Anders Gustav Nelsson was born on June 10th, 1946 of Swedish missionary parents
studying English and Mandarin in Berkeley, California, USA.

Before he was one year old, the family had moved to Changsha, in the Hunan province of
China, where Nelsson spent the first two years of his life.

The family moved to Hongkong in 1950, after a brief visit to their native Sweden.

Starting in the late 1950s, Nelsson became involved in the music industry in Hongkong,
both playing in bands and arranging performances, while still attending King George the Vth School.

By the age of 16, he had started writing songs, and worked part-time after school with a
local record company and booking agency called Orbit Records, owned and operated by
British jazz singer Gery Scott and her band-leader husband Igo Fischer.

“I did everything from running to the Cable & Wireless office to send telegrams
to delivering vinyl 45 rpm singles to local record shops,” Nelsson recalls. Nelsson
also often manned Hongkong’s first record bar which was also owned and operated by Orbit
Records, gaining a valuable insight into the retail end of the record business.

The Kontinentals, a band in which Nelsson sang, played the bass, and wrote songs,
eventually recorded two singles for Orbit Records and his career in the music business was
well on it’s way.

In 1965, Nelsson was drafted into the Swedish military and he spent that year in his
native Sweden, both performing his service to King and country and playing with various
bands.

He eventually decided to return to Hongkong and once ‘home’ again he quickly formed a new
band and recorded for the leading local label, Diamond Music. He also wrote for Hongkong
publications, including The Star newspaper and it’s sister publication Fabulous Young
Hongkong.

In 1973, he formed his most successful group, MING, and signed a three-year contract with
EMI Records.

He had promised himself to switch from performing to working behind the scenes, writing
and producing, by the age of 30 so in 1976 (after three successful albums and many hit
singles), he disbanded MING and was offered the post of A&R Manager at EMI Hongkong
Limited.

After three years, during which he signed and produced many successful acts, including
Gracie Rivera, he left to start his own music publishing and production company, The
Melody Bank, and talent agency, The Entertainment Company, with partners Perry Martin and
Terry Geary, respectively.

The Melody Bank produced a large number of jingles for advertising, film soundtracks for
Hongkong films, and songs for local artists, including George Lam, Alan Tam, Rowena Cortes
and Kenny B.

The Entertainment Company managed Hongkong popstars Rowena Cortes, Louie Castro and Ellen
Ng Ha-ping, as well as Anders Nelsson himself, and during this time he appeared in many
Hongkong films and TV dramas.

Nelsson ended up owning both the companies 100%, but in late 1989 he accepted an offer to
join BMG Pacific Limited as Managing Director. The Melody Bank’s studio operations and
publishing catalogue were sold to BMG at that time and The Entertainment Company was sold
to another Hongkong company.

After completing his three-year contract with BMG (where he ran both the record and
publishing companies), and during which he signed the multi-national label’s most
successful Cantopop artist to date, Ekin Cheng, and spearheaded the successful promotion
of Kenny G to superstar status in Asia, Nelsson left and regained control of The
Entertainment Company.

Among the first major promotions by the company, in conjunction with Australia’s Duet
Productions, were hugely successful concerts by Elton John and Kenny G.

Many successful concerts followed, but eventually fierce competition among Hongkong
promoters, combined with escalating costs, forced Nelsson to put the company into
voluntary liquidation in early 1995.

He joined The Media Bank Group (owned and operated by the well-known Hongkong family
headed by Sir John Swaine) immediately after this, and worked his way up from Managing
Director to Regional CEO. (Among his more notable achivements at this time was the signing
of Swedish band FreeBee which sold close to 250.000 units in Asia of their first album.)
He was also executive producer of the major Handover Concert “Celebrate
Hongkong” in mid-1997, when Hongkong was handed back to China

In mid-1999, after being hard hit by the Asian economic recession, The Media Bank’s
activities were suspended and Nelsson spent the rest of 1999 honing his computer skills
and studying the internet. He started his own music production, music publishing, and PR
companies in the Summer of 1999.

(Anders Nelsson Productions, Anders Nelsson Music & Anders Nelsson PR).

Through these companies he is currently acting as consultant to several high-profile
Hongkong-based companies and a multi-national record company.

He also works as producer and presenter for RTHK, Radio 3, the Hongkong-government-run
radio station.

Anders Nelsson is fluent in English, Swedish and Cantonese.

See other sections of his website (www.andersnelsson.com)
for more detailed information about Anders Nelsson’s personal and professional
achievements.