"AMerican guitarist" . "Nicky Skopelitis is an American guitarist and composer from Greek heritage. He is best known as a guitarist, but also performs on banjo, oud, lute, keyboards and other instruments.Although Skopelitis has recorded few albums as a bandleader, he has appeared on many more recordings, often collaborating with prolific bass guitarist and producer Bill Laswell.Until 1987 or so, he used the spelling \"Scopelitis\" for his last name."@en . "Skopelitis, Nicky"@en .