After his parents bought him a small piano, Bekker taught himself to play, at first studying pianists Carmen Cavallaro, Eddy Duchin and later the sounds of the jazz greats Art Tatum, George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans for inspiration.
In late 1961, after a three-month stint in Elizabethville (now called Lubumbashi) in the Congo was cut short due to the Katanga war, Bekker decided to move to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he became a session musician.
In 1970, Bekker travelled to London, where he worked as musical director and played Piano in Galt McDermot's West End show "Isabel’s a Jezebel" at the Duchess Theatre.
After five months in London, Bekker returned to Johannesburg to become musical director for Billy Forrest's newly formed "Intercontinental Record Company" (IRC).
In 1979, Bekker traveled to London and, with producer Emil Zoghby, co-produced and played keyboards on the 1978 album Prisoners On The Line by the U.K. based folk rock group Magna Carta, and arranged and conducted pianist/bandleader Stanley Black's 1979 LP Digital Magic.
He later returned to Johannesburg to score several of motion pictures, most notably Target of an Assassin, starring two-time Academy Award winner Anthony Quinn.
In the seven years that followed, Bekker continued working as a jingle writer, and composed, recorded and performed music for local and international Television shows.
Bekker, by this time, was an established arranger, working in large studios using professional audio recording and processing equipment, but up to this point he had written music by hand.
Their first collaboration, Harmony, sold over 400,000 copies, and Bekker provided the music for 13 more gold, platinum and multi-platinum Solitudes titles before striking out on his own with 'the first album in his Kaleidoscopes series, Spring Rain with Holborne Distributing and later, Tranquility, through Quality Records.
[citation needed] His Quality years also led him into the BKS techno-dance trio partnership with DJ Chris Sheppard and Greg Kavanagh, churning out three albums – For Those About to Rave, We Salute You (featuring the Juno-nominated dance chart-topper "I’m in Love with You"), Dreamcatcher and Astroplane,[6] which contained the Juno-winning 1997 Best Dance Recording track "Astroplane (City of Love mix)".
Between 1993 and 1996 Bekker added four more albums to his Kaleidoscopes series (Summer Breeze, Autumn Magic, Winter Reflections and Christmas Spirit).
A compilation entitled Spectrum - An Anthology of Relaxing Instrumental Music, featuring fourteen tracks from eleven different albums was released in August 2011.