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Band members Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson
and Anni-Frid Lyngstad will team up with "American Idol" creator
Simon Fuller and Universal Music Group for the collaboration.
"We are exploring a new technological world, with Virtual
Reality and Artificial Intelligence at the forefront, that will
allow us to create new forms of entertainment and content we
couldn't have previously imagined," Fuller said in a statement.
Over a 30-year-career, Fuller has managed singers Annie Lennox,
The Spice Girls and Amy Winehouse, English soccer player David
Beckham, tennis player Andy Murray, racing driver Lewis Hamilton
and a trio of "American Idol" champions: Kelly Clarkson, Carrie
Underwood and David Cook.
ABBA, known for a string of 1970s and early 1980s hits such as
"Waterloo", "Dancing Queen" and "Take A Chance On Me", split up
in 1982.
"Our fans around the world are always asking us to reform and so
I hope this new ABBA creation will excite them as much as it
excites me!" Lyngstad said in a statement.
Further details of the collaboration will be announced next
year.
(Reporting by Ilze Filks in Stockholm; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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