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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 (1982), Chicago 17 (1984) — their biggest selling, multi-platinum album — and Chicago 18 (1986).
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.
- 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.
Apr 6, 2010 · 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.”
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Born David Walter Foster on Nov. 1, 1949, in Victoria, British Columbia. Foster broke out as an in-demand producer through co-writing and producing several of the band Chicago's best-selling albums in the 1980s, including 1984's Chicago 17.