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Ray Manzarek

Raymond Daniel Manzarek (born Raymond Daniel Manczarek on February 12, 1939 in Chicago) was the keyboard player in the rock and roll band, The Doors, from 1965 to 1973 and again since 2001.

Manzarek also recorded a rock adaptation of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" with Philip Glass, produced Echo and the Bunnymen and Los Angeles band X, and played with Iggy Pop and backed San Francisco poet Michael McClure's poetry readings.

He is also currently directing a movie called Riders on the Storm, due to be released in 2005.

He is Polish-American.

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