Alex Henry Foster

Alex Henry Foster

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 one in "All Genres" in the Canadian iTunes charts in the first week of its release, and 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. He also released an EP and videoclips for the song "Summertime Departures", followed by an EP and a short film for the song "The Hunter (By the Seaside Window)", as well as an EP for the song "Lavender Sky" that features a live version of the song performed with his band in his studio-church, which they turned into they first direct-to-vinyl, crafted in the band's own creative atelier. He released a videoclip for the song "Lavender Sky", the 4th single on his album Windows in the Sky. The videoclip filmed in Iceland was premiered and acclaimed by BrooklynVegan and also talked about by the British magazine NME. On August 7, 2020, Alex Henry Foster released the EP "Snowflakes in July", last of the "Windows in the Sky" series, consisting of a song performed live from his studio-church and broadcast on BrooklynVegan on July 26, 2020. The live version of the song was released as a collector direct-to-vinyl, crafted in Foster's own record label atelier. On May 1st, 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 (magazine), 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.

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