Lewis Furey

Lewis Furey born Lewis Greenblatt born 7 June 1949 is a Canadian composer singer violinist pianist actor and director Born in Montreal Quebec to French and American parents Furey trained as a classical violinist and at age 11 performed as a soloist in the Matinées pour la jeunesse concert series of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra From 1961 to 1965 he studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal He later studied at the Juilliard School in New York City In 1972 he began playing and recording his own rock music compositions In the ensuing years he produced three albums of pop music Lewis Furey 1975 A M 4522 The Humours of Lewis Furey 1976 A M 4594 and The Sky is Falling 1979 Aquarius AQR521 Distinguishing features of the albums were Fureys Lou Reedlike vocal stylings a number of songs with gay content particularly the local Montréal radio hit Hustlers Tango and exotic arrangements featuring unusual uses of violin and banjo as well as elements of klezmer music In 1975 he began a new venture as a composer for films His first film score for director Gilles Carles La Tête de Normande St Onge 1975 won a Canadian Film Award In 1977 he worked on the Gilles Carle film LAnge et la femme along with his future wife the actress and singer Carole Laure This project involved more than composing alone Furey and Laure are famously seen performing a sex act in the film Furey also composed for the Allan Moyle film The Rubber Gun which despite the risquésounding title was about families affected by drug use Later in the 1970s Furey and Laure produced a number of successful stage reviews in Paris Furey also served as producer and frequently also as songwriter for a series of albums by Carole Laure beginning with Alibis 1979 RCA KKL10290 a hit in Québec in 1979 In 1980 Furey wrote the music for another Gilles Carle film Fantastica which starred Laure in the lead role of Lorca Furey also acted in the film and was nominated for a Genie Award in Canada for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Furey further developed his career in film and television music with productions such as a 1983 Gilles Carle movie Maria Chapdelaine based on the classic Québecbased Louis Hémon novel of the same name His score for this film won a Genie Award In 1984 he wrote the screenplay for Night Magic with the script cowritten by Leonard Cohen Based in France since the late 1970s Furey has continued to score film and television work as well as producing and writing for successful albums by Laure such as She Says Move On 1991 and Sentiments naturels 1997 A stage production based on the latter ran for over a month in Paris in 1998 Source Article Lewis Furey from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30