Terry Edward Draper, born on September 22, 1951, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was a Canadian drummer, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He first emerged in the early 1970s with the progressive rock group Klaatu, where he co-wrote the track "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft", which became a Top-40 hit for the Carpenters in 1977. After Klaatu disbanded in 1981, Draper released solo projects, beginning with the album Light Years Later (1997) and followed by Terrytoons Presents: Can You Pretend? (1999), Civil War (And Other Love Songs) (2001), and Aria 52 - A Five Year Mission (2004). His subsequent albums include Stranded (2010), When the World Was Young (2014), Lost (2020), and In the Beginning (2023). Draper died from leukemia on May 15, 2025, in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, at age 73.
