Jeff Fisher is a SOCAN award-winning American composer, producer, arranger and musician born in

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. He is probably best known for composing the soundtrack for the original run of the YTV-

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horror anthology series, ''

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'', and has composed Proteus 2 scores for the other CINAR-produced programs including ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Fisher worked on two of

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

's most successful albums, '' I'm Your Man'', arranging and playing all the music on the hit song "

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", and its follow up, '' The Future''. He has toured extensively with international recording artists.

Career

In 1977, Fisher joined Harmonium, a French-Canadian group from Quebec which had started as a folk band, but quickly developed a progressive and symphonic sound. He played keyboards and synthesizer for two years, during which they enjoyed huge popularity. In 1984, he joined UZEB, a jazz band also based in Quebec, and toured internationally with them for two years. Fisher has collaborated with Leonard Cohen, and in 1988 worked on '' I'm Your Man'', arranging and playing all the music on two tracks, "Jazz Police" and "First We Take Manhattan", and arranging and playing keyboards on a third, " Ain't No Cure for Love". Cohen said the arrangement on "...Manhattan" - which was crucial in the development of the album - reminded him of the work of

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. He also worked on Cohen's next album, '' The Future''. Fisher has toured internationally with

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and others.

Gear

* E-mu Proteus 2 Orchestral for

and

(scored for 48 episodes)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher, Jeff Living people Canadian composers Canadian male composers Canadian keyboardists Musicians from Montreal Year of birth missing (living people)