Ola Brunkert

Swedish drummer, painter, and photographer. Born 15 September 1946 in Örebro, Sweden; died 16 March 2008 in Mallorca, Spain.

Member of the blues band Slim's Blues Gang, before joining pop group Science Poption in the mid-1960s. Then, through working with guitarist Janne Schaffer in the jazz-pop group [a=Opus III (2)] later in the decade, he started getting work as a session musician from 1970 onwards.

Ola’s first known ABBA-related session was also the group’s very first single, "People Need Love / Merry-Go-Round (En Karusell)". Together with bass player Rutger Gunnarsson, Ola is probably the only musician to appear on all ABBA albums, and he was among the most frequently used Swedish session musicians during the 1970s. He also toured with ABBA in 1977, 1979, and 1980.

He was married to Eva Rydberg from 1969 to 1972.