Γιάννης Στεργίου

John ''Chief'' Stergiou, freelance music producer, composer, session guitarist, and sound engineer. Born in Athens on the 18th of January, 1978. Based in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in a family with a long tradition in music and he started playing music at a very early stage of his life. He took his first classical guitar lessons and music theory when he was 8 years old. Besides classical music he played various music styles but his love has always been the Pentatonic music which, according to him, finds its origin in the ancient music scale of Epirus in Greece. Epirus is also the place of John's parentage. By the age of 18 he studied Sound Engineering and Music Production at 'Mixing Is Art' with some of the best exponents in Greece as far as Acoustics and Music Production is concerned. (Akis Golfidis, Bobby Tzakis, Kostas Kalimeris, Charalambos Spiridis, Dimitris Mourtzopoulos, Nikos Espialidis, Giorgos Andreou, Panagiotis Petronikolos, etc). Automatically he got into music production, recording with artists, some times as a session guitarist and conductor, other times as a sound engineer. Since 1998 and to this day he also produced and worked with many rock & metal bands of the underground scene such as Nightstalker (2), The Last Drive, Deus Ex Machina (5), The Earthbound, 1000mods, Blend, Van Ripper to name a few. His story so far... • 09/1996-04/2000 Ria Music (Record Label) Athens, Greece: In-House Producer, Sound Engineer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer, Composer, Arranger, Session Musician. • 02/2000-08/2006 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. • 06/2005-05/2010 Reaction Studio, Athens, Greece: CEO,Arranger, Sound Engineer, Producer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer. • 06/2005-05/2010 Reaction Studies (Sound Engineering & Music Production College), Athens, Greece CEO: Instructor. • 10/2012-04/2015 Cornerstone Sound Studios, (Athens - Berlin): Sound Engineer, Sound Designer, Producer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer. • 2016-2019 Dada Studios (2) London, UK: Sound Engineer, Sound Designer, Producer, Mixing & Mastering Engineer. • 09/2019-present Oper Leipzig: Professional Musician.