Stavros Damianidis was born in Athens in 1974. He started being interested in music very early and decided to compose pop songs and write lyrics adn poems. While studying in the USA he began playing the saxophone as a self-taught and after his return to Greece he received saxophone lessons by Dimitri Vassilakis and piano lessons by Yiorgos Psihoyios.

In 2003 he founded Music Artisans, aiming to promote jazz talents and to organize concerts in Greece and abroad. Using the name Buoroke Mello he released his first album "Angler΄s Delight" in 2013.

He has also published a book with poetry.