Keeping Music Alive: Rainbow Music Studio

By: Shane Thomas

With 1700 recording studios currently active in the United States as of 2017, many of the engineering skills that once mingled throughout the music and recording industry have begun or are have faded from mainstream America…But with the help from an Omaha based recording producer, the elements of this once vibrant past are beginning to resurface…

Having run Rainbow Studios off 64th and Center near what is now Baxter Arena since 1976, Owner and Producer Nils Erikson has gained  memories and experiences that most have only heard of… 

Produced and traveled with world famous acts such as the Jackson 5, Joan Jett, and many others, Erikson has turned his studio into a spot local artists flock to …Despite Relatively high success, Erikson has always had many other plans intended for his business…

“Every day I buy a lottery ticket, and I am hoping to use the money so to one day turn this place into a museum,” said Nils Erikson. 

With all he has experienced throughout his career and the people he has met; Erikson could never see his life going in any other direction. In seeing this, he has come to find that this business and career has become more than just a job. It has become a lifestyle.