Early Life
Michael Nelson was born in St. Charles, Illinois. He is half Danish, a quarter German and a quarter Irish. He lived in Geneva, Illinois, until the age of twelve, when his family moved to north-western Wisconsin. He studied theatre and music at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls, but he left before graduating and moved to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area.
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