Johan Ramström (born 17 December 1975), is a Swedish

songwriter A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music genre and film scoring. ...

and composer. Johan Ramström was born in

Kalmar Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 41,388 inhabitants in 2020 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of ...

. He was a member of Popshop, a Swedish pop band founded in Kalmar in 1998 with members Cornelia Cassidy as lead singer, Patrik Magnusson (guitar), Micael Olofsson (drums), Jonas Hermansson (bass) and Johan Ramstrom (guitar). The band released ''How to Tango,'' collaborating with Swedish producers and songwriters

Andreas Carlsson Andreas Mikael Carlsson (; born 3 April 1973) is a Swedish music producer and pop songwriter. Biography Carlsson was part of the Cheiron Studios team until the studio was closed down in 2000. In January 2001, former Cheiron-members Andreas Carl ...

Kent (Gillström) Isaacs Kent Isaacs is a Swedish producer, mixer, musician, songwriter and music entrepreneur. He is co-owner and operator of Cosmos Music, an independent Scandinavian music label. Isaacs has been known to work with Robyn, RZA, Slick Rick, Yusuf I ...

Dan Sundquist Thord Dan Rickard Sundqvist (born September 10, 1958) is a Swedish music producer, songwriter and composer. He has produced over 70 albums and his production work has earned him seven Swedish Grammy Awards—including Producer of The Year, wh ...

, Leif Larsson,

Peter Boström Peter Boström (born 19 May 1971) is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. He is also known as Bassflow. Boström wrote his first song at the age of seven. In 1992, at the age of 21, he started Bassflow Productions, a production company near ...

and Joakim Udd. The band broke up in 2002. After the break-up of the band, Ramström continued collaborating for many years with songwriter and bandmate Patrik Magnusson and the duo came together to be known as RamPac, co-written many songs for a number of artists including RBD,

Swingfly Ricardo DaSilva II, better known by his stage name Swingfly, is an American–Swedish naturalised rapper and singer. He is also known by other aliases like Swing-Fly, Richie Pasta and Swing. He started lending his vocal talents to other artists' ...

, Teron Beal,

Agnes Carlsson Agnes Emilia Carlsson (born 6 March 1988), known Mononymous person, mononymously as Agnes, is a Swedish singer. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005, the second season of the Idol (Sweden), Swedish Idol series. She was then signed to Sony ...

Mick Mars Robert Alan Deal (born May 4, 1951), known professionally as Mick Mars, is an American musician best known as the former lead guitarist and co-founder of the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, being the oldest of the four origin ...

Crashdïet Crashdïet (often stylised as CRASHDÏET) is a Swedish sleaze rock/glam metal band formed in Stockholm in 2000. The group consists of Martin Sweet, Peter London, Michael Sweet and John Elliot. They have released six albums: 2005's '' Rest in ...

. Most notably, he has written a number of songs that competed in the Swedish

Melodifestivalen Melodifestivalen (; ) is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almo ...

competition, which is the selection process for representing Sweden in the

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster ...

. In 2002, he composed "Sail Away" in partnership with Patrik Magnusson. It was sung by Annika Ljungberg. In 2006, he wrote "La chica de la Copa" again with Patrik Magnusson and with the singer of the song for the Melodifestivalen competition Pablo Cepeda. Cepeda finished seventh that year. In 2011 Ramström co-wrote " Me and My Drum"Barometern: Lokala låtskrivare tävlar i Melodifestivalen
(in Swedish) a song sung by

that came fifth overall. The song was a collaboration between Ramström, Swingfly, Teron Beal and Patrik Magnusson.

References

External links

RamPac Official website

RamPac Facebook site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramstrom, Johan 1975 births Living people People from Kalmar Musicians from Kalmar County Swedish male songwriters Swedish record producers