William Joseph (musician)

William Joseph is a Phoenix, Arizona native. Born in 1980, he loved music as a child. By age 8, he had won a full music scholarship provided by the Boys Club of America, enabling him to study piano with famed Russian pianist [Stella Saperstein]]. By age 17, he wrote the theme song for his hometown hockey team, The Phoenix Coyotes, and then a special anthem called "Seeds of Hope", intended to help draw attention to the victims of the Kosovo missile crisis. In his late teens he left the musical field, only to return later and release 2 independent albums, complete with a large concert schedule. In 2003, he was performing at a charity event in his hometown and bumped into David Foster, who he played for. Foster was so impressed, they immediately began collaborating, eventually writing several songs together that would appear on 2004's "Within", Joseph's major-label debut. By this time, Joseph was signed under Foster's 143 Records, a sub-label of Reprise Records and Warner Brothers Records.