( bassist ), arranger and music producer.

Gunnarsson began his musical career in the 1960s together with Björn Ulvaeus at the Hootenanny Singers. His greatest attention he found through his work at all eight studio albums the band ABBA in the years 1974 until 1982. During the four singers Björn, Benny, Agnetha and Anni -Frid always achieved a strong public perception, the musicians were behind the singers as Gunnarsson or the drummer Ola Brunkert relatively unknown. Gunnarsson is heard in all the major hits of ABBA Waterloo, Dancing Queen and The Winner takes it all and is one of the most bassists were the history of music at an estimated ABBA plates 370 million sold. Between 1977 and 1980, Gunnarsson went with ABBA on tour. In ABBA - The Movie, he worked with as an actor.

After the release of ABBA Gunnarsson was on the arrangements for the musicals Chess, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia! and the Diggiloo show involved. Strings and horns he arranged among other things for Adam Ant, Céline Dion, Elton John, Westlife and Spider- Man 2, as a producer he worked for Alla Pugacheva and Lasse Stefanz. Other famous Swedish musicians with whom Gunnarsson worked, Kikki Danielsson are, Lotta Engberg, Tomas Ledin, Ulf Lundell, Lena Philipsson, Magnus Uggla and Robert Wells.