David Walter Foster was born on November 1,1949 and is a Canadian musician, composer, arranger, record producer and music executive who chaired Verve Records from 2012 to 2016.
49 Facts About David Foster
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David Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations.
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David Foster was a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark, discovered by Eirik Wangberg.
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In 1975, David Foster played on George Harrison's album Extra Texture.
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In 1976, David Foster joined Guthrie Thomas on Thomas' second Capitol Records album, Lies and Alibis, with Ringo Starr and a host of other performers.
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David Foster worked as a producer on albums for The Tubes: 1981's The Completion Backward Principle and 1983's Outside Inside.
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David Foster was a major contributor to the career of jazz rock band Chicago in the early and middle 1980s, having worked as the band's producer on Chicago 16, Chicago 17, and Chicago 18.
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In 1986, David Foster helped Cetera co-write his US No 1 solo hit "Glory of Love".
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David Foster co-wrote Kenny Loggins's songs "Heart to Heart", from the 1982 album High Adventure, and "Forever", from the 1985 album Vox Humana.
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That year, David Foster composed the score for the film St Elmo's Fire, including the instrumental "Love Theme from St Elmo's Fire", which hit No 15 on the US pop charts.
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In 1985, David Foster co-wrote and produced "Tears Are Not Enough", which reached top 15 status.
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Foster continued turning out occasional film scores, including the Michael J Fox comedy The Secret of My Success, which featured a song co-written by Foster titled "The Price of Love", a version of which was performed by Roger Daltrey on his album Can't Wait to See the Movie, which Foster produced.
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David Foster wrote the score for the Jodie David Foster-Mark Harmon film Stealing Home.
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David Foster collaborated with then-wife Linda Thompson on the song "I Have Nothing", sung by Whitney Houston in the 1992 film The Bodyguard.
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In 1995, David Foster signed a deal with Warner Brothers for his own boutique label, 143 Records, as a joint venture with Warner.
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David Foster gave responsibility for running the label to then-manager Brian Avnet.
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David Foster produced major-label debut albums for Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Renee Olstead, and Charice, which were released under his 143 Records.
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In 2001, David Foster collaborated with Lara Fabian and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to record English-language, French-language, and bilingual versions of the Canadian national anthem, "O Canada", for a promotion of the Canadian government.
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In 2003, David Foster won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for The Concert for World Children's Day.
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In 2009, it was revealed by songwriter Diane Warren that she had worked with David Foster to produce tracks for Whitney Houston's upcoming album and the singer's comeback single would be the David Foster-produced "I Didn't Know My Own Strength".
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On May 30,2011 David Foster teamed with young singer Jackie Evancho in her Dream With Me Concert on PBS at the Ringling Brothers Museum in Sarasota Fl.
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On December 15,2011, it was confirmed that David Foster would become the Chairman of Verve Music Group.
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In 2013, Foster produced Mary J Blige's first Christmas album A Mary Christmas released October 15 of that year.
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David Foster produced Andrea Bocelli's album, Passione, released in January 2013.
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David Foster produced an album with Bryan Adams titled Tracks of My Years released in 2014.
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In early 2001, David Foster appeared in Popstars, a WB reality series aimed at coming up with the next girl group.
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In July 2006, David Foster made a brief appearance on The View as Star Jones's vocal coach.
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Also in 2006, David Foster was featured in Under the Desert Sky, Andrea Bocceli's live album and DVD of a pop concert held in Las Vegas.
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In 2007, David Foster was featured in Bocelli's Vivere Live in Tuscany, a live album and DVD of a pop concert performed at Bocelli's Teatro del Silenzio in Lajatico, Tuscany in July.
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In November 2007, David Foster appeared in The Oprah Winfrey Shows annual "Favorite Things" episode, performing with Josh Groban.
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In late 2012, David Foster appeared in an episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
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In 2015, David Foster joined the panel of judges for Asia's Got Talent.
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David Foster has produced multiple best-selling Christmas albums beginning with Once Upon a Christmas, by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton in 1984.
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David Foster produced Celine Dion's These Are Special Times, Josh Groban's Noel, Andrea Bocelli's My Christmas, Michael Buble's Christmas, Rod Stewart's Merry Christmas, Baby, Mary J Blige's A Mary Christmas, and Jordan Smith's 'Tis the Season.
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David Foster is an ardent supporter of Israel, raising money for their military at fundraisers.
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David Foster has been married five times and has five daughters, one son, and seven grandchildren.
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David Foster's first child, Allison Jones Foster was born in 1970 when Foster was 20.
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David Foster placed her for adoption and reconnected with her when she was 30.
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David Foster married his second wife, Rebecca Dyer, on October 27,1982, and they divorced in 1986.
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David Foster is the father-in-law of former professional tennis player Tommy Haas, who is married to Sara.
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David Foster married his third wife, actress Linda Thompson, in 1991 and divorced in 2005.
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David Foster was stepfather to Brody and Brandon Jenner, who both grew up living in his Malibu home.
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In 1992, David Foster was driving on the Pacific Coast Highway when his car struck actor and dancer Ben Vereen, who had just suffered a stroke while driving near his Malibu home and was stumbling on the highway.
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Vereen said afterward that he would have died if David Foster had not collided with him, and then called for emergency services.
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David Foster married his fourth wife, Dutch model Yolanda Hadid, in Beverly Hills, California on November 11,2011.
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On December 1,2015, David Foster announced that after four years of marriage and nine years together, he and Yolanda had made the decision to divorce.
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David Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards, including three Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year and has been nominated a total of 47 times.
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David Foster has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Original Song and won the 1999 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for the song "The Prayer" from the film Quest for Camelot.
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David Foster has been named BMI's "Songwriter of the Year".