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Gerald David "Lorenzo" Music May 2, — August 4, was an American actor, voice actor, writer, producer and musician. He was six years old when his family moved to Minnesota due to his father's getting a job at one of the shipyards. They performed successfully together for eight years. He changed his first name to Lorenzo for spiritual reasons after he became a member of the international spiritual association Subud.

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While casting Rhoda, the producers were looking for a voice actor to play the part of a character that would be heard but never seen: Carlton the doorman. When they heard Music's sleepy, husky voice, they offered him that role, which made his voice recognizable to a worldwide television audience. The character was popular enough to warrant a one-off single in called "Who Is It?

Music also co-produced and co-wrote a animated special Carlton Your Doorman which won an Emmy Award. In , he and Henrietta were given the opportunity to host a syndicated television variety show of their own. The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show was produced at a time when there was a glut of television variety shows, and it did not last. Compilation books and merchandising 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 fat, lazy, oafish and demanding cat.

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The audition attracted several famed vocal talents, including Sterling Holloway, the voice of Winnie the Pooh. After one audition, Music was immediately 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". Music would serve as the voice of Garfield in more than 12 television specials and in the Garfield and Friends animated television series that ran from Other voice work Music voiced characters for shows such as TaleSpin as Sgt.