Paul Shaffer

Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM is a CanadianAmerican singer, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and multiinstrumentalist who served as David Lettermans musical director, band leader and sidekick on the entire run of both Late Night with David Letterman and Late Show with David Letterman .

Shaffer was born and raised in Fort William , Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley and Bernard Shaffer, a lawyer. Shaffer was raised in a Jewish family. As a child, Shaffer took piano lessons, and in his teenage years played the organ in a band called Fabulous Fugitives with his schoolmates in Thunder Bay. Later he performed with the Flash Landing Band at different venues around Edmonton and the Interior of B.C. Educated at the University of Toronto, he began playing with jazz guitarist Tisziji Muoz, performing in bands around the bars there, where he found an interest in musicals, and completed his studies, with a B.A. degree in Sociology in 1971.

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