MaDoK was born under the zodiac sign of the Ram. He grew up in “the heart of the earth”, the land of the Etruscans, in the geographic crossing of Tuscany, Lazio and Umbria, the place we now call Maremma.

On the shore of the lake of Bolsena, MaDoK’s maternal grandmother had a multi-award-winning restaurant where King Faruk of Egypt loved to eat.  The King regaled MaDoK’s family with wondrous stories, inflaming MaDoK’s great passion for Arabic culture.

His father always said that MadoK got his love for

music from his Hungarian paternal grandmother,

who loved to dance and sing in the festivities

organized by a romantic uncle, a military captain,

for the Mongol caravans of gypsy nomads and

knights from the steppes.

As an adolescent, MaDoK sang, composed and organized concerts, thanks to the acquaintance of some experts from the renowned record company RCA, in Rome.  In fact, as a child, his father accompanied him to the RCA studios, where MaDoK took singing lessons from Aldo Donati (former schola Cantorum in the former Roman RCA).  At that time he met Franco Migliacci, a famous record producer (currently president of the S.I.A.E.), who help him to create the test recordings which formed his introduction to a singing career.

It was, however, the encounter with the artist Leó Férré, with whom MaDoK met several times

and loved to spoke for hours. Those meetings were constructive and determining, giving the rebellious MaDoK, the courage to believe in his innate talent and to go ahead in more artistic directions.

Numerous family misfortunes and personal experiences led him to decide to leave Rome and the world of music in the latter half of the 80s.

A life-changing encounter with his father’s cousin, Enzo Menicucci (an important missionary in Africa for whom Pope Giovanni XXIII had great esteem) instilled in MaDoK the desire to know the world and other cultures.  He departed for Milan, where a new perspective, but in the world of fashion, opened for him.

In fact, it was in Milan that a shining career in modelling began; the door opened for him to become one of the first celebrated international fashion models in the full bloom of Italian 1980’s fashion.

He became the first man in the history of Italian advertising to pose naked, doing  so for a noble campaign for A.I.D.O. (Italian Organ Donors Association).  He was the first model to have a 7-page interview in the weekly magazine, “AmicA”, from the publisher, Rizzoli, and also he became the inspirational muse of the magazine "Max".

He was the first free-lance model in history.

On the renowned Italian channel  5 TV talk show, the "Maurizio Costanzo Show” in 1989 he discussed his unpublished autobiography.

As a result of international publicity, he left Italy and his profession without warning and at the height of his popularity, in order to study journalism in London and Paris.

Later, he left Europe for the USA, travelling between Miami and Los Angeles, where his new career, as an international photography producer and journalist, began, and then subsequently as photographer (an interview, including some his photographs, was published in N° 52, September 2004, issue of the Australian journal, "Blue Magazine").  This eloquent article declares MaDoK (Max Ercoli) as a man of great creativity and affirmation in the international publishing, photographic world.

In the role of a journalist, he wrote of his inquiries into the secrets of the Vatican, which was published in the Spanish daily paper "El Mundo" in 1999 and can be found via Google under “Max Ercoli” (his real name).

The 1990’s Miami boom years saw him as a protagonist as he launched many other photographers into the publishing world. MaDoK has met with respect and power in several international publishing houses and has had many photographic productions in the most prestigious magazines world-wide.

Infact in Miami Beach he was called "The prince of the beach".

He has been granted interviews with the Hollywood stars Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Kevin Bacon, Gloria Esteffan, Olga Guillot and Madonna, and politicians such as Kelly Castro and former U.S. President Nixon.

His former models & actors agency, "SERENDIPITY", of Atlanta, Georgia (USA) frequently encouraged him to begin an acting career, so honed his English diction at the University-College of Whittier (L.A., California).  During his 9 years in America, he also studied acting and direction, criminal psychology and computer science.

Although he played roles in two American-produced films, “The Player” and “Blackout”, he never forgot his first role, even if it was a small part, in a French/Italian production under the direction of Gabriella Rosalleva.

In 1998, he left the United States and film in order to return to Europe and his great first love ... MUSIC.

Before deciding upon a musical project, MaDoK chose to pause for a period of spiritual transition, living for three months in Korea; one month in Seoul and two months in the Buddhist temple of NACK-SAN-ZA, located over the hills, by the sea in the depths of South Korea.

On the invitation of his friend, Agustin Nuñez (director and president of a

Paraguayan acting school and secretary of the Asuncion Ministry of Culture) he recorded a CD of bolero songs including one in the Guarani language. This allowed MaDoK September, October and November of 2001 in Paraguay but, importantly, marked his return to singing ... after more than 15 years!

The way was already traced: MaDoK followed his musical preparation during his travels to Sydney, Australia; followed by his performance in Madrid, Spain, with lessons in voice, guitar and composition, in recognised music schools.

Today, MaDoK divides his time between Madrid and Nice (with frequent travels in Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt), where it is preparing to record a CD of a Mediterranean character but with innovative international breadth and sounds.  The CD is in seven languages, natural for MaDoK who speaks fluently in 6 languages, added to which is the Arabian he is learning at the Tunis Cultural Centre of Nice, in the south of France.

MaDoK’s musical career is centred on Madrid and been managed by a tandem of musicians, but so well in Bruxelles, from where the musician and friend Yves Gaetan Clement collabore with him.

Summer 2005 saw MaDoK official start participating in the Slovenian festival, Novascena, where he was among the favourites. Confirmation that his ambitious plan has succeeded will be through the recognition and esteem of the public.

His musical innovation has been the result of his many artistic careers, experiences and of his intense travels of the world.

MaDoK has more than realized his old dream, that musical affirmation, and today he wants to give it as a gift, for the soul and for the spirit.