Jeff Fisher is a SOCAN award-winning Canadian 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

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'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, ''

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''. He has toured extensively with international recording artists.

Career

In September 1978, Fisher joined

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, 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 a year, 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 "Ain't No Cure for Love" is a song written by the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was first released by the American singer Jennifer Warnes on her 1987 Leonard Cohen tribute album ''Famous Blue Raincoat "Famous Blue Raincoat" is a ...

". 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, ''

''. Fisher has toured internationally with

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Diane Dufresne Diane Dufresne, (; born 30 September 1944) is a French Canadian singer and painter, and is known for singing a large repertoire of popular Quebec songs. Dufresne was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She lived in Paris from 1965 to 1967 where ...

Jean-Pierre Ferland Jean-Pierre Ferland, (; June 24, 1934 – April 27, 2024) was a Québécois singer and songwriter. He was noted for writing over 450 songs and releasing more than 30 albums. He was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2007. ...

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and others.

Gear

* E-mu Proteus 2 Orchestral for

and

(scored for 48 episodes) *

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for

* Prosonus for

References

External links

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