Alex Henry Foster (“Your Favorite Enemies” band vocals)

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. In 2022, he released the cover single "The Power of the Heart". On April 26, 2024, Foster released a record titled Kimiyo, written and produced alongside his longtime creative partner Ben Lemelin and Japanese-Canadian artist Momoka Tobari. The album debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart. On September 20, 2024, Foster released the instrumental album A Measure of Shape and Sounds, also co-written and co-produced with Lemelin. Both Kimiyo and A Measure of Shape and Sounds received nominations at the 47th ADISQ Gala, including “Album of the Year – Bilingual and Other Languages” for Kimiyo and two nominations for A Measure of Shape and Sounds in the categories “Album of the Year – Popular Success” and “Album of the Year – Instrumental”. On May 16, 2025, Foster released A Nightfall Ritual, a live album made of 4 songs recorded live at Die Kantine in Cologne on July 27, 2024, during his tour Ascending Through Bright Lights, which marked his return on stage after a cardiac surgery. The release was accompanied by an international tour throughout 2025, including performances across Europe and appearances at several festivals, while the album received coverage in international music press and continued Foster’s presence on independent and alternative music charts. In 2026, Foster was part of the lineup for the 10th-anniversary edition of the progressive rock festival cruise Cruise to the Edge, which took place from March 4 to March 9 aboard the Norwegian Pearl sailing from Miami with stops in Key West and Nassau. The event featured performances by artists including Marillion, Steve Hackett, Big Big Train, Eddie Jobson, Queensrÿche, and Adrian Belew, among others. On May 15, 2026, the EP From the City to the Ocean was released, featuring 3 recent version of the song of the same name, originally released under Your Favorite Enemies on the album Between Illness and Migration. Foster was born in Montreal, Canada and moved around Montreal and its suburbs during his childhood. After graduating from l'Université de Montréal as a social worker, he met Sef Lemelin with whom, along with Ben Lemelin and Miss Isabel, he started a band called The Riddlers, which became Your Favorite Enemies after Jeff Beaulieu and Charles "Moose" Allicie officially joined. Foster co-founded the record label Hopeful Tragedy Records which set their studios and headquarters in a former Catholic church in Drummondville, Quebec in 2009. The facilities host music and multimedia studios, as well as The Fabrik, a creative group with spaces and equipments to screen-print, craft merchandising and press & cut vinyls on site. Following the loss of his father, Foster decided to leave for Tangier, Morocco in 2016, where he spent two years working on what has become his debut album Windows in the Sky, launching his solo career. His entire band joined him to work on new musical projects, setting a professional music studio in the heart of Tangier. He released Windows in the Sky on November 9, 2018, which was premiered in Tokyo, Japan, prior to its release. In 2017, Foster released the book A Journey Beyond Ourselves, revisiting the story behind the making of Your Favorite Enemies' album "Tokyo Sessions". In 2018, Alex Henry Foster released his first solo album Windows in the Sky in Canada. It reached and remained at the top of the charts for multiple weeks after its release. In July 2019, he performed live for the first time as a solo act at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, and his album Windows in the Sky was nominated for "Anglophone Album of the Year" at ADISQ in the fall of the same year. In 2020, Alex Henry Foster and his band members "The Long Shadows" toured across Europe with ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, to critical acclaim. In January 2020, he released an EP and lyric video for the song "Summertime Departures", followed by the release of a videoclip featuring his live performance at his first ever concert at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal in front of a sold out venue. In March 2020, he released the EP for the song "The Hunter (By the Seaside Window)" as well as a short film for the 15-minute song made in collaboration with French producer and friend Jessie Nottola, who also worked with Tinariwen, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Arthur H. This short film, in the likes of David Lynch, was filmed near Montreal, Canada and got more than 150,000 views on YouTube a few days after its release. On May 1, 2020, his album Windows in the Sky was released worldwide through a live concert from his studio-church broadcast on the online portal of the British Prog. It was preceded by the broadcast of a live rehearsal of Alex Henry Foster's band via ADISQ's portal, which had nominated his album in the category "Album of the Year - Anglophone" in 2019. On June 9, 2020, Alex and his bandmates broadcast a live performance of the song "Lavender Sky" from their studio-church, and cut it on vinyl, turning it into their first direct-to-vinyl creation, crafted in-house, in their own creative atelier. On June 26, 2020, Alex Henry Foster released a music video