Nigel Frieda

Nigel Quentin Frieda (born August 1952) is a British music producer, and the owner of the 380 acres (1.5 km2) Osea Island in the estuary of the River Blackwater, Essex.

Early life

Nigel Quentin Frieda was born in August 1952, the son of Isidore Frieda, a Jewish hairdresser, salon and property owner, and an Irish Catholic mother. His elder brother is the hairdresser John Frieda.

Career

Frieda founded/launched the pop group the Sugababes. He runs London's Matrix Studio and has also produced The Rolling Stones.

Frieda is the owner of the 380 acres (1.5 km2) Osea Island in the estuary of the River Blackwater, Essex, England, which he bought in 2000 for £6 million.

Personal life

Frieda married the biographer Leonie Frieda, the daughter of Swedish aristocrats, when she was 30 (her second marriage), and they had two children, Elizabeth and Jake, both now adults. They divorced in 1997. His second wife committed suicide.