For many years Marco worked in footwear business, designing and developing branded footwear (Disney, Warner Bros., Look, Donnay a.o.), and also ran businesses in service-sector and (Spanish) real-estate. Having lived and worked in many different places around the world he now lives in the Netherlands where he keep himself busy in the non-profit/charital/ecology sector and hobbies around the musicindustry.

He currently assists people to get their life back on track via the "Met Afval Wat Anders" project in close collaboration with KringloopZeist (Netherlands), and founded the NPO 'Friends for Friends org', an organization that brings creative artists and their friends/fans in close contact with small charity-groups around the world, in support of childrens' education and ultimately providing a healthy inheritance to children worldwide.

Marco Akamawa also composes & produces music, is authoring a novel, tries to capture private thoughts using paint, camera, computer, and through poetry on paper. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.