After the movie, Dear leaves the album of Abba covers

ABBA TRIBUTE. Cher is about to release an album with songs from the Swedish band Abba. Cher plays Donna's mother (Meryl Streep) in the rest of the movie "Mama Mia". Photo by Anthony Harvey / AFP

In a new surge of activity from the 72-year-old singer and actress, Cher said her creative spirit was revived after singing one of the signature tunes on "Mamma Mia!" Here Go Again, "coming out" After doing "Fernando", I thought it would be really fun to make an album of Abba songs, so I did it, "he said. Dear on the NBC television channel Today . (WATCH: Dear takes Abba in the wake of "Mamma Mia")

"This is not what you think of Abba, because I did it. differently, "says Cher without revealing any tracklist or release date.

The album would be Cher's first work in studio since the 2013 dance music album Closer to the Truth . The former half of the folk duo Sonny and Cher has experienced a career resurgence in the 1990s and holds the record for the longest gap between the number one songs on the US chart at nearly 25 years.

Dear in recent years it's mostly focused on show residence in Las Vegas. She had not appeared in a film since she had given her voice to a lion in the 2011 film Zookeeper .

The original Mamma Mia ! The musical, then the film weave Abba songs to tell the story of Sophie, who plans her wedding on a Greek island alongside her free mother, Donna, and seeks to identify her father, with comic results.

For the rest, Cher portrays Donna's mother, played again by Meryl Streep, as she finds out how to act as a grandmother.

The film comes shortly after Abba unveiled the new music, 35 years after the latest single from The Bubblegum Pop Dancers. – Rappler.com