# David Foster

> David Foster has 16 Grammys and fingerprints on half the power ballads you know by heart. If a song crested in the 80s or 90s with a key change that made you feel something, he probably built it.

*Canadian musician, record producer, songwriter*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/david-foster

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** Canada
- **Born:** 1949-11-01
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born November 1, 1949, Foster grew up in Canada and became the architect behind chart dominance across five decades. He composed and produced "After the Love Has Gone", "Hard to Say I'm Sorry", "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)", "Glory of Love", and shaped Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and "I Have Nothing". His 45 Grammy nominations span the 1970s through the 2000s, with three Academy Award nods for Best Original Song. Warner Music Group named him senior vice president in 1997; he chaired Verve Records from 2012 to 2016. In 2023 he premiered Boop! The Musical in Chicago, which opened on Broadway in 2025 and earned him a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 79.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 15.0 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 27.7 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 81.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 90.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #17
- **Total followers across platforms:** 411,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/officialdfoster (@officialdfoster)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/davidfostermusic (@davidfostermusic)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287757/ (@nm0287757)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0SgQK24WzZf2pXBXYqHJYF (@0SgQK24WzZf2pXBXYqHJYF)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.davidfoster.com/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWR6KiCz4dPebQ59cwjaKVA (@@davidfoster, 411,000 followers)

## Sources
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- [Фостер, Дэвид](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4)
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- [Devid Foster](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devid_Foster)
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- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/79751)
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