Johan Kullberg and his Rumble Band is the swedish accordion-rock band in a crossover inspired by Cajun, Zydeco, Irish which is rooted in the firm Scandinavian folk tradition.
The group consists of four 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 USA to Russia.
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.
Urban Danielsson is born 1979 in Alingsås. At an early age he
sat practising his bass and told himself: "I´m gonna learn this
instrument god damnit!". Since a couple of years he lives as a
full time musician in Stockholm. He has played in all kind of enviroments
such as the theatre to crazy After Ski-shows in the Austrian alps.
Urban
is a creature of the night and loves the city night buzz.
Magnus Halén is 49 years old, started playing the drums when he was about six years old in a brass band that his dad was a member of. During school he played in various orchestras but also began to play rock that was influenced by Deep Purple, Genesis and Queen.
At the age of twenty he made his first tour In the United States which was the start of the musical career. After that Magnus has been a professional musician. He has his musical cradle in jazz, rock and fusion.
