Per Magnusson

Per Magnusson (born 30 May 1969) is a Swedish music producer and songwriter.

In 1993 he decided to start working with artists and founded Cheiron Productions together with Tom Talomaa.

Its studios were located at Fridhemsplan in Stockholm, soon evolving into a great success.

After playing one of their songs for PoP, Per and David were invited aboard as songwriters and producers.

His musical career took off in 1994 as one of the original team members of the now-legendary Cheiron Productions, meeting great international success working with Boyzone, Britney Spears, Westlife and the Backstreet Boys.

His first significant record appearance came in 1994 on the Swedish artist Jennifer Brown's album Giving You the Best.

Besides taking part as a musician, Per produced the song "Take a Piece of My Heart" which also was released as a single.

About that time, Per coincidentally met with David Kreuger whom worked on the DJ scene in Stockholm.

They started collaborating and have continued producing and writing songs as a team ever since.

Denniz Pop had by the early '90s become one of the most skillful and coveted DJs in the clubs of Stockholm.

Successfully working with a wide range of artists for the next couple of years, the tandem's greatest prosperity that far came in 1998, co-writing and producing the song "Will Be Yours" for Boyzone's third consecutive UK No 1 album Where We Belong.

By now Cheiron studios was one of the hottest in the world, each team member working with a different artist.

But in August 1998 Cheiron shocked the music world sending out a press release that its leader Denniz Pop had died.

He was only 35 years old.

Just a couple of months earlier, Cheiron had started working on songs for the 16-year-old Britney Spears' debut album.

Per and David produced Spear's second single "Sometimes" as well as her third, "(You Drive Me) Crazy", which they co-wrote with Max Martin and Jörgen Elofsson.

Both singles became huge worldwide hits.

The album ...Baby One More Time was released in the US in January 1999 and debuted at No 1 on the Billboard 200 where it spent six weeks straight.

Together Per and David also worked with Britney on her second album Oops!…I Did It Again, co-writing and co-producing "What U See (Is What U Get)" and producing "Girl in the Mirror".

"If I Let You Go" was released in August 1999 as Westlife's ever second single.

It went straight to No 1 becoming Per and David's first top position in the UK.

The Backstreet Boys had in 1999 broken nearly every record in the book with their album Millennium.

Shortly after Cheiron decided to shut down its studios in 2000, Per together with David Kreuger formed A Side Productions, having continued to produce and write songs for major artists such as Il Divo, Céline Dion, Josh Groban, Shayne Ward and Paul Potts.

To date the duo has co-written and / or produced six UK No. 1 singles:

The album came out in the US in May 2000 and equally as the first, it shot to No 1.

Per and David's success on the UK Singles Chart soon followed.

Westlife had approached Cheiron for material to their upcoming self-titled debut album and the duo co-wrote three songs which they also produced.

"Fool Again", which came out in March 2000 as the fifth single taken from the same album, became the duo's second in less than seven months.

By the end of that same year, Westlife issued their follow-up album Coast to Coast.

Five songs co-written and / or produced by the tandem had found their way onto the record.

"My Love" hit the UK record stores in October as the album's first single.

It entered the charts at No 1.

The close collaboration between Westlife and Per and David has continued ever since.

In 2000 the group turned to Per and David for help on their next, titled Black & Blue, which was released in November.

In April 2008 Leona Lewis became the first British female ever to open at No 1 on the Billboard 200.

Her debut album Spirit includes the song "Footprints in the Sand", co-written by Magnusson and Kreuger.

Per Magnusson was born and raised in Tyresö on the outskirts of Stockholm.

His interest in music was developed already while attending primary school, picking up the cello as his main instrument playing it for the next ten years.

Over time, his commitment in pop & rock music became more and more predominantly.

As a teenager, Per played both the guitar and keyboards in different local bands, but eventually decided to focus on producing, arranging and writing music.