| Description: | Chris Fournier has been releasing music in various rock and electronic genres since 1991. Much of this music has been under the Fonya pseudonym, but more recently he has embarked on other projects under various incarnations.
Chris grew up in Portland, Maine playing bass guitar in high school where he built up his musical skills playing in various rock bands. After graduation in 1981, he soon began making a living playing top 40 pop music as a bassist and keyboardist. This paid the bills for about five years after which Chris decided to start composing his own music. He bought a four-track cassette recorder in 1986 and began creating his own style of electronic rock.
Within the next year Chris began the task of getting an engineering education, in part to help finance his growing need for a full studio. Over the following six years he earned a degree in electronics from the Southern Maine Technical College and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maine at Orono. While in college, he continually upgraded his musical setup to the point where he controlled several keyboards, effects, drums, and a light show from his computer. His compositional skills grew considerably during this time as well. During his junior year at the University of Maine, he recorded his first Fonya CD, Wanderers of the Neverending Night, for the Kinesis (then Kinetic Discs) label. During Chris' senior year, he recorded his second work, Soul Travels, for Kinesis.
After college graduation in 1993, Chris worked in many United States locations as an electrical engineer for various microprocessor development firms and continued to release new music with Kinesis, including In Flux, Earth Shaper, and Perfect Cosmological Principle. He continued with his sixth release, Upper Level Open Space, on the Musea label in France. |