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. G-Lontra also owns record & publishing company Piapella.