The son of a maintenance yard superintendent and a homemaker, Foster has chronicled his life in the highly regarded, best-selling autobiography Foster has made charitable work his life’s other priority. The shows garnered rave reviews and were so successful that he will embark on a 50 city US tour in 2020. By Mike Larkin For Dailymail.com. In 1986, he received his first Oscar nod for ‘Glory of Love’. In 1991, he married songwriter/lyricist Linda Thompson. “We’ve moved that goalpost to $50 million and I think we’ll get there by the end of 2017,” Foster says. “So when you play a song that you’ve written and the entire 10,000-seat arena sings every word, that’s pretty thrilling.”In 2018/19 Foster started touring the US with his show ‘An Intimate Evening with David Foster’. He has five sisters: Jaymes, Ruth, Jeanie, Maureen, and Marylou. He wouldn’t meet her again for the next 30 years.He married his first wife singer/writer B. J. Cook in 1972 and has a daughter named Amy Foster-Gillies (born 1973) with her.After their divorce in 1981, he wed Rebecca Dyer on October 27, 1982. He entered into a contract in 1995 with Warner Brothers that helped him set up his own boutique label, 143 Records, with his then manager Brian Avnet serving as the chief executive.He collaborated with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds in the composition of ‘The Power of the Dream’, the official song for 1996 Atlanta Olympics.In 2001, he teamed up with Lara Fabian and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to produce English-language, French-language, and bilingual versions of Canada’s national anthem, ‘O Canada’.He wrote ‘I’ll Make It Up As I Go’ with his daughter Amy Foster-Gilles. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, family life, achievements and fun facts about his life. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Foster_(32685299744).jpg It was so cool, fun and even therapeutic just sitting at the piano and creating these melodies – this is me in my truest form and the piano has always been my go-to place. He organised the PBS special titled ‘Hit Man: David Foster & Friends’ in December 2008. See the events in life of David Foster in Chronological Order It is the entire range of the orchestra at your fingertips. My mantra is retreat and attack in another direction, which I’ve done twice. Bizarre detail of Katharine McPhee and David Foster’s age gap romance. As of 2009, the album has achieved RIAA 7x platinum certification.David Foster has received a staggering 47 Grammy nominations and won 16, including three Producer of the Year Awards.He was conferred with the Order of British Columbia civilian honour merit in 1995 and the Order of Canada honour merit in 1998.For ‘The Prayer’ from ‘Quest for Camelot’, he received Best Original Song Award at the 1998 Golden Globe Awards.In 2003, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for ‘The Concert for World Children's Day’ (shared with Linda Thompson).Foster was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010.He was granted a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in 2013.Married four times, David Foster is the father of five biological daughters and the grandfather of four granddaughters and three grandsons.