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21 Facts About David Jost

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David Jost was born on August 12,1972 and is a German music producer, singer-songwriter, and DJ born in Hamburg.

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David Jost's career has a track record of 74 platinum, 108 gold records, and 14 No 1 hits.

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For Tokio Hotel, David Jost has composed, produced, and mixed six No 1 singles and three No 1 albums.

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At the age of 12, David Jost started breakdancing, DJing, and painting graffiti.

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Together with Dave Roth, David Jost produced remixes for Faith Hill, The Doors, The Corrs, Motley Crue, and Jewel.

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David Jost wrote Selena Gomez's song "Love Will Remember", which reached No 1 of the American Billboard charts in August 2013.

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David Jost wrote the song together with his production partners Rock Mafia and Gomez herself.

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David Jost continued collaborating with Rock Mafia, co-writing Gomez's song "Love Will Remember" for her 2013 release Stars Dance.

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For Chris Brown, Jost wrote and co-produced the song "Nobody's Perfect" which is featured on Brown's album X He co-wrote and co-produced the song "Summertrain" from Greyson Chance's album Hold On 'til the Night.

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Together with Neue Deutsche Welle artists Inga Humpe and Tommi Eckart, David Jost wrote and produced "Bei dir bin ich schon", which became the lead single of indie-electro band 2Raumwohnung's following album.

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David Jost co-wrote two more songs off their Achtung fertig album.

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David Jost co-wrote "Wenn du liebst" for Adel Tawil's first solo album Lieder, released in 2013.

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David Jost is credited co-writer on Marlon Roudette's song "Hearts Pull" from Roudette's 2014 album Electric Soul.

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For Keri Hilson, David Jost composed and produced the hit single "I Like", which became Hilson's first No 1 hit in Germany.

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In 2011, Jost produced a radio mix of Lady Gaga's single "Marry the Night ".

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David Jost composed, produced and mixed the hit single "Geronimo" with Aura Dione and Joacim Persson; the song reached the No 1 in the radio charts for several weeks.

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Together with Tokio Hotel's lead singer Bill Kaulitz, David Jost composed the single "Monsoon", as well as producing and mixing it.

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David Jost produced five more No 1 singles by Tokio Hotel, as well as Tokio Hotel's No 1 album Scream, and two more No 1 platinum-awarded international albums for the band.

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The song "Strange", co-written by David Jost and performed by Tokio Hotel and Kerli, was included on the album Almost Alice, a concept album of various artists' music inspired by Tim Burton's film Alice in Wonderland.

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David Jost co-wrote the song "By Your Side" which was featured on the soundtrack of the film Prom Night.

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The song "I Like", sung by Keri Hilson and co-written by David Jost, became the title song of Til Schweiger's feature film Zweiohrkuken.