Born in Germany and raised in Australia, Mars Lasar is an accomplished composer, producer, and keyboardist whose work spans electronic, jazz, pop, world, ambient, and rock music. He began classical and jazz piano training at age 11, and by 14 was composing, recording, and publishing professionally.
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To date, Lasar has released more than 33 solo albums and amassed an extensive catalogue of production credits. His music has appeared across major film and television, including NBC’s Conviction, The Medium, Extreme Makeover, The Bachelor, Disney programming, Law & Order: SVU, America’s Got Talent, and Fox’s Emmy-winning series 24. His debut album Olympus was widely featured during CBS’s broadcast of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games, reaching the Top 10 on Progressive Adult Contemporary radio charts. His follow-up, The Eleventh Hour, further established his innovative approach to genre-blending and peaked in the Billboard Top 10 NAC chart.
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Lasar’s catalogue reflects his versatility: from the nature-inspired Olympic National Park and Yosemite: Valley of the Giants—both celebrated for their immersive soundscapes—to charting releases such as Karma, which reached #4 on the NAV Top 100. His work has been featured in films including Jason’s Lyric and The 6th Man, with additional television placements on Baywatch, The Young & The Restless, General Hospital, and Hard Copy. In 2021, his album Coastal Escape reached #1 on the New Age Notes Radio Chart.
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A respected figure in both music and technology, Lasar has been profiled in The LA Times, Spin, The Chicago Sun-Times, and Billboard. He has appeared on Discovery Channel’s Movie Magic for his technical innovation and has earned two platinum records—one for his sequencing work on Seal’s hit “Crazy,” and another for “Love Is Still Enough,” a song he co-wrote and produced for Savoury, featured in Jason’s Lyric. Lasar has collaborated with artists including t.A.T.u., Divinyls, Jon Stevens (INXS), Rick Dufay (Aerosmith), Steve Balsamo, Erin Williams, Xavier, Siedah Garrett, Herbie Hancock, John Sykes (Whitesnake), and Liane Foly. His work with t.A.T.u. contributed to a track that placed third in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest.
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His electronic releases—including BigBox, Vertical Velocity, and the Organized Chaos series—have achieved multiple #1 positions on MP3.com’s Industrial Electronica charts and even served in Apple’s promotion of the iBook computer. Albums such as 11.02, When Worlds Collide, Final Frontier, AfterWorld, Piano Moods from Mars II, Utopia, MultiVerse, and UltraChill continue to define his signature blend of cinematic electronics, world instrumentation, and evocative production. His long-running MindScapes meditation series, begun in 1985, remains a global favorite, with new installments released into the 2020s.
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Lasar is also an accomplished visual artist whose fine art landscape photography is featured in galleries, businesses, and private collections across the United States. His artwork and albums often share a unified aesthetic, with many covers sourced directly from his photography. His catalog can be viewed at PicsFromMars.com.
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Before relocating to Los Angeles, Lasar spent eight formative years at Fairlight Instruments, where he helped develop the groundbreaking Page R sampler/sequencer and built many of the company’s early sample libraries. His work contributed to the rise of modern digital music production, and he demonstrated Fairlight systems to leading artists and producers including Alan Parsons, Hans Zimmer, Kate Bush, Duran Duran, and Herbie Hancock. After moving to the U.S., Lasar worked closely with Seal and Hans Zimmer, contributing to the production of Seal’s “Crazy” and Zimmer’s score for Days of Thunder.
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Today, Mars Lasar continues to compose, produce, and innovate across genres, combining his deep musical training with a lifelong passion for technology to create immersive, forward-looking sound worlds.