Giorgos Limakis was born in Chania, Crete. He started studying music very early and graduated the Bach Conservatory with a classical guitar and music theory diploma under the guidance of Giorgos Kaloutsis. In 2000 he moved to London and continued his studies at Middlesex University, where he received a bachelor in 2004 and a master's degree in 2005.

He has collaborated with musicians and composers such as Stavros Xarhakos, Eleni Karaindrou, Lyn Dobson, David Lynch, Haig Yazdjian, Yiotis Kiourtsoglou, Petros Klampanis and Stavros Lantsias, as well as with remarkable singers such as Charis Alexiou, Dimitra Galani, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Nikos Portokaloglou, Elli Paspala, Marios Fragkoulis and more.

He has performed at many countries. He is a member of the Stavros Xarhakos orchestra, leads his own project Never The Same (with David Lynch and Yannis Keerimkiridis).

He is also a member of various groups, such as Traveling Light (with David Lynch and Yiorgos Kaloudis), Oceania (with Yannis Keerimkiridis and Thanos Hadzianagnostou), "Enatenisi" (of the guitarist Konstantinos Mitropoulos) and Improvisatîon a la Grecque (with Lola Yiannopoulou, Asterios Papastamatakis and Yiannis Papagiannoulis).