Singer..Songwriter..Author
Dorina Morelli
Australian singer and songwriter. Toured the world as Frida from Björn Again. Now finally telling the story, and recording the songs, three decades in the making.
Letters Home
a memoir
In 1989, at twenty-two, I became an original member of Björn Again, the ABBA tribute band that helped ignite a global revival of the music. I worked with the band for seventeen years, across Australia, the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For nearly eight of those years, I wrote letters home to my close friend, Vera. She kept every one of them. Thirty years later she handed them back.
Letters Home is the book that emerged, built from the letters Vera received at the time, reflections written thirty years later, and a third thread of stories she never heard, on either side of the touring years.
The book is being prepared for submission. A new solo album is in production.
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My first album, Make Believe, was released in 2007.
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My next solo album is currently in production. The songs are drawn from a catalogue I've been writing for thirty years, written with wonderful collaborators.
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who is she?
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Dorina Morelli is an Australian singer and songwriter, born and based in Melbourne. In 1989, at twenty-two, she became an original member of Björn Again, the ABBA tribute band credited with helping ignite a global revival of the music. She worked with the band for seventeen years, touring Australia, then the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia after the group's relocation to London in 1992.Alongside the touring life, she worked as a songwriter, bringing words and melody to collaborations in studios and writing rooms across London. Her writing partners over the years have included London-based film composer Chad Hobson, West End musical director Phil Hauenstein, and Boo Hewerdine, one of Britain's most respected songwriters.Letters Home is her first book. A new solo album, drawn from a catalogue she's been writing for thirty years, is in production, following her earlier album released in 2007.