Alex Henry Foster

rdf:langString Alex Henry Foster

rdf:langString Alex Henry Foster

rdf:langString Alex Henry Foster

rdf:langString Montreal, Quebec, Canada

rdf:langString Vocals, guitar

rdf:langString Hopeful Tragedy – Sony Music / The Orchard

rdf:langString Singer, musician, writer

rdf:langString Alex Henry Foster is a Canadian artist, singer, musician, writer and activist, best known for being the singer and frontman of the Montreal band Your Favorite Enemies. The band was founded in 2006 and nominated for a Juno Award for their album Between Illness and Migration in 2015. In 2018, Foster announced the release of a first solo project, Windows in the Sky, through Hopeful Tragedy Records and Sony Music / The Orchard. His first solo album reached number 6 on the Billboard Canadian Albums Chart on the second week of its release. Alex Henry Foster was nominated at ADISQ for the first time in 2019 with his first solo effort "Windows in the Sky" for Anglophone album of the year. In 2020, Alex Henry Foster and his band The Long Shadows went on their first tour, alongside ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, playing concerts all across Europe. On May 1, 2020, his first solo record entitled Windows in the Sky was released worldwide, with the launching event taking place on the online portal of Prog, through the broadcast of a 60-minute concert, live from Alex Henry Foster's studio established in a former Catholic church near Montreal city. He was also interviewed by Rolling Stone France upon his album release and was featured on the front page of the magazine. On April 16, 2021, he released his first live album, Standing Under Bright Lights, taken from his live performance at the 40th Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. His sold-out concert was one of the most anticipated and successful shows of the festival. The album was given a 4.5/5 stars review by Le Devoir and 5/5 star reviews and got acclaimed in worldwide press coverage. The week following its release, it made its Australian charts debut at No. 6 on the ARIA Top 50 Albums charts and reached the 4th position of the "Top 20" of UK's Official Independent Album Breakers Chart, No. 13 in the "Top 50" of the Official Independent Albums Chart, and No. 32 in the Top 100 "Official Albums Sales Chart". The live album charted at No. 4 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, No. 18 in the Emerging Artists chart No. 31 in the Current Album Sales chart and No. 55 of the Album Sales chart, with FYI Music news confirming that the album scored the highest album sales for the week. In the week of April 30, 2021 to May 6, 2021, it made its entry in the Irish Albums Chart at No. 17 of the Top 50 and was the most downloaded album of the week. In August 2021, Foster became the owner of the Moroccan boutique hotel "La Maison de Tanger", an oasis in the heart of the old city of Tangier and sought for by an international clientele for more than two decades. On September 22, 2021, his live album "Standing Under Bright Lights" received an ADISQ nomination in the category "Sound Engineer of the Year", rewarding Ben Lemelin's work, Foster's longtime creative partner.