David Jonathan Bendeth, born June 17, 1954, in Stoke Newington, London, England, is an English record producer and former frontman of The David Bendeth Band. He played guitar with Boule Noire in Canada and recorded with Toulouse before moving to Toronto in 1977 to form The David Bendeth Band. Their 1979 single "Feel The Real" peaked at number 44 on the UK Singles Chart, and the album Adrenalin followed that same year. The band signed with Interglobal Music/Epic and later Sidewalk Records, touring with The Pointer Sisters, Gary U.S. Bonds, and The Police, releasing three records and 15 singles before Bendeth transitioned into A&R and production at CBS Records in Toronto and New York. He produced and mixed Platinum Blonde's album Contact, wrote for Chrysalis Records, and co-wrote Jeff Beck's B-side "Ecstasy" for the album Flash. From 1987 to 1995, he headed A&R at BMG Canada, signing Cowboy Junkies and Crash Test Dummies. He later served as Senior Vice President of A&R at RCA Records in New York, signing Vertical Horizon and SR-71. In 2005, he took over Whitney Houston's former studio and renamed it House of Loud, recording and mixing for Breaking Benjamin, Paramore, and All Time Low until the studio closed in 2016. On November 21, 2011, Bendeth earned a SOCAN Pop songwriting award for co-writing Hedley's "Perfect". In 2023, he taught a session on Nail the Mix and collaborated on signature plugins with Boz Digital Labs and MBSoft-Lab.
