Goa Gil wurde am 11 Oktober 1951 in San Francisco, California, USA geboren. Er war mit Ariane verheiratet. Er starb am 26 Oktober 2023 in California, USA.
During the early 1980s, many Goa hippies were becoming increasingly fascinated with early electronic music such as Kraftwerk. Gil and his friends soon gathered some equipment and started DJing and playing live music all night long on the Goa beaches.