Johan Rodrigues was born in Stockholm, Sweden. However, shortly after, his parents decided they would move to the small tropical Portuguese island Madeira, where Johan’s father was from. On his 15th anniversary he got an acoustic guitar as a present from his family and he discovered his love for music. He would come home from school and go through an old chord book that belonged to his grandfather and learned how to play those chords he saw on the pictures. Then he started to write his first songs.
Pretty soon he was playing in bands with friends, mostly for fun, but at the same time developing his songwriting. But some songs he wrote wouldn’t be shown to anyone – he would record them on a tape recorder and keep them for himself. He started playing other instruments like drums, bass and added them to the recording process, he also changed the tape recorder to a computer…
Later in Stockholm he met producer Björn Öqvist who was one of the first persons to listen to those “secret” songs. And that’s how That’s how “Um’ was born. As Johan says himself – it’s the start of an adventure and his interpretation of pop music.
“Um” is upbeat, inspired and sweet, the perfect soundtrack to listen when it’s sunny outside and you’re feeling happy. Or anytime you want to feel happy.
Listen to the first album on Johan’s Soundcloud. And here is my Top 3 out of his songs:
More from Johan on:
http://johan-rodrigues.tumblr.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/
http://johanrodrigues.bandcamp