[1] Originally from Seattle, Spiro relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career within the music industry in his early 20s.
While in Los Angeles, he met German record producer/label owner Jack White, after which he spent several years in Germany working as a singer, songwriter, and producer (Laura Branigan, Anne Murray, Engelbert Humperdinck, Pia Zadora, Hazell Dean, David Hasselhoff).
Upon his return to Los Angeles in the mid-1980s, he began building a reputation as a successful songwriter with his first major cut on the Top Gun soundtrack and continued to write songs and produce for other artists.
[citation needed] He later recorded Care of My Soul, a solo album released in Australia, Scandinavia, and Japan.
The first single from the album is a duet called "7 Billion People"[2] which featured Julian Lennon and guitarist Tim Pierce.