Marc Baril

Marc Baril
Born	Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Genres	Orchestral
Occupation(s)	Composer, musician
Instruments	Electric guitar
Years active	1993–present
Associated acts	The Spitfires
Website	http://www.marcbaril.com/

Marc Baril is a Canadian video game composer and musician. He has composed music for over 20 titles. He is best known for his compositions for the Crash Bandicoot franchise, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, The Simpsons: Road Rage, and Scarface: The World Is Yours.

Baril was born and raised in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. His first instrument was a second-hand electric guitar, bought with savings from his paper route. His first band, The Spitfires, practiced in a laundry room where the washer and dryer were part of their rhythm section. As a young adult, he traveled around the world for 5 years, and after a trip to Australia and South Asia that left him penniless, he landed in Vancouver in 1989 and followed a passion to study music. He was self-taught up until the time he obtained a diploma from the Vancouver Community College in Jazz guitar and Composition. He then pursued and received a bachelor's degree from the School of Music of the University of British Columbia in 1996.

In 1993, Baril met a sound programmer from the then-small company Radical Entertainment during a jam session with a group of people and took up the sound programmer's offer to make music for a video game. Baril was contracted to compose the music for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game Speed Racer in My Most Dangerous Adventures. The results were so satisfactory that Baril was offered a full-time job, becoming the first audio content creator hired at Radical Entertainment.

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