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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. Foster's career began as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark in the early 1970s before focusing largely on composing and production.
David Foster is a Grammy-winning composer, arranger, and record producer. Find out his latest news, tour dates, albums, and media on his official site.
David Foster: “ Off The Record” is an up close and personal look at the extraordinary career of a producer, composer, and entertainer who has helped sell more than a half billion records working with some of the most successful artists of all time.
Aug 24, 2023 · Katharine McPhee reunited onstage with husband David Foster in Italy, two weeks after a death in the family abruptly canceled her performances abroad.
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- 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.
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Jul 13, 2020 · EW spoke with David Foster about his new documentary, 'David Foster: Off the Record,' some of his best known songs, and more — including his pivotal role in ensuring "I Will Always Love You...
