Roxette is a Swedish pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. The duo became an international act from the late 1980s, when they released their breakthrough album Look Sharp! while their third album Joyride became just as successful. Roxette went onto achieve nineteen UK Top 40 hits and several US Hot 100 hits, including four US number-ones with "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love", and "Joyride". Other hits included "Dangerous", "Fading Like a Flower" and "Dressed for Success".
Marie Fredriksson died on 9 December 2019, at the age of 61, following a long battle with a brain tumour. The day of her death, the music video for "It Must Have Been Love", posted on Roxette's official YouTube channel, had reached over 430 million views.