David Jost
David Jost is a German music producer, singer-songwriter, and DJ born in Hamburg. His career has a track record of 74 platinum, 108 gold records, and 14 No. 1 hits. He's worked with artists like Lady Gaga, Chris Brown, Tokio Hotel, Limp Bizkit, Selena Gomez, Nelly Furtado, Keri Hilson, Aura Dione, and Adam Lambert. For his work as a songwriter, Jost was named Germany's best songwriter by the GEMA. For Tokio Hotel, Jost has composed, produced, and mixed six No. 1 singles and three No. 1 albums.
Even though Jost managed several careers as a big media artist, he rarely answers interviews for the press and is known for principally never giving TV interviews. Jost is working in Los Angeles as of 2012.
Early life
At the age of 12, Jost started breakdancing, DJing, and painting graffiti. In the 1990s, he worked in collaboration with several German musicians, such as Franz Plasa, Michel Van Dyke, Stefan Knoess, and Andreas Herbig, on several projects like Neil Hickethier's Glass, Bed and Breakfast, and Ian O'Brien-Docker's.Together with Dave Roth, Jost produced remixes for Faith Hill, The Doors, The Corrs, Mötley Crüe, and Jewel. Furthermore, Jost and Roth wrote the song "Undone" performed by Swiss singer Patrick Nuo, as well as the song "Joyride" used for a TV commercial of the German beer brand Veltins.
Career
Songwriter, producer and remixer
Jost wrote Selena Gomez's song "Love Will Remember", which reached No. 1 of the American Billboard charts in August 2013. Jost wrote the song together with his production partners Rock Mafia and Gomez herself. Jost continued collaborating with Rock Mafia, co-writing Gomez's song "Love Will Remember" for her 2013 release Stars Dance. For Chris Brown, Jost wrote and co-produced the song "Nobody's Perfect" which is featured on Brown's album X. He co-wrote and co-produced the song "Summertrain" from Greyson Chance's album Hold On 'til the Night.Together with Neue Deutsche Welle artists Inga Humpe and Tommi Eckart, Jost wrote and produced "Bei dir bin ich schön", which became the lead single of indie-electro band 2Raumwohnung's following album. Jost also co-wrote two more songs off their Achtung fertig album. Jost co-wrote "Wenn du liebst" for Adel Tawil's first solo album Lieder, released in 2013. Jost is credited co-writer on Marlon Roudette's song "Hearts Pull" from Roudette's 2014 album Electric Soul. For Keri Hilson, Jost composed and produced the hit single "I Like", which became Hilson's first No. 1 hit in Germany. For Lady Gaga, he produced the "Born This Way ", which was included as the only remix on the international version of Gaga's album Born This Way.
In 2011, Jost produced a radio mix of Lady Gaga's single "Marry the Night ". Shortly after, he produced a remix for Limp Bizkit's single "Shotgun". He composed, produced and mixed the hit single "Geronimo" with Aura Dione and Joacim Persson; the song reached the No. 1 in the radio charts for several weeks. Dione's second single "Friends" from her album Before the Dinosaurs was written by Jost and Dione, and produced by Jost and Rock Mafia; the single reached the official German radio charts No. 1. Heidi Klum selected Jost's composition "Girls Beautiful" as the title song for the sixth season of Germany's Next Topmodel.
Together with Tokio Hotel's lead singer Bill Kaulitz, Jost composed the single "Monsoon", as well as producing and mixing it. "Monsoon" was awarded multiple times worldwide, including winning "Best Song of the Year" at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Latinoamérica. Jost produced five more No. 1 singles by Tokio Hotel, as well as Tokio Hotel's No. 1 album Scream, and two more No. 1 platinum-awarded international albums for the band.