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David Walter Foster, OC, OBC (born November 1, 1949), is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter, and arranger,[1] noted for discovering successful singers Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Michael Bublé and Charice Pempengco, and for producing some of the most successful artists in the world. He has worked as a producer with a wide range of musical stars, including Andrea Bocelli, Céline Dion, Mariah Carey, Charice Pempengco, Gloria Estefan, Nsync, Neil Diamond, Whitney Houston, Cher, Kenny Loggins, Prince, Chicago, Earth Wind and Fire, Chaka Khan, Barbra Streisand, Donna Summer, Kenny Rogers, Boz Scaggs, Olivia Newton-John, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Beyonce Knowles, Destiny's Child, The Bee Gees, Bryan Adams, Christina Aguilera and others. Foster was a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark discovered by Eirik Wangberg. The band's song "Wildflower" was a top ten hit in 1972. Together with Jay Graydon he formed the band Airplay, which is often labeled the most important album within the Westcoast AOR genre. He produced debut albums for The Corrs,[2] Michael Bublé,[3] Renee Olstead and Josh Groban, which were released under his own record label, 143 Records, and distributed through Warner Music. Foster helped launch Kevin Sharp's career after the two met through the Make-A-Wish Foundation and he produced David Hayes singing a song by composed by Ed Scheid and Laramy Smith title "Friend". In 1985, Rolling Stone magazine named Foster the "master of ... bombastic pop kitsch."[4] That year, Foster composed the score for the film St. Elmo's Fire,[5] including "Love Theme from St. Elmo's Fire" which hit #15 in US pop charts (with a remake of a song titled "For just a moment" with vocals by Amy Holland and Donny Gerrard). Another song from the film, "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)", recorded by John Parr hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 7, 1985. The following years, Foster continued turning out occasional film scores, including the Michael J. Fox comedy The Secret of My Success and the Jodie Foster-Mark Harmon drama Stealing Home, both of which spawned soundtrack albums with prominent Foster-penned contributions. He collaborated with then-wife Linda Thompson on the song "I Have Nothing", sung by Whitney Houston in the 1992 film The Bodyguard. The couple were nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award for Best Song for the song. He produced Japanese singer Seiko Matsuda's 1988 album "Citron", also arranging and co-writing all the songs on the album, including the number one single "Marrakech". In 1995 Foster signed a deal with Warner Brothers that enabled him to set up his own boutique label, 143 Records, as a joint venture with Warner.[6] Foster gave the responsibility for running the label to then manager Brian Avnet.[6] One of the label's first signing was little known Irish folk-rock band The Corrs, for whom he produced their debut album.[6] By 1997 Foster had come to the realisation that, in the American market at least, "logo labels" like 143 were in a "bad spot" and as a result Foster sold the label back to Warner and became senior vice-president at the corporation. Foster, along with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, composed "The Power of the Dream" as the official song of the 1996 Summer Olympics, with Thompson providing the lyrics (sung by Céline Dion). He also composed "Winter Games", the theme song for 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. "Winter Games" is the soundtrack for a fountain show at the Bellagio resort in Las Vegas as well as a fountain show at Sea World Orlando. Also in 2001, he collaborated with Lara Fabian and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to record the Canadian national anthem, "O Canada", for an English version, a French version, and a bilingual (French/English) version, for a promotion of the Government of Canada. In 2003, Foster won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for The Concert for World Children's Day. His song "I Will Be There With You" (sung with Katharine McPhee) is being used by Japan Airlines to promote the introduction of new aircraft to its US flights.

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[Mark2074Leo]

wow....never heard this solo version. Puts a new feel on an old song. Thanks!

[lazyrhain]

sa twing napapakinggan ku e2ng song naiiyak aku...grabe gnda neto...

[MonsterlyInLoveII]

one of the best song ever written by D. Foster... i love the duet rendition with ONJ too... wala talagang kupas ur the man lufet sa mga images inspiring! fafa hatt naks!

-=MonZ=-

[Rholex29]

Super love this song love the melody ,lyrics etc hehe basta super lovesong e2 sa akin !!another great post Bro :-)

[eshmeeh]

gat..nagmamadali lng ako..hehe

maya nku mag comment sa iba..weeeeh

love this song gat..to hte highest level..

at like ko rn video mo..hehhe

ASTIG.keep it up..

[MsBertday]

super love this song..

di mawawala to sa playlist ko..

especially ung duet with olivia love it!!