Career
Backlund is best known for producing the first Sunrise Avenue album On the Way to Wonderland, which is the best selling international debut from Finland. Many of the songs on the album were co-written by Backlund and the lead singer Samu Haber, including the singles Fairytale Gone Bad and Forever Yours. As a musician Jukka Backlund has worked as a bandleader and keyboardist for numerous artists since he started his professional career in the year of 1998.
In this band Backlund plays drums.
Jukka Backlund started studying classical piano at the age of 5. Later he studied jazz and musical composition in the youth department of Sibelius Academy.