David Foster Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Family, Wife, Children, Baby, Songs, Album And Net Worth

David Foster Biography

David Walter Foster, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger. He was born on November 1, 1949, was born in Victoria, British Columbia. His career in the music industry has spanned more than five decades, mainly beginning as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark, in the early 1970s. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations.

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10 Quick Facts About David Foster

1. Name: David Walter Foster
2. Age: 72 years
3. Birthday: November 1st
4. Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
5. Height: 5 feet 11 inches
6. Nationality: Canadian
7. Occupation: Musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger.
8. Marital Status: Married to Katherine Mcphee
9. Famous for: Produced multiple best-selling Christmas albums beginning with Once Upon a Christmas, by Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
10. Net worth: $150 million

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David Foster Age

Foster is 72 years as of 2021. He was born on November 1, 1949, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. David celebrates his birthday on November 1st every year. His birth sign is Scorpio.

David Foster Height

Foster stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches or (1.80 m).

David Foster Weight

Foster weighs 69 KG which is equivalent to 152 pounds. His hair color is gray blonde and his eye color is brown.

David Foster Education

In 1963, at the age of 13, he enrolled in the University of Washington music program

David Foster Family

Foster was born to his parents in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is the son of Maurice “Maury” Foster, an office worker, and Eleanor May Foster (née Vantreight), a homemaker.

David Foster Siblings

Foster has five sisters namely; Jeanie, Maureen, Ruth, Marylou, and Jaymes Foster, just as one sibling named Jaymes Foster-Levy.

David Foster Marriages

Foster has been married five times. His first marriage was to singer and writer B.J. Cook. Cook and Foster had one daughter together. He married his second wife, Rebecca Dyer, on October 27, 1982, and they divorced in 1986. They had three daughters.

He married his third wife, actress Linda Thompson, in 1991 and divorced in 2005. The two became a songwriting team, collaborating on several songs, including “I Have Nothing”, performed by Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard (1992), and “Grown-Up Christmas List”. Foster was stepfather to Brody and Brandon Jenner (Linda’s sons with Caitlyn Jenner), who both grew up living in his Malibu home. Both Jenner boys starred in a short-lived TV reality show called The Princes of Malibu in 2005 which also featured Foster and Thompson and was filmed in Foster’s and Thompson’s home.

Foster married his fourth wife, Dutch model Yolanda Hadid in Beverly Hills, California, on November 11, 2011. David had three stepchildren from Yolanda Foster’s previous marriage to Mohamed Hadid: Gigi (b. 1995), Bella (b. 1996), and Anwar (b. 1999). On December 1, 2015, Foster announced that after four years of marriage and nine years together, he and Yolanda had made the decision to divorce. The divorce was finalized on October 16, 2017.

David Foster and Katherine Mcphee

In June 2018, Foster became engaged to Katharine McPhee. On June 28, 2019, Foster and McPhee married at the Armenian Church of St Yeghiche, South Kensington in London. Foster’s fifth wife Katherine Mcphee is Katharine Hope McPhee Foster (born March 25, 1984).

Mcphee is an American singer-songwriter and actress. In May 2006, she was the runner-up on the fifth season of American Idol. McPhee has also established an acting career, co-starring in The House Bunny and Shark Night 3D. She played Karen Cartwright, one of the lead roles on Smash. From 2014 to 2018, she starred in CBS Scorpion as Paige Dineen.

David Foster and Katherine Mcphee Age

Davis is 72 years as of 2021 and his wife Katherine Mcphee, born on (born March 25, 1984) is 38 years as of 2022. The couple has an age-gap difference of 34 years.

David Foster and Katherine Mcphee Baby

David and McPhee gave welcomed a son, Rennie David, on February 22, 2021. On Katherine Schwarzenegger’s show, she explained about “psychological” issues with her body when pregnant with her son Rennie.

David Foster Children

David has five daughters, one son, and seven grandchildren. His first child, Allison Jones Foster (b. 1970), was born when Foster was 20. He placed her for adoption and reconnected with her when she was 30, his other daughter is Amy Skylark (b. 1973), a songwriter and author. from his second marriage, he had three daughters: Sara (b. 1981), Erin (b. 1982), and Jordan. Foster is the father-in-law of former professional tennis player Tommy Haas, who is married to Sara.

David Foster Net Worth

Foster has an estimated Net Worth of $150 million as of 2022. This includes his Assets, Money, and Income. His primary source of income is his career as a musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger. Through his various sources of income, Foster has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

David Foster Measurements and Facts

David Foster Music

Foster was a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark, discovered by Eirik Wangberg. In 1973. When the band disbanded, he remained in Los Angeles, and together with Jay Graydon, he formed the band Airplay, whose album of the same name is often labeled as important within the west coast AOR genre.

He played on George Harrison’s album Extra Texture, in 1975. He followed that up by playing the Fender Rhodes and clavinet on Harrison’s album Thirty Three & 1/3 a year later. In 1976 Foster joined Guthrie Thomas on Thomas’ 2nd Capitol Records album, “Lies and Alibis,” with Ringo Starr and a host of many other famed performers.

