Ray Parker

There is absolutely no connection between this "Ray Parker" and Ray Parker Jr.. Based in Toronto, Canada, Ray Parker is a prolific, award-winning composer, having written original songs for a number of live-action, animation, commercial and radio projects. He has been producing and performing with a variety of different artists over the years, including Aretha Franklin, Faith Hill, Shania Twain, Dionne Warwick, Smokey Robinson, K.D. Lang, Peggy Lee, Rita MacNeil, The Rankin Family and many others. In the 1980s he co-founded production company/studio Acrobat Music (2) with Tom Szczesniak and Jim Morgan. In 1993, he and Szczesniak founded Parker/Szczmith Music Inc. Parker composed the music of many TV series for a young public such as "Les Aventures De Tintin", the animated version of "Ace Ventura - Pet Detective", "Fraggle Rock", "The Care Bears", and "Feivel’s American Tales". In addition to that, he also composed the music of several documentary specials for Discovery Channel and the CBC.