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

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes 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 gen ...

and composer. Johan Ramström was born in

Kalmar Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 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 Patrik Magnusson, born Öland, Sweden on 17 March 1970) is a Sweden, Swedish songwriting, songwriter. Patrik Magnusson was a member of Popshop, a Swedish pop band founded in Kalmar in 1998 with members Cornelia Cassidy as lead singer, Johan Ramstr ...

(guitar), Micael Olofsson (drums), Jonas Hermansson (bass) and Johan Ramstrom (guitar). The band released ''How to Tango,'' collaborating with Swedish producers and songwriters

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, Kent (Gillström) Isaacs,

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, Leif Larsson, Peter Boström 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

and the duo came together to be known as RamPac, co-written many songs for a number of artists including RBD,

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, Mick Mars,

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

Melodifestivalen Melodifestivalen (; literally "the Melody Festival") 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 ...

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

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. 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 "Me and My Drum" is a song by American-Swede rapper Swingfly featuring Christoffer Hiding and Beatrice Stars. The song was written by Teron Beal, Patrik Magnusson, Johan Ramström and Swingfly himself. Swingfly (real name Ricardo DaSilva II), ...

"Barometern: Lokala låtskrivare tävlar i Melodifestivalen
(in Swedish) a song sung by

that came fifth overall. The song was a collaboration between Ramström, Swingfly,

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and Patrik Magnusson.

References

External links

RamPac Official websiteRamPac Facebook site
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