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 * Media
 * The Foundation



THE STORY OF
DAVID FOSTER




“I believe that everyone gets three rounds in their life,” says musician,
songwriter, composer, arranger, producer, and recording artist David Foster.
“For me, two are completed and I’m on to Round Three. I think you have to change
it up every round. My mantra is retreat and attack in another direction, which
I’ve done twice. Now I’m going to do it again.”

Foster’s first round was as a studio musician, arranger, and recording artist.
His second round was becoming one of the most successful songwriters and record
producers in history — shepherding albums that have collectively sold in the
hundreds of millions. This period of his four-decade career also found him
creating The David Foster Foundation and volunteering his time and talent to
over 400 charities, as well as becoming a household name as a performer
throughout Asia where he tours annually.

For his third round, Foster is gearing up to take on Broadway
with several projects. These include writing the music for a new musical
about the iconic, animated character Betty Boop, which will be directed
by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell.

As one of the most illustrious composers of our time, Foster’s skill
set of creating hits, writing indelible melodies, and building dramatic
moments, has primed him for this third round. “I think Broadway and I are a
perfect fit,” he says. “The story becomes the co-writer. It’s a new adventure
and creative outlet for me that I’ve always believed I could do and now
it’s become a reality. It’s also exciting because, as a producer, I’ve spent 35
years in a room with no windows, churning out music. Now I plan to immerse
myself in New York theater culture and learn the ropes slowly, and I’m not
afraid of that.

Foster seems constitutionally incapable of resting on his laurels, and his
relentless drive has propelled him throughout his career. Few other individuals
can claim to have their fingerprints on more major moments in all of popular
music than David Foster. He has created hit songs and award-winning gold and
platinum albums for a diverse array of artists including Barbra Streisand,
Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Andrea Bocelli, Michael
Bublé, Josh Groban, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, Diana
Krall, Natalie Cole, Michael Bolton, Seal, Chaka Khan, Kenny Rogers, Dolly
Parton, Chicago, Hall & Oates, Brandy, ’N Sync, Boz Scaggs, and Gloria Estefan.
He has escorted singers who have straddled both pop and classical styles like
Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban into the mainstream. He has created
culture-defining soundtracks for blockbuster films like The Bodyguard, Urban
Cowboy, and St. Elmo’s Fire; and crafted timeless holiday classics, including
perennial best-sellers like Josh Groban’s Noel, Michael Bublé’s Christmas,
Celine Dion’s These Are Special Times, Rod Stewart’s Merry Christmas Baby,
Andrea Bocelli’s My Christmas, and Mary J. Blige’s A Mary Christmas.

For his remarkable work, Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards, including three for
Producer of the Year, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe, and racked up three Oscar
nominations for “Best Original Song.” He has also earned a reputation as a keen
spotter of new talent, playing a key role in the discovery and career
launches of Celine Dion, Josh Groban, and Michael Bublé.

In 2008 and 2011, Foster stepped out as performer in his own right as the host
of “Foster & Friends” — two star-studded concert events in Las
Vegas that celebrate the music from Foster’s unparalleled catalog. The shows
were filmed for Great Performance on PBS and Foster’s Hit Man and The Hit Man
Returns became PBS’ highest-rated pledge drive shows of the decade. Foster
is also a household name as a performer throughout Asia where he fills arenas on
his frequent tours.

In 2015, Foster became a celebrity judge on the smash hit TV show Asia’s Got
Talent. Billed as the biggest TV show in the world, it is broadcast throughout
Asia into 20 countries and just completed his third season.  In 2019, he became
the anchor judge on World’s Got Talent in China – the first international
entertainer to hold a major TV position in China.  The show airs on Friday
nights primetime to 150 million viewers.  Foster is the Global Grand Brand
Ambassador for AirAsia.

“In Asia, audiences believe that the person who writes and produces the songs is
as important as the person who sings them,” Foster says. “So when you play a
song that you’ve written and the entire 10,000-seat arena sings every word,
that’s pretty thrilling.”

In 2018/19 Foster started touring the US with his show ‘An Intimate Evening with
David Foster’. The shows garnered rave reviews and were so successful that he
will embark on a 50 city US tour in 2020.  As a result of this success, Foster
filmed a new PBS Special – An Intimate Evening with David Foster – which aired
on PBS Great Performances November/December 2019.

An official feature documentary on his career and life debuted at the Toronto
International Film Festival (TIFF) September 2019.  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. Powerful
and sometimes humorous, the film follows Foster’s relentless ambition, hunger,
and rise to the top, as he becomes an iconic producer and songwriter.

In 2020, Foster will release a simple yet complex piano solo album, Eleven
Words.  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.

In his own words, Foster talks about his lifelong passion of the piano. “A
lifelong passion began for me as a child sitting at the piano. Never could I
have imagined that a kid’s passion of playing melodies at the piano, would lead
me to where I am today. From a very young age, I was always drawn to the piano. 
I can’t think of any other instrument that captures and touches so many
different emotions. It is the entire range of the orchestra at your fingertips.
It was so cool, fun and even therapeutic just sitting at the piano and creating
these melodies – this is me in my truest form and the piano has always been my
go-to place.  What I truly wanted to do with this album, is strip away the
lyrics and all the production that I’m known for, leaving just the melodies….”

It’s not surprising that Foster became a consummate performer. Born in Victoria,
British Columbia, he began studying piano at age four. As the story goes, his
mother was dusting the family piano, hit one of the keys, and was shocked when
David correctly called out, “That’s an E!”, thus discovering he had perfect
pitch. The son of a maintenance yard superintendent and a homemaker, Foster
has chronicled his life in the highly regarded, best-selling autobiography Hit
Man.

Foster has made charitable work his life’s other priority. Meeting with a young
girl from his hometown who was awaiting a liver transplant had a profound impact
and led him to create The David Foster Foundation in 1986. Its mission is to
provide financial support to Canadian families with children in need of
live-saving organ transplants, along with a new focus on organ donor
awareness. Four years ago, the Foundation had a mandate raise a $30 million
endowment. “We’ve moved that goalpost to $50 million and I think we’ll get there
by the end of 2017,” Foster says. He has also volunteered his time and talent to
over 400 charities over the past two decades, including the annual Muhammad Ali
Celebrity Fight Night, The Andre Agassi Foundation, and Carousel of Hope.
Tapping into his vast network of friends and superstar artists, Foster has
enabled these events to raise millions of dollars for worthy causes. “The gift
of music has brought me many rewards,” he says. “What better way to honor those
gifts than to pay it forward. It’s not just a responsibility, it’s a must.”

Foster has also been rewarded with professional honors, including being inducted
into the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2002, The Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2007,
The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010, and the Songwriters Hall Of Fame
in the U.S., also in 2010. In 2013, Foster received his star on The Hollywood
Walk of Fame. It is located on Vine Street in front of the iconic Capitol
Records building, adjacent to the stars of his musical heroes —John, Paul,
George and Ringo — a thrill for the self-described “biggest Beatles fan on the
planet.” The location is doubly meaningful as Capitol was the label that
signed Foster’s band Skylark in 1971. Their hit “Wildflower” became a Top 10 hit
and launched Foster on his unending road to success.

Reflecting upon receiving a star on the Walk of Fame, Foster says, “One hundred
years from now, my great-grandchildren will go, ‘Hey, there’s my great-grandpa,’
and having a star next to The Beatles … outside the building where I first got
signed … that’s perfect.”








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