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DAVID FOSTER
MUSIC COMPOSER & PRODUCER,
GRAMMY AWARD WINNER
D avid Foster asserts, “I’ve Foster’s hit songs and award-winning albums His soundtracks are the ones you include in
always fought for my artistic have had us moving, grooving and falling in your permanent collection: The Bodyguard,
vision. I don’t always win, but love since the 1970’s. Urban Cowboy, and the unforgettable
I know when an artist hires This man behind the scenes has produced, soundtrack from St. Elmo’s Fire.
me, it’s my job to push them toward greatness, written for, composed or played with our Indeed his extensive involvement in the
and to get something out of them they didn’t favorite musicians over the last 40 years. This music industry as songwriter, performer and
know was there.” includes such superstars as: Barbra Streisand, producer are just too numerous to mention.
Earth, Wind & Fire, Natalie Cole, Michael
The proof of the acuity of Foster’s musically Bolton, Seal, Chaka Khan, Kenny Rogers,
talented vision is evident in his 16 Grammy Dolly Parton, Chicago, Hall & Oates, ‘N Sync,
Awards - not to mention his net worth of 30 Boz Scaggs, and Gloria Estefan.
million dollars.
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