Swedish, record label owner, keyboardist and bassist, born as Eddie Roland Karlsson on December 22, 1942 in Björkvik, Södermanland, Sweden, died on February 3, 2018 in Oxelösund, Södermanland, Sweden.

He married Viveka Holmgren in 1967 and after the wedding the couple changed their surnames to Almlén. Roland Almlén was thereafter from 1972 the owner and producer of the schlager label Roldex. He also played keyboards and bass. And, as bass player, he had earlier been a band member, as his then alias Roland Lord, of Göran Fredrixon’s Orkester in the early and mid 1960s.