Niels Marquardt

Niels Marquardt had a childhood under the influence of music from his father Ernst Marquardt. He was a member of public german music band "The Twens". In his childhood he learned some music instruments like clarinet, saxophone, guitar and keyboards. At the age of 12 he started his first experiences with film making. He record videos the whole time from the world around him. There were family events, skiing tours, weddings, city events and sure some gigs from the band of his father. After school ending he did take the time to made all important things as education on job, army, and study marketing and finances. After working some years as self employed finance manager he returned to his roots - making music. He combined music, webdesign and movie making for some interesting and big projects - one was the complete web presence of his hometown Soltau in northern Germany, many other big projects followed. Since 2005 he was back in music industry, he had huge projects with German idol candidates and with stage entertainment company - the biggest musical provider in Germany. In 2009 Marquardt start the new company Fun & Joy Music and Fun & Joy Redia - a record label, a publisher, a movie production company and a management agency. In 2010 he produced and published a Christmas song with his new talent Joyce Hildebrand named "Santa come to my home" written by Janusz Slusarz, USA - he produced and published also the first album of College Rock Band MADS 77 (Flashbacks of life) from southern Germany Riedlingen and the official music video for this album named "Sense of life". In 2011 he produced, filmed and edited the short film "Magic Coffee" for a short film festival on the Berlinale 2011. Also he produced, published and edited the music video "I know you want me" Songwriter Brian Steele USA. This is the first clip from his biggest project until now - the new teenie musical movie Summer of Dreams.