BO JOHNSON

“I don’t want to dream my life, I want to live my dreams.”

Bo Johnson has been at the music business for some time, founding his own record label, BJ Music, in 2003 after a childhood spent learning on a variety of instruments ranging from the flute, piano, guitar, and synthesizer. Those lessons also led him to the world of DJing and to developing his own songs and productions, influenced by a range of influences from Dr. Dre and Armin Van Buuren to Phil Collins and Dean Martin. But a dramatic injury at the age of fifteen threatened to derail the artist’s hopes and dreams. Yet the artist persevered, disdaining the doctor’s notions that he’d never be walking again, enduring painful rehabilitation, and regained his ability to walk. He even pushed it further winning titles in bodybuilding.

It’s this same energy of combining talented hard work together with his big heart that Johnson brought to the table as the CEO of his label, channeling his talents into developing original music, which garnered comparisons to artists like Robin Schulz and Swedish House Mafia, as well as to help produce and promote other artists. Yet, as life would have it, the artist would yet again have to lay aside his musical dreams as he devoted himself to raising his two beautiful children, Oliver and Miranda.

Now, with ten years having passed, Johnson is back with a vengeance and has reasserted himself into the musical scene. With his singles “Hand in Hand” together with U.S.-based solo pianist David Nevue, top selling “When Dragons Cry”, the single EP “I’m Moving On” with Canadian singer Laura Cavacece, “Run for Life” featuring Solo, “BOOF!” featuring Stico, his new version of “Fields of Gold” on license by Sting, as well as several remixes for artists like Zedd, Selena Gomez, Kygo, X Ambassadors, Frans and Lodato, on labels like Interscope, Ultra, KIDinaKORNER and Sony, Johnson has eg. had a #1 on Billboard, a #5 on DJ Times chart, several tracks on the Swedish Dance Chart, tracks selected on some of Spotify’s biggest playlists and more during the last three years. Johnson’s tracks takes his music to the world, bridging out from the land of labels and delivering music that pulses with a passion and a soul.

“I want to make a big impact in the music world with my music, in terms of creating true songs with heart and feeling in them and new and experimental or at least top of the line sounds. I want my music to be played everywhere...I want to cross musical genre borders by collaborating with artists and producers from different genres. I want to touch the broad masses of people and be known for making quality and everlasting music.”

And at this point in his career, Bo Johnson is poised to do just that. Combining his difficult life experiences and his ability to persevere alongside his talent as an artist and a producer, the artist aims to deliver emotion each and every time, always remembering that “What we do in life, echoes in eternity.”
Bo Johnson invites you to come along and join the fight as he, much like a musical gladiator, leads listeners on a journey to places new, exciting, and unknown.

- Written by Andrew Greenhalgh