B: June 7, 1949 in Montréal, Québec
Born Lewis Greenblatt to French and American parents, the boy who would become Lewis Furey first trained as a classical violinist and in the early 1960s studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. He also studied at the Juilliard School in New York City. By 1972, he was recording his own rock compositions and in 1975 he began to compose music for films and was closely associated with famed Québec director Gilles Carle. Those films include La Tête de Normande St. Onge (1975), which won a Canadian Film Award for his score, L’Ange et la femme in 1975 and Fantastica in 1980. Three years later wrote the music for the Gilles Carle movie, Maria Chapdelaine, which brought a Genie Award for his score. In 1984 he wrote the screenplay for Night Magic with Leonard Cohen and the two of them composed the somgs used in the film. Also a successful songwriter and record producer, Lewis Furey also appeared in front of the cameras often in films with his wife, Carole Laure, whom he met in 1977 when they were both working on L’Ange et la femme. We list his credits as a Composer first. Also see: The Myth of Night Magic. |
Features & TV Movies: NormandeLa Tête de Normande St-Onge (1975) Rats and Rabbits (2000) Credits as a Director: Mecano: Hijo de la Luna (VR-1991,short) Rats and Rabbits (2000) Credits as an Actor: The Forbidden Room (2015) |
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