Famous and a huge name, singer Ricky Nelson had five children. His twin sons, Matthew and Gunnar had careers in the music industry, where their father was successful in it. The brothers had created their band, Nelson, and they received fame in the 90s, with the help of MTV.
In 2023, the twin brothers had shared a video on their social media account, where they stated, “Nelson 101. How to play Love & Affection…the right way!”
The twins had played their songs in the video they shared, as they were at the age of 55 now, and their voice started to sound like their father’s voice. Their fans had praised them.
“Aged well. Still a great riff.” One of their fans stated, and another one commented, “To this day, I’m still stunned at how much they look like their dad.”
A third fan added, “Your voices sound just like your dad’s.” And the other one shared, “Still as handsome as ever! Love their music,” and the next fan said, “Very good! Apples don’t fall too far from the tree.”
Matthew is married with Kari Ahlstrom. They received their child on the 29th of August, 2014. In 2019, Matthew had shared a picture of his family where they were wearing their halloween costumes.
“Happy Halloween from Matthew, Kari, and Ozzie ‘HotWheels’ day, Nelson,” Matthew had captioned the post he shared. And on the January of 2022, Matthew shared a picture with his son, Ozzie, and captioned, “It’s a Snow Day in Franklin, TN!”
The other twin, Gunnar is living with his wife, Lila Nelson, in Nashville, Tennessee. Lila has three children from her previous relationship. As Gunnar didn’t adopted her children, they are living with them, and he helps Lisa with her children.
In the November of 2019, Gunnar had shared a picture on his social media account, and celebrated his wife’s birthday.
As the twins are still in the industry, in 2022, they had gave an interview about their “Greatest Hits (And Near Misses).”
They had made songs in the genres of, pop, experimental hard rock, country, and folk music. Their biggest hit album was the 90s, “After the Rain.”
“Everybody put us in this category of the hair-metal thing. But the fact was, none of those bands liked us,” Matthew shared.
Twins also talked about their father, and what happened after his sudden loss. As many would believe that their lives were fine, but they had struggled a lot.
After losing their father, the twinst started to their careers. As they wanted to be successful, their mother, Kristin Nelson was not supportive towards her twin sons.
Ricky married with Kristin in 1963, and they had an ugly divorce in 1982. Kristin stated that Ricky was the one to blame for their divorce, with his crowded schedule, and shared that she didn’t caused their separation.
When her twins wanted to proceed with their music careers, the mother of the twins was against their interest, and she tried to prevent it. After the twins were graduated from high school, she wrote a letter to the twins, and explained that they would not be successful in their music careers.
The Nelson twins had shared that they struggled a lot for to reach their contract. People thought that they were rich, but in truth, Ricky left them an incredible amount of debt.
As their mother paid for their college, the brothers were left with $26. They were sleeping in their cars. And they needed a contract badly. As they worked hard and convinced people, they reached to a contract with Geffen.
Matthew explained that his mother liked vodka, and shared that it was hard for himself and Gunnar to play music. Gunnar said that their mother was a narcissist. “Our mother made it very difficult for us to play music. She said we always reminded her of [Rick], and the business was horrible, and it was ‘going to take you down.'” he shared.
They always wanted to be appreciated by their mother, and say that she was wrong in her efforts to stop them from their desire. And one day, their mother asked for tickets for their show at Los Angeles’ Universal Amphitheater.
The location was special for the twins, because the location was the last place where their late father had performed. But things went sad, when they learned that their mother only wanted tickets for her housekeeper.
Later, their mother had appeared on their show with her husband, but they left the show before it was over. Then she explained that she was unimpressed with her son’s performances.
As the twins were having problems with their mother, they were also struggling with their father’s massive debt.
Matthew said, “We were like the poor kids in the rich neighborhood. Our dad died, and unfortunately, the truth was, he was over $4 million in debt and we spent years paying that back.”
As the twins were not following the Hollywood standarts of fame, they were criticizrd a lot. Unlike their relationship with their mother, the twins had an amazing relationship with their father. Ricky had supported his twins to follow their dreams.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t see his children at the top of the music chart. Ricky passed away in a plane crash, where he was going to a concert New Year’s Eve in 1985, at the age of 45.
The twin brothers were 18 that time. As they were going with their father, he stated that they should meet in Alabama, and didn’t let them in the plane. Then he called them again, and stated that they should fly to Dallas, and meet there.
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