Chris Beckers was born in Laren, a small village near Hilversum/Netherlands and grew up in Abcoude, at the outskirts of Amsterdam. He attended pimary school until his family moved to Germany in 1964. When he heard and saw English beatbands on radio and tv during the mid-sixtees, Chris got infected by rockmusic. His enthousiasm for this style of music was not necessarily shared by his parents. Chris' elder brother Ralph had just started an education as classical-singer and they did not see very much future in a carreer as rock-musician. Chris did not care too much about their opinion and started learning to play the guitar, formed his first bands with other young volunteers and tried to bring 'progressive music' into schoolhalls, university-clubs and bars around the industrial part of Germany, the 'Ruhrgebiet'.
After he left school Chris decided to live his life in the world of music. In 1975 Chris, (meanwhile married and young father of a little daughter) moved to the north of Germany where he joined a blues band named Backwater Bluesband. The band succesfully played the famous music-clubs in Germany and the Netherlands during the following years but broke up when Beckers' got interested in jazz-rock and fusion.
Chris started writing music and released his first album as a solo-artist in 1980 ('Blue Motions'), due to the very low budged recorded in a German film studio specialized in adult movies. Chris went on the road with a new band including Essiet Essiet (.....
