Born in a very musical family with a composer / producer as a father and a songwriter & music manager as mother. G-lontra (Jan van Otterdijk ) started making music @ a very young age. As from the age of 5 he started taking piano and violin lessons. He sang, rapped and acted in several productions and was very close involved in the activities of his parents. As a teenager he teached himself to play the guitar and drums and started to make his own productions on the computer. After highschool he started to work fulltime @ the office & Studio’s of Piapella Music as a producer and manager for several artists. In the studio he made a lot of different genre’s of music and remixes and started spinning records as a DJ.He scores his first hit with "GIVE"The official theme song for Extrema Outdoor 2009.This track entered #1 in the single top 100, And his second number one "Fill Me Up". He works with many big artist an producers from all around the world like: Lady Gaga, kelly Rowland, Do, Boris and many more. He does performances all over Europe. After having worked as an A&R Manager for Sony G-Lontra now owns Record & Publishing company Piapella.
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