Brad Buxer
American keyboardist and composer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bradley Buxer is an American keyboardist and composer, known for his many collaborations with the American musician Michael Jackson.[1] In addition to recording with Jackson, Buxer was also the musical director for Jackson's tours for many years. Prior to that, he was a session musician for artists such as Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson and a member of the new wave band the Jetzons with Bruce Connole, Damon Doiron and drummer Steve Golladay. In the 2000s, he reunited with Connole with the Suicide Kings.
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Buxer was contracted by Jackson to write music for the 1994 video game Sonic the Hedgehog 3.[2][3] He assembled a team composed of Bobby Brooks, Darryl Ross, Geoff Grace, Doug Grigsby III, and Cirocco Jones to assist him and Jackson.[2] The theme of the game's IceCap Zone stage is an instrumental version of the then-unreleased 1981 song "Hard Times" by the Jetzons, of which Buxer was a member. Carnival Night Zone's background music incorporates elements of Jackson's 1991 song "Jam", while the game's ending theme was used as a base for Jackson's 1995 single "Stranger in Moscow".[4]
He now works as a professional airline pilot.[5]