Giotis Damianidis was born in 1981 and grew up in Thessaloniki. Since 2006 he lives in Brussels.

He has performed in many countries playing different styles of music ranging from free jazz to Afro beat an rock.

He has collaborated with artists such as Sakis Papadimitriou, Tony Allen and Christos Yermenoglou.

He is the leader of the Quintet Punk Kong and was a co-founder of the Act up trio, Don Kapot, Tape is rolling and a sideman in bands such as Man on Fire, World Squad, Giovanni Di Domenico’s Abschattungen and Aufheben & Ruth Tafebe’s Afrosoulmessengerz.

In 2013 he founded his own label, Mr. Nakayasi.