Real name: Spiros D. Markantonatos

South African songwriter, sound engineer, producer and archivist running 3rd Ear Music.

Wrote several songs for the group Four Jacks And A Jill, among them the hits "Master Jack" and "Mister Nico" which helped finance his later social endeavours and festivals. He's toured the USA as a sound engineer and mixed and designed sound for many of Africa's renowned festivals in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Botswana, Malawi and Angola as well as in Europe, all the while documenting and recording for what was to become the "Hidden Years Story" and the "3rd Ear Music Archives".