The Swedish Europop quartet ABBA first debuted as a cabaret act under the name Festfolk, a play on two words with nearly identical pronunciations in Swedish: festfolk, meaning “party people,” and fästfolk, a 1970s slang term for “engaged couples.” Once they began to gain more recognition from participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, the group’s manager, Stig Anderson, took it upon himself to officially dub them ABBA—an acronym derived from the members’ first names: Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
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