Carl Johan Axel Alkenäs (born 13 May 1974) is a Swedish 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 ^[1] 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 Jonas L.A. and Teen Beach 2. He was involved in co-writing themes and songs for a number of US TV shows like Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything, A.N.T. Farm, Pair of Kings, Lab Rats, the follow-up Lab Rats: Elite Force and Raven's Home. He co-wrote " Gonna Get This" for the series Hannah Montana. The song was performed by Miley Cyrus.

Alkenäs has collaborated internationally with Ashley Tisdale in " What If", " Crank It", " Acting Out" and " Masquerade", he co-wrote " Calling All the Monsters" for China Anne McClain, " Determinate" 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 Stefanie Heinzmann and " What If" by Swedish singer Darin, "愛投羅網" (Ài Tóu Luó Wǎng) for Taiwanese artist Show Lo and many others.

Alkenäs has also been involved in co-writing songs for Eurovision Song Contest, ^[1] notably the 2017 Serbian entry " In Too Deep" by Tijana Bogićević and the 2018 Austrian entry " Nobody but You" by Cesár Sampson. ^[2]

References

External links

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• AllMusic
• Discogs
• Johan Alkenäs at IMDb