Love & Devotion - Lovin’ and Devotion (1996) Swedish europop classic

Love and Devotion is a duo consisting of Pia Hillgard and Maria Frennberg who has known each others for more than 12 years now, and who has sung together for 10 years. They met at school when they both lived in the town of Kungsbacka at the Swedish West Coast. Together they played theatre and sang playback at discoteques. Then Pia moved south to Varberg and Maria to Göteborg. When Pia came to Varberg she joined a band called Surprise, who sang covers. In 1995 the girls got together again and made an ABBA-show called Waterloo together with a gang of Varberg musicians. The show became a success, and Håkan Lundberg and Jonas Blees, two musical writers and producers looking for a singer to perform their music discovered Pia and Maria. Håkan and Jonas were supposed to select one of the girls, but could not decide which one so they decided both. Then they started to make songs especially for Pia and Maria. Love and Devotion was born. Their first single was Can’t get enough. It became a minor hit in the spring of