Paul Shaffer is a Canadian-American musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer currently seen as the bandleader on The Late Show with David Letterman . Since 1990, he has been married to Cathy Vasapoli, with whom he has two children.

Shaffer began his musical career in 1972 as the musical director for the Toronto production of Godspell, which starred the likes of Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin.

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