Johans father is an electrician, his mother a teacher. My sister hated me for it, she thought I was a nuisance. I don’t wanna brag, but you can hear that I could pick out the drum parts to the songs even at that age. Mors lilla olle (traditional swedish song), that type of songs. There are movie clips of m when I am two or three when I’m in the kitchen playing with ladles and source pans. His dad then bought him another one - Johan drummed that one to pieces as well. His interest for drumming was so big that his father gave him a toy drum kit early on. Then I sat there drumming along when the band orchestra marched by. I think I was two when I got my own drum in the stroller. I loved the Karlshamn band orchestra when I was a kid, I never wanted to miss one saturday, Johan says. Very few swedes know his name or what he looks like - the only two interviews he has ever given were for industry magazines but he has had eight (!) number ones on the american Billboard. Johan “Shellback” Schuster turned 30 this februrary. It is here, in the row of marching drummers in Karlshamn, that the story of the second most successful pop songwriter in the world begins. Their snare drums resonate over the rooftops, through the cobblestones and into peoples souls. With their drums hanging by their hips they are the loudest and most visible. In the world of music, drummers usually keep in the background but in the band orchestra they are the stars. Men and women marching through the center of Karlshamn playing clarinet, tuba, saxophones, trombone, flute - all kinds of brass and woodwind instruments. The members of the band looks a little like old-fashioned police officers - white shirts, black ties and uniform caps. It is the Karlshamn band orchestra marching through the streets. Anyone can hear when it’s closing in - PAM-PA-PADAM. During the summer months, every saturday at 10 AM there is a tradition since the mid 1950’s. Cafe’s Jan Gradvall meets up with Johan “Shellback” Schuster for a series of rare interviews in his home and the mythical studio. Today he has written more billboard #1s than ABBA and Rosette combined. He was a teenage hard rocker in Blekinge when a certain Max Martin discovered his talent.
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