ABBA Announces New Music and Hologram Tour

ABBA is back after 35 years, with new music and plans for a high-tech tour featuring state of the art holograms.
The Swedish pop group will release its first new music in more than three decades later this year.

The group behind hits like Mama Mia and Dancing Queen announced their reunion on Instagram Friday.
They also confirmed a new tour, but the original band members won’t be hitting the road.
Instead, fans will watch virtual avatars, or Abbatars, that are being called ultra-realistic holograms.

The digital musicians will make their debut one of ABBA’s new songs in December during a TV special on NBC.
The virtual tour kicks off in 2019.
It will use the technology similar to what was used to give Tupac and Michael Jackson a second life.
Audiences were stunned when the King of Pop moonwalked at the 2014 Billboard Awards.
Two years earlier, Tupac’s hologram stole the show at Coachella and its been 10-years since Celine Dion sang a duet with a hologram Elvis on American Idol.
But ABBA will be the first major musical group to tour in a digital form.