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Julius "Eclipse" Spiegel
The late Julius Spiegel (June 10, 1984 to 2009), popularly known as Eclipse was a well known Namibian singer, record producer and songwriter who was born in the coastal town of Walvis Bay  in  Namibia. Eclipse started doing music at a tender age of 10. He started his schooling career at Van Rhyn Primary School in  Windhoek ]where he took part in dancing competitions before he realised he was more interested in making his own music. He attended high school at [[ Dawid Bezuidenhout . He made his own studio in his room when he started high school and that is where he started experimenting with music making programmes like  Fruity loops  and  Reason (software) . He made his own record label and named it MBG records (Mad Boy Genius).

Eclipse started producing music for artists like Gazza (artist), Roger,  Dee Jay , and many other more. He was vary versatile and multi talented as he made beats for rap,kwaito and r&b artists. Certain artist like Berthold and KK entrusted him with producing thier entire albums. He soon became the best producer in the country and when he was nominated for the SANLAM NBC Music Awards for best producer in 2007, he became the most sought after producer in Namibia.[].

Eclipse died in a car crash in 2009 on his way to Windhoek  from a music show in  Rundu. Another well known artist known as Roger also died in the same car crash.