Her first record, Until Death Comes, was recorded at Stockholm's Atlantis Studios and co-produced with Jari Haapalainen of The Bear Quartet. The record was released in the EU in 2005 on The Concretes record label Licking Fingers, in the United States in 2006 on Secretly Canadian and in Australia in 2007 on Chapter Music. Hyvonen received the 2005 Stockholmspriset ("The Stockholm Prize") by the Swedish publication Nojesguiden for her debut album.[http://www.nojesguiden.se/article.asp?aID=12166] Her first single, "I Drive My Friend", climbed the hit-list in Sweden for a few weeks.
In the fall of 2005 Frida wrote music for dance performance PUDEL, by choreographer Dorte Olesen. She also performed the music live on stage. The music was recorded in 2006 and released in January 2007.
Hyvonen's next album, "Silence is Wild", was released October 29, 2008 in Scandinavia and November 4, 2008 in North America and Australia.
In 2009, Frida completed a collaboration with photographer Elin Berge, "Drottninglandet". The project consisted of a book of photos by Berge, with an accompanying CD of instrumental music composed and performed by Hyvonen.
In the fall of 2007 Frida recorded a cover of the R.E.M. song "Everybody Hurts", released in digital form by Stereogum She also covered the song "Sista dan tillsammans" together with Mattias Alkberg on "Dubbel Trubbel", a tribute to Olle Adolphson. Her cover of Judee Sill's "Jesus Was A Crossmaker", was released in September, 2009, by label American Dust, as part of "Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill". In November, 2010, she interpreted the poem "Neeijjj" on the compilation "Sonja Akesson tolkad av...".
Frida has been touring Scandinavia, Europe and the US with her piano since 2004. She also played in China, Australia, and in Bali.
In the spring of 2006 she toured the United Kingdom with Jose Gonzalez, and in the summer of 2006, she toured the US with fellow Swedish artist Jens Lekman. In 2009, Hyvonen was the first Swedish pop artist invited to play a show at Dramaten, the Royal Theatre in Stockholm.
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