Tommy Coster

Tommy Coster was born in Northern California near San Francisco in a town call Burlingame. At a very young age he began his musical journey as his father was a premier musician in the San Francisco Bay Area later becoming a world renowned keyboardists.

By the age of 11 years old, Tommy had co-written his first published song with Carlos Santana, titled “Zulu”, which was included on Santana’s “Moonflower” album in 1977. At 12 he received his first gold album from this collaboration and at 19 Tommy moved to Boston to study “Jazz Composition” at Berklee College of Music.

After co-writing and producing several jazz records with his father, Tommy moved to Los Angeles in 1992 to start a new chapter in his musical career. In 1998 Coster scored his first film for Miramax, and rapper Master P, titled “I Got The Hook Up”. In 1999 Tommy started working with Dr Dre which resulted in him co-writing one of the biggest songs in the history of hip hop with Dr. Dre and Eminem, titled “The Real Slim Shady”. Tommy went on to work with several other artists resulting in the sales of over 80 Million records. Tommy is a 2X Grammy Award Winning writer with several gold and multi platinum awards as well, including 2 RIAA Diamond Awards, certifying over 10 Million copies sold of the “The Marshall Mathers LP” and “Curtian Call” in the United States alone. Only 150 projects in the history of the music business have every reached this level of achievement. Tommy has also been an active film and TV composer with more than 500 credits on IMDB.

Education

• Jazz Composition Berklee College of Music (1986 — 1987)

Companies

• Voting Member The Recording Academy (2020)
• Board Member Bob Moog Foundation (2020)
• Founder Tommy Coster Music Italia • TCMI (2019)
• Partner in Education Rainey-McCullers School of the Arts (2019)
• Board Member Ava's Heart (2019)
• Guest Lecturer NYU Stern School of Business (2017)
• Company Owner Kitty King Music Publishing (2012)
• Founder Tommy Coster Music (2010)
• Composer Universal Production Music US (2009)