Johan Kullberg is the swedish accordion and button box player who creates his own style in the technically skilled crossover inspired by Cajun, Zydeco, Irish which is rooted firm in the Scandinavian folk tradition.
Johan & Markus are two individually skilled musicians with different backgrounds. Together they transform into a collective whole and creates fun and vivid music.
In the music that is based on Johans accordion licks, he signify that the accordion has unimagined possibilities.
At the age of three Johan started playing the diatonic accordion and has since won a lot of Nordic championship titles.
Johan has appeared in many tv and radio shows around all Scandinavia and toured countries from the U.S. to Russia and India.
Someone ones said:
"-He breakes down all the boundaries between folk music and pop to bring you the future in the traditional music!"
Markus Karlsson is 34 years old and plays the electric guitar. He has worked with Johan for almost 10 years now.
Markus has also played with several of Sweden's famous artists. His favourite styles are mainly rock pop and blues. Some guitarists who have influenced Markus is Eric Clapton, Steve Ray Vaughn, Van Halen.