Jacques De Munck, composer and multi-instrumentalist, was born in a family of professional musicians.

He spent years in Africa where he gained experience with ethnic instruments and types of music.

After he returned to Belgium he became a professional musician and went into world music. ThatÕs how he learnt to play various instruments such as : the bouzouki, the dzourá, the baglama (Greek instruments), the lute, the African ballophone, kora and kalimba, the Caribbean steeldrums and even the Indian sitar.

He does a lot of research into the origin and use of instruments with different peoples and studies various types of music with an open mind.

He sings in different languages (Greek, African languages, English, Spanish, Creole, French, Italian and Dutch).

He inspires and leads the bands BELGRECO, MATADI and ARTO MUNDO. He composes a lot and has already released 6 CDs with Greek music. In the beginning of this year the album ÓMourmourika, rebetica ke LaikaÓ was released with personal Greek compositions in which the evolution of Greek music can be found. This CD was given a warm welcome by the Greek population.

With MATADI he released 2 CDs with predominantly personal African compositions and with ARTO MUNDO a live CD with world music.

He participated as a songwriter in the prestigious USA Songwriting Competition (32,000 entries!) in 2004 and became 3rd finalist in the category Worldmusic with a Greek song ÓMavra, griza ke tholaÓ.

In 2005 he was the WINNER of the United Kingdom Songwriting Contest with the song ÓYo Marina BananaÓ.

In the USA songwriting Competition 2005 were he at the 20 honourable indications with the number Yo Marina Banana. There were no less than 33700 entries!

In his repertoire he mainly plays personal compositions giving him a very typical own sound which he owes his success to.

Being a perfectionist he does his own recordings in his own recording studio.