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David Walter Foster OC OBC (born November 1, 1949) is a Canadian record producer, film composer, and music executive. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. [1] [2] Foster's career began as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark in the early 1970s [3] before focusing largely on composing and production.
- He played with Chuck Berry, who was an “asshole” to him. Originally hailing from Canada, Foster relocated to London in the mid-Sixties as part of the Strangers, whom he describes as “a clean-cut, horrible dance band.”
- Even when he tried to be a rocker, Foster just wasn’t born to be one. After relocating to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, Foster landed a job as the keyboardist in a Rocky Horror Picture Showstage production, where he met L.A.
- He once tried to tell Neil Young how to sing. In 1985, Foster oversaw “Tears Are Not Enough,” Canada’s answer to “We Are the World”; the benefit single brought together Great White North pop stars old (Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, the Guess Who’s Burton Cummings) and new (Bryan Adams, Loverboy).
- Foster was the Yoko when it came to the Chicago/Peter Cetera breakup. By the time Foster was recruited to produce Chicago in the early Eighties, that once-ubiquitous band had been hitless for years.
While Foster is primarily known for writing and producing huge, chart-topping hits for megastars, David steps back to his roots, seated at the grand piano and delivers emotional and meaningful piano melodies.
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Apr 6, 2010 · David Walter Foster, OC, OBC, record producer, composer, arranger, pianist (born 1 November 1949 in Victoria, BC). David Foster is one of the most commercially successful and influential pop music producers of all time. He has been called “the real king of pop,” the “master of bombastic pop kitsch” and “the Hit Man.”.
Jul 13, 2020 · The new documentary, David Foster: Off the Record, released recently on Netflix, delves deep into each phase of his career. What begins as a standard hagiography, tracing Foster's career from...
