John Stergiou was born in Athens, Greece on January 18, 1978.
He grew up in a family (Στεργίου & Φάκος) with a long music tradition and started playing music at a very early stage of his life. He took his first lessons in classical guitar and music theory when he was 10 years old. He continued his studies in classical guitar and music theory at the Music Conservatory of the Northern Suburbs in Athens with Leonidas Kanaris and Tasos Tsivikis as his music instructors.
At the age of 18, he studied Sound Engineering and Music Production at "Mixing Is Art" with some of the best instructors and professionals in Greece in the field of Acoustics and Music Production. Bobby Tzakis, Akis Golfidis, Costas Kallimeris, Charalambos Spyridis, Dimitris Mourtzopoulos, Nikos Espialidis, George Andreou, Panagiotis Petronikolos to name a few.
He entered the music production, as a musician, arranger and sound engineer.
He has worked for more than 350 studio or live albums until today as a musician, composer, arranger, sound engineer & mastering engineer.
His collaborations include: Composers: Nikos Mamangakis, Mikis Theodorakis, Stavros Xarchakos, Giannis Markopoulos, Giannis Spanos, Marios Tokas, Mimis Plessas, Dimitris Papapostolou, Nikos Antipas, Antonis Vardis, Lakis Papadopoulos, Giannis Zouganelis, and many others.
Singers & Bands: Vicky Moscholiou, Maria Farantouri,
Arleta, Savina Giannatou, Eleni Dimou, Melina Kana, Kaiti Grey, Eleni Vitali, Sofia Papazoglou, Lizeta Kallimeri, Fotini Dara, Eleonora Zouganeli, Agathonas, Dimitris Kontogiannis, Nikos Dimitratos, Locomondo, Kitrina podilata, Nikos Ziogalas, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Foivos Delivorias and many others.
Musicians: Petros Loukas Chalkias, Achilleas Chalkias, Christos Zotos, Alexandros Arkadopoulos, Nikos Filippidis, Dimitris Livanos, Andreas Papas and many others.
From 1996 until today he has collaborated with many Rock & Metal bands of the underground scene such as Nightstalker, 1000mods, Last Drive, Deus ex Machina, Earthbound, Electric Litany, to name a few.
Best moments:
• "Epirus of Pentatonia" is a magnificent production of 4 CDs, 1 CD-ROM and a book of 600 pages. It is all about how Pentatonic music traveled through the centuries from ancient Epirus to the whole world. He worked as a member of the production team composing, arranging, recording.
• Among hundreds of performances, one of the most important was the concert of the "Experimental Choir of Dimitris Papapostolou" as a classical guitar soloist at the Kennedy Center in Washington. They were the first Greek musicians to play in this historic Center for the Performing Arts in the United States.
• Garry Christian of the legendary band "Christian" honoured John singing some of his compositions, as well as a remake of the legendary song "Words".
The story so far ...
• 1996-2000 RIA MUSIC (record company) Athens, Greece. Producer, Sound Engineer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer, Composer, Arranger, Session Musician.
• 2000-2006 Nikos Mamangkakis Studio & IDEA (Record Label) Athens, Greece. Session Musician, Sound Engineer, Sound designer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer.
• 2003-2010 X-art.ici Music (Record Label) Athens, Greece CEO, Composer, Arranger, Producer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer.
• 2005-2010 Reaction Studios, Athens, Greece. CEO, Arranger, Sound Engineer, Producer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer • 2005-2010 Reaction Studies (Sound Engineering & Music Production College), Athens. CEO, Instructor
• 2007- present day. Along with Tas Ioannidis and Alexandros Alexiou they start a new band called ''Phase Reverse'' . 2 new members added since 2012, Takis Mark and Kostas Kotsikas. Until today they have performed in numerous concerts throughout Europe, while they released 4 Studio albums with 3 different European labels. The last 2 albums were released by ROAR Rock of Angels Records and they are currently proud members of the Label's roster. http://www.phasereverse.band/ https://roar.gr/
• 2012-2022. Cornerstone Studios, (Athens - Berlin) Sound Engineer, Sound Designer, Producer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer.
• 2016-present day. DADA Studios London, United Kingdom Sound Engineer, Sound Designer, Producer, Mixer & Engineer.
• 2019-2021. Oper Leipzig - Musikalische Komödie,
Musician (Bouzouki) at ''Zorbas Ballet Suite'' Musikalische.
Leitung Stefan Klingele, Inszenierung und Choreographie Mirko Mahr, Bühne Frank Schmutzler, Kostüme Nikole Gerlach, Choreinstudierung Mathias Drechsler, Chor Musikalische Komödie, Ballett Musikalische Komödie, Orchester Musikalische Komödie.
• 2024-present day. He started the Rebetiko Orchestra lessons and the Rebetiko Orchestra Berlin with Kanarini Music School and he teaches in 2 groups the tradition of the Rebetiko Music in to two Groups every week at ''To Spiti'' in Belrin.