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EARLY CAREER Music was raised in Duluth, Minnesota where he attended Central High School in Duluth and later the University Of Minnesota-Duluth . There he met his wife, Henrietta, and they formed a Comedy duo ''Gerald and His Hen''. They performed successfully for 8 years. Music changed his first name to Lorenzo for spiritual reasons after he became a member of the international spiritual association Subud . 1970S SUCCESS Music got his first professional job providing various voices to the cartoon '' The Jetsons '' in 1962 . He became a writer and a regular performer on '' The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour '' during 1968 and 1969 . His work as a writer on '' The Mary Tyler Moore Show '' in 1970 would lead him to his big break. Music was the creator of '''' which won an Emmy Award . In 1976 , Lorenzo and Henrietta were given the opportunity to host a television variety show of their own. '' The Lorenzo And Henrietta Music Show '' was produced in an era with a glut of television variety shows and did not last. In 1982 , Jim Davis 's Comic Strip '' Garfield '' was the most popular strip in America . Compilation books of the strip were topping best seller lists, and Davis was negotiating to make an animated television special. Producers needed someone to voice the main character in the strip: Garfield, a lazy, oafish and demanding cat. After one audition, Music was cast as the voice of Garfield (in Davis's words, ''"I looked at the room full of (voice) actors, and then in the corner I saw Lorenzo, quietly licking himself"''). On a 1988 television special celebrating the 10th anniversary of '' Garfield '', Jim Davis remarked, apparently facetiously, that Lorenzo Music was a man ''"whose face I've never seen."'' This may have been a tongue-in-cheek joke referring to the fact that Music avoided being photographed, or possibly was in reference to Music's positioning in the voice recording studio, where only the back of his head was visible from the studio's sound engineering booth. Music's voice became an American staple: no fewer than 12 ''Garfield'' television specials were produced and the '' Garfield And Friends '' animated television series ran for seven years. Music was called upon to help write and produce the shows as well. Music became a favorite in the animation community voicing characters for shows such as '' TaleSpin '', '' The Real Ghostbusters '', '' Disney's Adventures Of The Gummi Bears '', and '' Darkwing Duck ''. In the mid-1990s, after both ''Garfield and Friends'' and ''Darkwing Duck'' went off the air, Music retired from cartoon voice over work. In 1996 , Music's voice could be heard on Stan Freberg 's ''Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume Two'' album, released as a CD by Rhino Records . Music appears on the album as James Madison and Robert E. Lee . He was also rumored to appear on the final album of the series, ''Volume Three,'' but the album has not been released, As Of 2005 . He later served as the pitchman for Ruggles Ice Cream (a local brand from Cleveland, Ohio .) DEATH AND 'AFTERLIFE' In 2001 , Music died from complications related to Lung and Bone Cancer . He is survived by his wife, Henrietta; his daughters Roz and Leilani and his sons Fernando and Sam. Daughter Roz is a prominent Hollywood make-up artist ('' Adaptation '', '' The Virgin Suicides ''). In ''. Music had voiced Peter Venkman on seasons 1-3 of the TV series '' The Real Ghostbusters '' (1986–1991), a reprise of Murray's 1984 film role. A Deadpan delivery provided a common link between the two men. (Ironically, Music had been let go from ''The Real Ghostbusters'' because of a complaint from Murray that the Peter Venkman character sounded too much like Garfield.)1 After developing the mystique of the faceless voice, Lorenzo Music made a point of not being photographed. However, an article with a photograph is listed below in the external links along with a link to an autographed photo with Garfield. However, his face was fully visible in a series of television commercials for the Speedy Auto Repair Company. TRIVIA Music's Last Name is from the Czech Language and means, roughly, "little Moses ." {Link without Title} REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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