Carl Johan Axel Alkenäs (born 13 May 1974) is a

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songwriter and producer. He studied at Örebro Kulturskola and has authored or produced a great number of songs worldwide many becoming charting hits. He collaborated closely with the Swedish songwriter

Joacim Persson Joacim Bo Persson (born April 17, 1971) is a Swedish songwriter, producer, music publisher, entrepreneur and one of the founders of Auddly, a venture between Niclas Molinder, Max Martin and Björn Ulvaeus ( ABBA). With Molinder, he is also par ...

and with Niclas Molinder (both of the production team known as Twin) and has co-written a number of soundtracks for Disney films.

Career

Alkenäs was involved in a number of soundtracks primarily for Disney films. He co-wrote " Rotten to the Core" for the US telefilm '' Descendants'', and the theme songs for the US TV show ''

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'' and ''

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''. He was involved in co-writing themes and songs for a number of US TV shows like ''

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'', '' A.N.T. Farm'', '' Pair of Kings'', ''

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'', the follow-up '' Lab Rats: Elite Force'' and '' Raven's Home''. He co-wrote " Gonna Get This" for the series ''

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''. The song was performed by Miley Cyrus. Alkenäs has collaborated internationally with

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in " What If", "

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", " Acting Out" and "

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", he co-wrote "

Calling All the Monsters "Calling All the Monsters" is a song performed by American pop recording artist China Anne McClain. It was produced by Twin (production team), Niclas Molinder and Twin (production team), Joacim Persson, who also co-wrote the song Johan Alkenäs, ...

" for China Anne McClain, "

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" for Bridgit Mendler, " Run, Run, Run" for the German band Tokio Hotel, "Walking Away" for Turkish/Macedonian-born singer Sibel, " Pyramid" for Charice (known now as Jake Zyrus), " On Fire" for Swiss singer

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and " What If" by Swedish singer

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, "愛投羅網" (Ài Tóu Luó Wǎng) for Taiwanese artist

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and many others. Alkenäs has also been involved in co-writing songs for

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, notably the 2017 Serbian entry " In Too Deep" by Tijana Bogićević and the 2018 Austrian entry " Nobody but You" by Cesár Sampson.

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