At age five, Gabe Saks found an old piano in storage in a dusty unfinished room in his parents' home in Long Beach, New York, and began to develop a unique approach to the instrument. He astounded his musician relatives by composing simple tunes and playing by ear with chords before beginning his lessons at age eight. By age twelve he was performing local events, playing mainly Jewish music. In High School he started listening seriously to Progressive Rock and also Jazz, incorporating elements from both in his band-playing. 

In his college years he began to break out of the Orthodox Jewish mold, and was deeply influenced by Grunge and Psychedelic Rock, which molded his early songwriting. Still deeply religious, he traveled  to Israel in 2001, seeking inspiration. In Jerusalem, he returned to Talmudic study but gradually became disillusioned once again by its limits, and by 2006 he had thrown himself full-time into music.  

In 2007 Gabriel co-founded a band called Optimystical together with singer/songwriter/guitarist Rocky Ziegler and the band began to make serious waves in the English-speaking community in Israel. But just as their debut album was close to completion, the band's studio was burned down, creating insurmountable difficulties. Soon after, Gabe joined an energetic Rock/Electronica band called HaMakor, also known as The Solomon Brothers, headed by Nachman Solomon of the Carlebach Moshav, Mevo Modiin. Gabe played extensively throughout Israel and also in USA and Canada. Meanwhile he continued to work on his growing body of original music and slowly assembled a band which came to be called Paradox Garden.

In 2014, Gabriel returned to America, and completed his degree in Music at Rutgers University (BA, Summa Cum Laude, May 2017).

Gabriel's struggles with spirituality, desire to harmonize conflicting sides of his identity, and longing to dissolve artificial barriers between people, became thematic material for his songwriting.