David Jost

David Jost was born on 12 August 1972 in Hamburg, Germany. He is an international music producer, singer-songwriter, DJ and manager.

Early years
At the age of 12 David started breakdancing, DJing, painting graffiti and then won the German Breakdance Championships in 1986. In the nineties David Jost worked in collaboration with several German musicians such as Franz Plasa,  Michel Van Dyke,  Stefan Knoess,  Andreas Herbig,  etc. ... on several projects like Neil Hickethier,  Glass,  Bed and Breakfast,  Ian O'Brien-Docker  (Totally Alright ). Together with Dave Roth David Jost produced remixes for Faith Hill, The Doors, The Corrs and Mötley Crüe and Jewel. Furthermore David Jost and Dave Roth wrote radio hits like 'Undone'  as well they composed and produced the song 'Joyride'  for the European TV campaign of Veltins.

Tokio Hotel
For  Tokio Hotel, Jost has composed, produced and mixed six platinum selling #1 Hit Singles and three platinum selling #1 albums, and he also has developed the band and is managing them. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> Tokio Hotel became the biggest international rock band to come out of Germany within two decades. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jost's work with  Tokio Hotel<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> lead to 87 media-awards, <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> including 4 MTV European Music Awards, <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> the MTV Video Music award Japan, <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> 4 MTV Latin Music Awards including song of the year for " Monsoon<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">" <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> and also the US MTV Video Music Award (Moonman). <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> Even though Jost managed several careers of big media artists, he only rarely answers interviews for the press and is known for principally never giving TV interviews. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> For his work as a songwriter, Jost was named Germany's best songwriter (Rock & Pop) by the  GEMA<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> (the German equivalent to the  ASCAP<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">/ BMI<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">). <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> Jost is currently working in his Los Angeles <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> studios.

<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Together with  Tokio Hotel<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">'s lead singer  Bill Kaulitz<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> David Jost composed the multi platinum selling # 1 hit single  Monsoon<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">. David also produced and Mixed "Monsoon", which was multiple times awarded worldwide as best song, including the MTV Latin Awards in Mexico for "Best Song of the Year". <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> In addition to "Monsoon" David Jost produced  Tokio Hotel<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">'s further 5 platinum selling #1 hits singles, as well as  Tokio Hotel<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">'s entire multi platinum selling #1 Album "Scream", <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> which scored gold and platinum worldwide and two further #1 platinum awarded international albums <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> for  Tokio Hotel<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">.

Work with other artists
<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">David Jost wrote  Selena Gomez<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">'s song " Love Will Remember<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">". <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Along with Gomez's new album "Stars Dance", <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> Jost's composition went straight to No. 1 in the US Billboard charts on 1 August 2013. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">David wrote the song together with his production-partners  Rock Mafia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> and Selena. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> David continued collaborating with Rock Mafia, co-writing Selena's song 'Love Will Rememeber' for her 2013 release 'Stars Dance'. For Grammy winning <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> urban artist  Chris Brown,<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> David Jost wrote and co-produced the song "Nobody's Perfect" <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> which is featured on Brown's upcoming worldwide album named "X", <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> in collaboration with Chris Brown, Lukas Hilbert, Showtek, K.C. Livingston. He co-wrote and co-produced the song 'Summertrain' from Grayson Chance's album  Hold On 'til the Night<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">. Together with  Neue Deutsche Welle<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> icons, <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> Inga Humpe, and Tommi Eckart, Jost wrote and produced ‘Bei Dir Bin Ich Schön’ which is set as the lead single of the upcoming album of Berlin’s <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> indie-elektro band 2Raumwohnung. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> He also co-wrote two more songs off their  Achtung fertig<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> album - 'Ein neues Gefuhl' and 'Bye Bye Bye'. David co-wrote song 'Wenn du Liebst' for Adel Tawil's first solo album 'Lieder'  <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">released on November 8, 2013. David is credited co-writer on Marlon Roudette's song 'Hearts Pull' off Marlon's 2014 album 'Electric Soul'. For Timbaland signed <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> Keri Hilson, David Jost composed and produced the platinum selling # 1 hit single "I Like", <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> which became Hilson's first #1 hit in Germany ever. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> For Lady Gaga, David Jost produced the "Born This Way (Jost & Naaf Remix)", <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> which was included as the only remix on the over 7 million selling <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> international version of Gaga's album Born This Way. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> In 2011 David produced a radio mix of GAGA’s single "Marry the Night (David Jost Twin Radio Mix)". <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Right after David Jost produced a remix for Limp Bizkit's hit single Shotgun, <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> he composed, produced and mixed the multiple platinum selling #1 hit single Geronimo with  Aura Dione<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> and  Joacim Persson<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> The song reached the #1 in the radio charts for several weeks and already sold 6 times platinum in European territories. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> Dione's second single "Friends" of her hit album " Before the Dinosaurs<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">" is written by  Aura Dione<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> and David Jost and is produced by David Jost and  Rock Mafia<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">. The single got recently released  <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">and reached the official German radio charts #1. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> Furthermore  Heidi Klum<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> has chosen David Jost's composition "Girls Beautiful", <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> as the title song for the last "Next Topmodel" season. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> On top of that David Jost produced and mixed "Girls Beautiful".

Movie soundtracks and commercials
<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">David Jost contributed songs for movie  soundtracks<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> including  Tim Burton<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">’s " Alice in Wonderland<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">". <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> For Sony Pictures US, David Jost contributed his composition and production "By your Side" <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> for the movie soundtrack "Prom Night", <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> the movie ranked number 1 in US box office sales. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> David Jost´s song " I like<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">" sung by  Keri Hilson<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> became the title song of  Til Schweiger<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">'s <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> feature film " Zweiohrküken<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">". <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> "Half a Dream Away" performed by  Blind<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> was used in the soundtrack of the movie "Gangs" (2009). <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> For blockbuster movie 'Schlussmacher' <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> by director, star and contributing screenwriter Matthias Schweighöfer, <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> David Jost co-wrote the hit single 'Hurt Lovers' for the British band 'Blue', which also was the title song of Schweighöfer's bestseller. <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> In addition to that David Jost composed music for TV campaigns of various brands including  BMW<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">,  Mercedes<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">,  Veltins<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> and  Verizon<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">/ Motorola<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">. David Jost's composition "Human connect to human" was selected for  Verizon<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">'s US campaign to introduce their  Motorola Droid<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;"> phone.