Hyvönen grew up in Robertsfors, located outside Umeå in the north of Sweden (which is also the hometown of her cousin Josephine Forsman's band Sahara Hotnights).

The album was critically acclaimed, and resulted in Hyvönen winning "Kulturpriset" ("The Culture Prize") in 2009, given by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

The same year, she was the first Swedish pop artist invited to play a show at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, and she completed a collaboration with photographer Elin Berge, "Drottninglandet".

Hyvönen recorded and released music for a second photo book with Elin Berge, "Kungariket" in 2015, this time turning their eye towards Swedish men in Thailand.

In 2016, Frida wrote her first album in Swedish, "Kvinnor och Barn", which was acclaimed by critics and won two Grammis Awards in the categories "Lyricist" and "Composer".

The same year, she revisited the Royal Dramatic Theatre together with First Aid Kit, Annika Norlin, Loney, Dear, among others, to perform a tribute to Leonard Cohen.

She covers subjects like funerals, breastfeeding, fertility, modernity, art, war, eating disorders, travels, abusive relationships, the economics of love, becoming a parent, the creative process.