david foster

 David Walter Foster OC OBC (born on November 1, 1949) is a Canadian musician composed arrangement, record producer, and music executive who served as the chairman of Verve Records from 2012 to the year 2016. From 2012 to 2016 he served as the Verve Records chair. In 1965, he was selected to be a band leader at the Edmonton nightclub owned by the jazz musician Tommy Banks. Banks taught Foster in jazz, composing records and also in the music business. After a time in the United States Foster made the decision to move to Toronto to join Ronnie Hawkins. He joined Chuck Berry's backup band in the year 1966. The band moved to Los Angeles in 1974 with Skylark and his band. In 1981, Foster was a producer for The Tubes' albums The Completion Backward Principle (1981) and Outside Inside (1983). Foster co-wrote such songs as "Talk to Ya Later", with Tubes singer Fee Waybill and Steve Lukather from Toto; the Top 40 hit "Don't Want to Wait Anymore;" as well as the number 10 US smash "She's A Beauty".