Background
Carsten Schack was born in the Aalborg suburb of Gug, the son of economics professor Bent Schack and physician assistant Åse Schack.
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Career
In the early 1990s he dated choreographer Toniah Pedersen for 3 years. Since 1993 he has been living in Los Angeles in the United States of America with his girlfriend Maxena Maxwell, with whom he has a son, Nicholas. His music career began as a DJ, when in 1989 he came joint third place in the DMC European Mixing Championships.
This gave him a DJ job at Queen Latifah"s European tour, and later a remix job for the artist.
In the years 1989–1991 Carsten Schack was co-host of the radio program The DUR (Dansk Ungdomsradio) on P3. His Monday hip-hop radio show was the first hip-hop program on Radio Denmark.
Together with Mich "Cutfather" Hansen, he formed a producer and DJ duo Soulshock & Cufather in the late 1980s, making a name by remixing for Danish artists such as Lis Sørensen ("Mine øjne de skal se"), Cut"North"Move ("Get Serious" and "Spread Love"), Laid Back ("Bakerman") and Back to Back ("Jonathan"). In 1990 they together started a record label Soulpower Productions, as part of Medley Records, where they particularly produced Yasmin and Cut"North"Move.
Foreign producing Turkish-Faroese singer Yasmin (full name Yasmin Elvira Steenholdt), he formed a producing trio under the name made up of him (under the pseudonym Soulshock), Mich Hedin Hansen (known as Cutfather) and Peter Meldgaard (known as Depete).
The trio produced "Wanna Dance" and "A Scent of Flowers" for her. In 1992, Carsten Schack immigrated to the United States. Soulshock needed a great keyboard player, and found one in Kenneth Karlin.
Together they formed the production duo Soulshock & Karlin.
Soulshock & Karlin produced and wrote their first Number. 1 top 40 hit "Leave (Get Out)" performed by JoJo, and the Number.
Throughout the 1990s he wrote and produced, inter alia, Brandy, Usher, Monica, Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross, Craig David, Sting, Toni Braxton, JoJo, and 2Pac. have more recently produced songs for the debut solo albums of Cheryl Cole, Alexandra Burke and Leona Lewis. In 1992, Schack was in youth program Transit and in a series called Exit.
In 2010, he was a judge on the Danish X Factor for the third season.
He was replaced by Cutfather for the fourth season.