Foster was a major contributor to the 1979 Earth, Wind, and Fire album I Am, both as a studio player and arranger, as well as being a co-writer on six of the album’s tracks. The most noteworthy being the song “After the Love Has Gone” for which Foster, and his co-writers Jay Graydon and Bill Champlin, won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best R&B Song.

David Foster Producer

Foster worked as an album producer on albums for The Tubes: 1981’s The Completion Backward Principle, and 1983’s Outside Inside. Foster co-wrote such songs as “Talk to Ya Later”, the Top 40 hit “Don’t Want to Wait Anymore,” and the number 10 US hit “She’s a Beauty”. The 1980 Boz Scaggs album Middle Man saw Foster co-write and play keyboard on some of Scaggs’s most successful songs, including “Breakdown Dead Ahead”, “Jojo”, and “Simone”, followed by “Look What You’ve Done to Me” from Urban Cowboy.

David Foster Song Writer

Foster was a major contributor to Chicago’s career in the early and middle 1980s, having worked as the band’s producer on Chicago 16 (1982), their biggest-selling multi-platinum album Chicago 17 (1984), and Chicago 18 (1986). As was typical of his producing projects from this time period, Foster was a co writer on songs such as the US Chart No. 1 hit “Hard to Say I’m Sorry”, “Love Me Tomorrow” (US No. 22), “Stay the Night” (US No. 16), and “You’re the Inspiration” (US No. 3).

These four songs were co-written with the band’s lead vocalist Peter Cetera. Foster also helped Cetera co-write (along with Cetera’s wife Diane Nini) his US No. 1 solo hit “Glory of Love” in 1986. Foster co-wrote Kenny Loggins’s songs “Forever” (US No. 40), from the 1985 album Vox Humana, and “Heart to Heart” (US No. 15), from the 1982 album High Adventure. Foster also worked with Country singer Kenny Rogers on the hit albums What About Me? (1984) and The Heart of the Matter (1985), both issued by RCA; the latter of which featured “The Best of Me” a song was co-written by Richard Marx that was covered by Cliff Richard in 1989, resulting in the number-two UK hit.

David Foster Wallace Books

• Infinite Jest
• This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
  Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
• String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
• The Pale King
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
• Oblivion: Stories
• The Broom of the System: A Novel
• Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
• The David Foster Wallace Reader
• Girl With Curious Hair
• Both Flesh and Not: Essays
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
• Signifying Rappers
• The Last Interview Expanded with New Introduction: and Other Conversations
• McCain’s Promise
• The Last Interview:
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again:
• Everything and More:
• David Foster Wallace: This Is Water
• Unendlicher Spaß
• Oblivion
• Signifying Rappers
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
• Consider The Lobster
• The David Foster Wallace Reader
• Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All
• Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All
• Der Planet Trillaphon im Verhältnis zur Üblen Sache
• Grand Street 55
• Schrecklich amüsant
• Schrecklich amüsant – aber in Zukunft ohne mich
• Tennis, tv, trigonometria, tornado
• La scopa del Sistema
• Der große rote Sohn
• Das hier ist Wasser / This is water
• Una cosa divertente che non farò mai più
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
• Der bleiche König
• Das hier ist Wasser
• Alles ist grün
• Oblivion
• Pale King by David Foster Wallace
• Signifying Rappers by David Foster Wallace
• Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
• Infinite Jest

David Foster Songs

• After The Love Has Gone
• Because You Loved Me
• Bi-Coastal
• Earth Song
• Forever
• From The Inside
• Glory Of Love
• Hard Habit To Break
• Hard to Say I’m Sorry
• Hold Me ‘Til The Morning Comes
• I Didn’t Know My Own Strength
• I Swear
• I Will Always Love You
• I’m Alive
• In The Stone
• Jojo
• Mornin’
• Note to God
• Red-Suited Super Man
• She’s A Beauty
• Elmo’s Fire (Man In Motion)
• Stay The Night
• Talk To Ya Later
• The Prayer
• The Real Thing
• Through The Fire
• Un-Break My Heart
• Voices That Care
• Weight Of My Mistakes
• Who’s Holding Donna Now
• You’ll See
• You’re the Inspiration

Frequently Asked Questions About David Foster

Who is David Foster?  

David Walter Foster, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger. He was born on November 1, 1949, was born in Victoria, British Columbia. His career in the music industry has spanned more than five decades, mainly beginning as a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark, in the early 1970s. He has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations.

How old is David Foster?  

Foster is 72 years as of 2021. He was born on November 1, 1949, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. David celebrates.

How tall is David Foster?  

Foster stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches or (1.80 m).

Is David Foster married?

In June 2018, Foster became engaged to Katharine McPhee. On June 28, 2019, Foster and McPhee married at the Armenian Church of St Yeghiche, South Kensington in London. Foster’s fifth wife Katherine Mcphee is Katharine Hope McPhee Foster (born March 25, 1984).

How much is David Foster worth?

Foster has an estimated Net Worth of $150 million as of 2022. This includes his Assets, Money, and Income. His primary source of income is his career as a musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger. Through his various sources of income, Foster has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Where does David Foster live?

Foster and his wife  McPhee together with their newborn son, currently live in Los Angeles in the USA.

Is Foster dead or alive?

Foster is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.

Where is  Foster now?

David is still pursuing his career in the entertainment industry. He is still pursuing his career as a musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger.

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