South African £ billionaire

South African-born Clive Calder (58), the man behind the success of Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, is Britain's only music billionaire. He made the 2005 Sunday Times music rich list with a fortune of £1.3 billion, up from £1.24 billion in 2004. Calder, known as the Howard Hughes of the music industry, launched Zomba Music in 1971 and sold it to to the German-based record conglomerate BMG in 2002. Calder became a British citizen in the 1970s. Earlier in March, the publicity-shy South African appeared on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s 500 richest people, at number 272 with $2.3 billion.