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Former Lou Reed keyboardist Michael Fonfara dead at age 74 Kalamazoo, MI, USA / The Touch | Today's R & B and Old School | 95.5 FM · 1560 AM Jan 11, 2021 12:37 PM Michael Fonfara , a Canadian musician who played keyboards on nearly all of Lou Reed 's studio albums from 1974 through 1980, died Friday in a Toronto hospital after a two-year bout with cancer, according to a press statement from the Canadian band Downchild . He was 74. The first Reed album that Fonfara contributed to was 1974's Sally Can't Dance , which was Lou's highest-charting studio effort, peaking at #10...

In a lengthy, eclectic career that spanned more than 50 years, Fonfara performed with the 1960s rock bands The Electric Flag and Rhinoceros, Blackstone and Rough Trade, as well as adding "keyboard textures" on Foreigner's multi-platinum 1981  4 album on the No. 4 hit "Urgent" and the track "Girl on the Moon." Fonfara also recorded with the Everly Brothers, Grievous Angels, Cameo Blues Band and many others in a lauded career that included a 2000 Maple Blues Award honor for piano/keyboard player of the year. Fonfara's final recording was Downchild's Live at the Toronto Jazz Festival 50th anniv...

10 January 2021 Share with: Internationally renowned Canadian keyboard player, Michael Fonfara has died in a Toronto hospital on January 8, 2021, due to complications from his two-year battle with cancer. He was 74. Born in Stevensville, ON, Canada in 1946, the former Lou Reed keyboardist/bandleader appeared on nine of Reed's albums between 1974 and 2005, including his highest charting US album (#10) Sally Can't Dance on RCA, as well as Rock and Roll Heart, Street Hassle, The Bells (which Fonfara executive produced) and Growing Up In Public that was co-written and co-produced by Fonfara for C...