Bruce Haack was a Canadian musician and composer, and a pioneer within the realm of electronic music.
As the 1960s began, the public's interest in electronic music and synthesizers increased, and so did Haack's notoriety. Haack also found an outlet for his creativity as an accompanist for children's dance teacher Esther Nelson. Though the series included activity and story songs similar to other children's records at the time, the music moves freely between country, medieval, classical, and pop, and mixes instruments like piano, synthesizers, and banjo. He also continued to promote electronic music on television, demonstrating his homemade device encased in a suitcase on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in 1968.
Although Haack changed musical directions with the rock-influenced The Electric Lucifer, Haack continued making children's albums into the early 1980's, many of which featured science fiction versions of nursery rhymes and traditional songs.
He passed away in 1988.
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