David Foster Net Worth, Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story What is David Foster's net worth? David Foster is a Canadian musi...
David Foster Net Worth, Biography Age, Family, wiki, And Life Story
What is David Foster's net worth?
David Foster is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger with a $150 million net worth. During his work, he has helped musicians like Michael Buble, Josh Groban, Celine Dion, and others get noticed. Foster has also worked with Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli, Chicago, and Toni Braxton, who are all well-known acts. He has also worked as a producer for artists like Madonna, Air Supply, and the late Michael Jackson. He has been nominated for 47 Grammys, and 16 of them have gone to him. Over the years, he has helped sell more than 500 million albums for the acts he has worked with.
Category:
Richest Business › Producers
Net Worth:
$150 Million
Date of Birth:
Nov 1, 1949 (73 years old)
Place of Birth:
Victoria
Gender:
Male
Profession:
Record producer, songwriter, composer, TV producer, actor, musician, singer, music arranger, keyboard player, and film score composer.
Nationality:
Canada
If David hadn't gotten separated four times, his net worth would probably be much higher. His wife is the singer and actor Katharine McPhee. David has raised and donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity, mostly through the David Foster Foundation, which helps kids who are fighting for their lives because of a health problem.
Early Years
David Foster Net Worth David Walter Foster was born in the Canadian city of Victoria on November 1, 1949. Maurice (Maury) Foster, his father, was a maintenance yard manager, and Eleanor May (née Vantright), his mother, was a homemaker. When he was 13 years old, in 1963, he went to the University of Washington to study singing. Then, in 1965, he tried out for the job of band leader at a bar in Edmonton. Tommy Banks, a well-known jazz musician, ran the place. He took Foster under his wing and taught him how to make it in the music business. In Toronto, Foster played with Ronnie Hawkins and was in a band that backed up Chuck Berry. In 1974, he and his band Skylark went to Los Angeles.
Foster played the piano for the pop group Skylark. Eirik Wangberg found them, and in 1973, their song "Wildflower" was a top-ten hit. Foster stayed in Los Angeles after the band broke up and joined forces with Jay Graydon to make the band Airplay. In addition to playing his own music, he started working on different projects as a writer, director, and arranger. For example, he played and arranged in the studio for Earth, Wind, and Fire's 1979 album "I Am" and helped write six of the songs on that record. Foster wrote the song "After the Love Has Gone" with Graydon and Bill Champlin. It won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 1980.
He kept making music and writing songs through the 1980s. During this time, he worked on several records by Chicago, as well as "Forever" (1985) and "Heart to Heart" (1982) by Kenny Loggins and "What About Me?" (1984), and "The Heart of the Matter" (1985) by Kenny Rogers. He also wrote the music for the movie "St. Elmo's Fire" in 1985 and songs for "The Secret of My Success" in 1987 and "Stealing Home" in 1988. He also wrote the theme song for the 1988 Winter Olympics, which were held in Calgary, Alberta.
Foster made a deal with Warner Brothers in 1995 that let him start his own small record label, 143 Records, as a joint effort with Warner. The Irish folk-rock band The Corrs was one of the first groups that 143 Records signed. But by 1997, Foster had sold the label back to Warner and was working there as a senior vice president. In the 1990s, Foster produced songs like "The Power of the Dream," which he wrote with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and was the official song of the 1996 Summer Olympics. He also produced the Diane Warren songs "Un-Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton, "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion, and "Have You Ever?" by Brandy.
Foster put on a one-night performance called "Hitman: David Foster & Friends" in Las Vegas in 2008. Songs that he wrote or produced during his 35-year career were played at the show, with Foster at the piano in the center of the stage. Andrea Bocelli, Celine Dion, Blake Shelton, and Katharine McPhee were among the stars who helped out. Foster was named the next Chairman of Verve Music Group in 2011, but he left the label in 2016 because of a change in how the company was run. He made albums for many acts, including Bryan Adams, Andrea Bocelli, Mary J. Blige, Josh Groban, Michael Buble, and Renee Olstead. Foster is also known for producing several best-selling Christmas records, such as "These Are Special Times" by Celine Dion (1998), "Nol" by Josh Groban (2007), "Merry Christmas, Baby" by Rod Stewart (2012), and "Tis the Season" by Jordan Smith (2016). In 1998, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012, it was his Christmas record that sold the most copies. Foster and his fifth wife, Katherine McPhee, made an EP of seven Christmas songs called "Christmas Songs" in 2022.
Appearances on television
Foster has had many chances to appear on TV, mostly on music-related shows, because he is well-known as a senior music producer. In April 2006, he appeared on "American Idol" as a guest coach and on "Nashville Star" as a guest judge. He has also been on "Celebrity Duets," "Star Tomorrow," "The View," "The Oprah Winfrey Show," and "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." In 2015, 2017, and 2019, he was a judge on the talent show "Asia's Got Talent." Foster and McPhee participated as "Banana Split" in season six of "The Masked Singer" in 2021, but they were kicked off in the Group B Finale, where they were up against Jewel.
Giving money and time to good causes
Foster has been married five times, has seven grandkids, and has five biological daughters. The singer and writer B.J. Cook was his first wife. From 1982 to 1986, he was married to Rebecca Dyer. From 1991 to 2005, he was married to the actress Linda Thompson. They worked together as a musical team and wrote several songs together, including "I Have Nothing," which Whitney Houston sang in the 1992 movie "The Bodyguard." While he was married to Thompson, he was the stepfather of Brody and Brandon Jenner, Thompson's sons from a past relationship with Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce Jenner). Thompson, Foster, and two Jenners were all on the reality show "The Princess of Malibu" in 2005 for a short time.
Foster's fourth marriage was from 2011 to 2017 to the Dutch model Yolanda Hadid.
Foster got engaged to singer and actor Katharine McPhee, who is 34 years younger than him, in June 2018. In June 2019, they got married. In February 2021, they had a son named Rennie David.
Real Estate
In 2014, David and Yolanda, his fourth wife, sold their apartment in Victoria for $5 million. Then, in 2015, the couple sold their Malibu home for $19 million, even though it had been on the market for $27.5 million.
David Foster put his home in the Wilshire Corridor on the market for $3.995 million in 2020. David and Katherine bought a home in LA's Brentwood neighborhood for $7.1 million in 2021.
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