Alexandra Talomaa

Swedish songwriter, born September 25, 1975 in Råsunda in Stockholm county, She is a trained audio engineer with a degree from the SAE Institute. Later that year, in 1995, she started her own music studio, Maridox Studios, where she produced her own music, recorded advertising jingles and acted as sound engineer for other artists who hired themselves into the studio. In 1997 she began a collaboration with Max Martin which led to her becoming one of Cheiron Productions music producer collective in 1999. Since 2001, Alexandra Talomaa is a songwriter at Maratone Studios which was started by Max Martin and Tom Talomaa when Cheiron closed in December 2000. Among others, she has written songs for Westlife, A-Teens, Darin, Erik Grönwall, Marion Raven and Backstreet Boys.