- At 5 years old, she moved with parents to Malmö where she grew up.
- Since she often let herself be photographed in a low décolleté / neckline or a skimpy bikini, she also made a name for herself as a pin-up girl.
- In 1969 she stopped her stage career and has since devoted herself to painting and running a restaurant and a gas station by the motorway for 25 years.
- She performed at the prestigious Mikado restaurant in Tokyo during the 1964 Olympic Games.
- Since she had already started playing the saxophone at the age of 6, she decided ultimately for a career in the music business. As "the youngest European saxophonist" she toured through many countries from the North Cape to the Mediterranean Sea.
- Ingela Brander was well known during the 60's. She had a very short career until 1969 when she retired for unknown reasons.
- She took the Lower school certificate at the Malmö Technical Institutions Merkantil Engineering as the only woman among 300 men.
- She was particularly noticed by Anders Eldeman in Sveriges Radio's nostalgia program Da capo on Sunday 23 November 2014.
- Brander moved abroad early and lived in Switzerland for many years, but also lived in Charlottenlund in Denmark for five years.
- As a 6-year-old she started playing saxophone.
- She is a Swedish singer, saxophonist, actress.
- Since 1969 she has lived a secluded life in Switzerland.
- She became an expert on IBM punch cards , and later worked at Addo - a Swedish world enterprise of office machines, where she had in producing the first Swedish math machine "electronic brain Vegematic 1000" to do.
- Ingela Brander was also a composer and had particular success with her record "Sax-serenade".
- Ingela Brander starred in a number of Danish and German films in the 1960s. She often featured in the daily and weekly press.
- She had a permanent base in Malmö, but toured all over Europe and recorded several records and appeared in radio programs and in Swedish, German and Danish TV.
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