Birth Name: David Walter Foster
Place of Birth: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Date of Birth: November 1, 1949
Ethnicity:
*37.5% English
*37.5% Scottish
*25% Irish
David Foster is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger. He is the son of Maurice Perry “Morry” Foster and Eleanor May Vantreight. He is married to model Yolanda Foster, the mother of model Gigi Hadid. He was previously married to B.J. Cook, Rebecca Dyer and Linda Thompson.
David’s paternal grandparents were Walter Milligan Foster (the son of James Rennie Foster and Emma Gladhill) and Alice Amelia Callard (the daughter of James Callard and Sarah Ann Abrahams). Walter and Alice were English immigrants, with Walter being from Bradford and Alice from Greenwich, London. James’s mother, Mary Thomson, was Scottish.
David’s maternal grandparents were Sidney Edwin Vantreight (the son of John Vantreight and Florence Ellen Sweny) and Jean Stalker McEachran (the daughter of Archibald Bowie McEachran and Jean Stalker). John and Florence were Irish immigrants, from Dublin. David’s maternal grandmother Jean was a Scottish immigrant, from Glasgow.
Source: Genealogy of David Foster – http://www.geni.com
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