Mars Lasar

When Lasar was eleven, he began to learn piano, and was trained extensively in jazz and classical. It was his mother, who was a classical artist from Germany, that ignited a love for music in him.{{Cite web|url=https://www.picsfrommars.com/about.html|title=About|website=Mars Lasar Studio – Fine Art Photography|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-13}} Lasar has been interested in technology as long as he can remember.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ascap.com/playback/2007/fall/radar/mars_lasar.aspx|website=www.ascap.com|access-date=2019-12-13 |title=Mars Lasar: Quantum Tracks |date=September 1, 2007}} Using a stopwatch, a cassette player, and a shortwave radio, he demonstrated multi-track sequencing before it was ever invented.

His mother was also partly the reason for his interest in art, and he began hanging his original oil paintings around his high school in the 80's.

When Lasar was fifteen, he received the "Young Composers Award" sponsored by the Sydney Opera House.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/lasar-mars|title=Lasar, Mars {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-12-05}} It was at this age that he discovered his interest in blending music and technology which soon led him into working and composing for the President of Fairlight Computers.{{Citation|title=Mars Lasar: Fairlight CMI feature, Countdown 1983|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DePaZ77DAt4|language=en|access-date=2019-12-05}}

He was discovered by Fairlight while being a part of a band of members who loved music, mathematics, and technology equally. As a band in the late 70's and early 80's, they used synthesizers, monophonic sequencers, drum machines, and vocals and would dress up in spacesuits when they performed.

His work with the Fairlight CMI was extensive, and he recalls, "I spent countless hours building the first sample library. I composed many compositions using my sequencing method which was sent out to the world with the machines at $80,000 a piece. I demonstrated the Fairlight to many artists and producers including Alan Parsons, Kate Bush, Duran Duran, Herbie Hancock and many others at that time."{{Cite web|url=https://www.pandora.com/artist/mars-lasar-holiday/ARxbccxbqqd4kmJ|title=Mars Lasar (Holiday)|website=Pandora|language=en|access-date=2019-12-13}}

Due to his work with Fairlight CMI, Mars attracted much attention and went on to create compositions for companies, such as Kleenex, Duracell, and Chrysler. In addition, he created compositions for television, such as Equal Justice and Baywatch, and the NFL.

His early experience scoring movies came from his project with Sounds Like Australia (1987), a wildlife movie that required him to rework the sounds of Australian wildlife into music.{{Cite web|url=https://www.realmusic.com/artists/mars-lasar|title=Mars Lasar {{!}} New Age Musician|website=www.realmusic.com|access-date=2019-12-05}}{{Cite web|url=http://shop.nfsa.gov.au/sounds-like-australia|title=Sounds Like Australia|website=NFSA Online Shop|language=en|access-date=2019-12-05}}{{Citation|title=Sounds Like Australia|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRflfzzP8i4|language=en|access-date=2019-12-05 |website=YouTube}}

In the following years, Lasar worked with Hans Zimmer on the movie, Days of Thunder, starring Tom Cruise.{{Cite web|url=https://mainlypiano.com/interviews/mars-lasar-2008-may|title=Interview with Mars Lasar, May 2008|website=mainlypiano.com|access-date=2019-12-05}} Shortly after, Lasar was asked to help with composing an album with Seal, a new artist at the time. That album earned a Grammy nomination.{{Cite web|url=https://www.apmmusic.com/blog/tags/crazy-by-seal|title=APM Music – Crazy by Seal|website=www.apmmusic.com|access-date=2019-12-05}}

Lasar released his first solo album in 1991 and now has over 30 solo albums as well as a collection of collaborative projects. Mars' music has been featured in shows such as Conviction (NBC), 24 (Fox), America's Got Talent, Extreme Makeover, The Bachelor, and others.{{Cite web|url=https://marslasar.com/about|title=Mars Lasar – About|website=marslasar.com|access-date=2019-12-13}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mars-lasar-mn0000357024/biography|title=Mars Lasar {{!}} Biography & History|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-12-13}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.apmmusic.com/artists-composers/mars-lasar|title=APM Music – Mars Lasar|website=www.apmmusic.com|language=en|access-date=2019-12-13}}

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• {{Official website|http://www.marslasar.com}}
• [http://www.sonicimages.com www.sonicimages.com]
• [https://marslasar.com/music-catalog Music catalog]

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