Music was raised around Duluth, Minnesota where he attended the University of Minnesota. There he met his married woman, Henriettthe, & it formed a comedy duo Gerald and His Hen. It performed with success for Octad years.

Music changed his foremost title to Lorenzo for spiritual reasons.

Music had his 1st office job providing various voices to the cartoon The Jetsons in 1962. He became the writer & the regular performing artist on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour during 1968 and 1969. His operate as a writer on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970 would lead him to his big break.

Music was a owner of The Bob Newhart Show which went on the air in 1972 and ran for sevener years. He too co-wrote a theme song to the indicate by using Henrietta. He continued writing for the Mary Tyler Moore Indicate spin-by-product Rhoda. When casting Rhoda, a producers were wanting to find a voice-actor to play the a portion of a character that would exist as heard however never seen: Carlton the doorkeeper. Whenever it heard Music's sleepyheaded, husky voice, it offered him that role, which mass produced his voice recognizable to the worldwide television audience.

Around 1976, Lorenzo and Henriettthe were given a chance to hikers a television variety of their have. A Lorenzo & Henrietta Music Indicate was produced around an erthe by owning a surfeit of television variety & did non go.

At a prevent of Rhoda, Carlton was given his have favorite. A alive Carlton Your Doorman aired in 1980, winning that year's "Outstanding Animated Program" Emmy.

Inside 1982, Jim Davis's comic strip Garfield was the virtually all popular strip within America. Compilation books of the strip were topping right seller lists & Davis was negotiating to produce an alive television favorite. Producers required person to voice the independent character in the strip: Garfield, a sleeping, neandertal & demanding cat. When of these audition, Music wwhen cast as a voice of Garfield (within Davis's words, "I looked at the room full of (voice) actors, and then in the corner I saw Lorenzo, quietly licking himself").

Music's voice became an Western staple: there is no fewer than Dozen Garfield television specials were produced & a Garfield and Friends animated television series ran for vii years. Music was required to help write & make a shows too. Music's became the preferred in the animation community voicing characters for shows like TaleSpin, The Real Ghostbusters, ''The Gummi Bears, and Darkwing Duck. In the mid-1990s, when two Garfield & Friends & Darkwing Duck'' went off a air, Music retired from either cartoon voiceover operate.

Within 1996 Music's voice could be heard in Stan Freberg's Stan Freberg Presents the United states Volume 2 album, freed as a Video by Rhino Records. Music appears on the album when James Madison and Robert E. Lee. He was as well rumored to pop up on the final album of the series, Volume 3, however a album hwhen non been freed, as of 2005.

Around 2001, Music died from complications related to lung and bone cancer. He is survived by his married woman, Henrietta; his girl Roz & Leilani & his sons Fernando & Sam. Daughter Roz occurs as large Hollywood produce-higher creative person (Adaptation, The Virgin Suicides).

Strangely enough, inside 2004 Bill Murray connected with Lorenzo Music for the 2nd period, by voicing Garfield around Garfield: The Movie. Music experienced voiced Peter Venkman on the TV series The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1989), in the reprise of Murray's 1984 film role. The impassive delivery provided the most common hyperlink between them men.