 The band was extremely popular and influential on the Texas music scene, and the members of the band have all gone on to join or form other successful bands.The roots of Canvas began in San Francisco in 1993 with singer-songwriter Joseph King and drummer Jean-Paul "JP" Labrosse, who were both members of Stanford Talisman.They decided to form a band, which they called Driftwood, and recruited bassist Bret Mohley, who Joseph knew through the local music scene, and guitarist Ben Rada who Joseph had met by chance at a coffee shop.