David Jost (born 12 August 1972) is a German music producer, singer-songwriter and DJ born in Hamburg. His career has a track record of 74 platinum and 108 gold records and 14 No. 1 hits. He's worked with artists like

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, and

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. For his work as a songwriter, Jost was named Germany's best songwriter (Rock & Pop) by the GEMA (the German equivalent to the

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/ BMI). For

, Jost has composed, produced and mixed six No. 1 singles and three No. 1 albums. Even though Jost managed several careers of big media artists, 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

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, DJing and painting graffiti. In the 1990s, Jost 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, Glass, Bed and Breakfast and Ian O'Brien-Docker (Totally Alright). Together with Dave Roth, Jost produced remixes for

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, and Jewel. Furthermore, Jost and Roth wrote the song "Undone" performed by Swiss singer

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, as well as the song "Joyride" used for a TV commercial of the German beer brand

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Career

Songwriter, producer and remixer

Jost wrote

's song "

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", which reached No. 1 of the American

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charts in August 2013. Jost wrote the song together with his production partners

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and Gomez herself. Jost continued collaborating with Rock Mafia, co-writing Gomez's song "Love Will Remember" for her 2013 release '' Stars Dance''. For

, 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

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's album Hold On 'til the Night. Together with

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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 ("Ein neues Gefuhl" and "Bye Bye Bye"). Jost co-wrote "Wenn du liebst" for

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's first solo album ''

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'', released in 2013. Jost is credited co-writer on

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's song "Hearts Pull" from Roudette's 2014 album ''

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''. For

, Jost composed and produced the hit single " I Like", which became Hilson's first No. 1 hit in Germany. For

, he produced the "Born This Way (Jost & Naaf Remix)", 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 (David Jost Twin Radio Mix)". Shortly after, he produced a remix for

's single "

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". He composed, produced and mixed the hit single "

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" with

and

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; 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

; the single reached the official German radio charts No. 1.

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selected Jost's composition "Girls Beautiful" as the title song for the sixth season of ''

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''. Together with

's lead singer

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, Jost composed the single "

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", as well as producing and mixing it. "Monsoon" was awarded multiple times worldwide, including winning "Best Song of the Year" at the 2008

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. 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.

Soundtracks

Jost also contributed songs for film soundtracks. The song "Strange", co-written by Jost and performed by Tokio Hotel and

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, was included on the album ''

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'', a

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of various artists' music inspired by

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's film ''

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''. He also co-wrote the song "By Your Side" which was featured on the soundtrack of the film '' Prom Night''. The song " I Like", sung by

and co-written by Jost, became the title song of

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's feature film ''

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''. The song "Half a Dream Away" performed by Blind was used in the soundtrack of the German film ''Gangs'' (2009). For the German film ' by

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, Jost co-wrote the title song

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for the British band

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. Jost also composed music for TV campaigns of various brands including BMW, Mercedes,

and

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. His composition "Human Connect to Human" was selected for

's US campaign to introduce their

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phone.

References

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