Star Pilots

Star Pilots
Star Pilots performing at Melodifestivalen 2009
Background information
Origin	Sweden
Genres	Nu-disco, Dance-pop
Labels	Hard2Beat
Website	www.starpilots.se

Star Pilots is a Swedish pop group with Johan Becker, a contestant on Swedish television show Fame Factory and former member of the Swedish duo The Wallstones as lead singer.

The group's debut single, "In the Heat of the Night", was released in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2009, having already peaked number 2 in the group's home country in Sweden, in 2008. The song's video features the band dressed as pilots with similarities from the 1980s film Top Gun (halfnaked beach volleyball) and with five female dancers, including Playboy model Louise Glover.

The group took part in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 2009 with "Higher" written by Johan Becker with songwriters and producers Johan Fjellström and Joakim Udd. The national competition is used for selecting the Swedish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest. Although reaching the "second chance" stage in the competition, they failed to make it to the Final 11. The song was still successful commercially reaching number 6 in Sweden.

Their latest single is entitled "Heaven Can Wait" and features Petter Isaksson as main singer.

Band members are:

Earlier members included

*Did not chart in main Dutch 40 chart, but in "bubbling under" Dutch Tipparade chart

Various band members had solo charting hits

Johan Henrik Peter Becker born in Helsinki on 27 March 1971 and brought up in Närpes, Finland. He took interest in music and in his teens played the drums as part of a metal band in Finland. He moved to Sweden in 1997 aspiring to become a songwriter.

Now a Finnish-Swedish singer, in 2004, he took part in Fame Factory winning the show. He found chart success with "Let Me Love You", one of his performances in Fame Factory reaching number on the Sverigetopplistan, the official Swedish Singles Chart. Other performances during the show included "She's So High" and "Learning to Live" but without appearing in the charts. His song "As Long as We're Together" had a brief appearance in local Swedish charts.