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David Jost (born August 12, 1972) is a German music producer, singer-songwriter, and DJ born in Hamburg. ^[1] His career has a track record of 74 platinum, 108 gold records, and 14 No. 1 hits. ^[2] He's worked with artists like Lady Gaga, Chris Brown, Tokio Hotel, ^{[3] [4]} 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 (Rock & Pop) by the GEMA (the German equivalent to the ASCAP/ BMI). ^[5] For Tokio Hotel, Jost has composed, produced, and mixed six No. 1 singles and three No. 1 albums. ^[6]

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. ^[7] Jost is working in Los Angeles as of 2012. ^{[8] [9]}

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, ^[10] Michel Van Dyke, ^[11] Stefan Knoess, ^[12] and Andreas Herbig, ^[13] on several projects like Neil Hickethier's ^[13] Glass, ^[14] Bed and Breakfast, ^[15] and Ian O'Brien-Docker's ^[16] (Totally Alright ^[17]).

Together with Dave Roth, Jost produced remixes for Faith Hill, The Doors, The Corrs, Mötley Crüe, and Jewel. ^{[18] [19]} Furthermore, Jost and Roth wrote the song "Undone" performed by Swiss singer Patrick Nuo, ^{[20] [21]} as well as the song "Joyride" ^[22] used for a TV commercial of the German beer brand Veltins. ^[23]

Jost wrote Selena Gomez's song " Love Will Remember", ^[24] which reached No. 1 of the American Billboard charts in August 2013. ^[25] Jost wrote the song together with his production partners Rock Mafia and Gomez herself. ^[24] 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" ^[26] 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 ^[27] 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 ^[28] following album. ^[29] 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 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", ^[30] which became Hilson's first No. 1 hit in Germany. ^[31] For Lady Gaga, he produced the "Born This Way (Jost & Naaf Remix)", ^[32] which was included as the only remix on the international version of Gaga's album Born This Way. ^[33]

In 2011, Jost produced a radio mix of Lady Gaga's single "Marry the Night (David Jost Twin Radio Mix)". ^[34] 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; ^{[35] [36]} 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. ^[37] Heidi Klum selected Jost's composition "Girls Beautiful" ^[38] 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. ^[39] Jost produced five more No. 1 singles by Tokio Hotel, as well as Tokio Hotel's No. 1 album Scream, ^{[40] [41]} and two more No. 1 platinum-awarded international albums ^[42] for the band.

Jost also contributed songs for film soundtracks. The song "Strange", co-written by Jost and performed by Tokio Hotel and Kerli, was included on the album Almost Alice, a concept album of various artists' music inspired by Tim Burton's film Alice in Wonderland. ^[43] He also co-wrote the song "By Your Side" ^[44] which was featured on the soundtrack of the film Prom Night. ^[45] The song " I Like", sung by Keri Hilson and co-written by Jost, became the title song of Til Schweiger's ^[46] feature film Zweiohrküken. ^[47] The song "Half a Dream Away" performed by Blind was used in the soundtrack of the German film Gangs (2009). ^[48] For the German film Break Up Man [ de] ^[49] by Matthias Schweighöfer, ^[50] Jost co-wrote the title song Hurt Lovers for the British band Blue. ^[51] Jost also composed music for TV campaigns of various brands including BMW, Mercedes, Veltins ^[52] and Verizon/ Motorola. His composition "Human Connect to Human" was selected for Verizon's US campaign to introduce their Motorola Droid phone. ^[53]