He was born in Los Angeles in 1961. He studied jazz with James Moody, Charles Lloyd, Ralph Bowen and John Coltrane’s associate Garvin Buschell. He started his career by playing in several clubs and studios with a variety of big swing orchestras and at a very young age he received music awards and scholarships, continuing his studies at Dick Grove Music Workshops.

At the age of 21, his need to broaden his musical and personal horizons brought him to Europe. He finally settled in Athens and started to perform and collaborate with many local artists. He was a founding member the band Iskra.
He is also a founding member of Human Touch, one of the longest standing Greek groups, that is rounded up by the pianist and drummer Stavros Lantsias and the bassist Yiotis Kiourtsoglou.
Human Touch released their homonymous debut album in 1998.

In 2003, along with Yiorgos Kaloudis, he co-founded Duo Faros, an innovative duο, which creates on-the-spot loops and spontaneous in-depth arrangements.

His debut album as a leader “Lit’l Song” was released in 1995.
In 2006 he started working on The Missing Lynch project and later he founded The Heavy Metal Brass Band, a jazz and Greek brass ensemble.

He has also written music for film, theatre, radio, television and dance. Some of the artists he has performed with Arturo Sandoval, Trilok Gurtu, Arild Anderson, Milcho Leviev, The Temptations, Barry White, Eleni Karaindrou, Elli Paspala, Alkinoos Ioannidis, Thanos Mikroutsikos and Kyriakos Sfetsas.