David Foster beams about Son’s ‘amazing’ drumming
David Foster And Katharine McPhee have no explanation for the impressive drumming skills of their 2-year-old son Rennie.
“We play together and I jam with him, but I don’t know where he learned it,” the 74-year-old Foster exclusively said We weekly while I was on the red carpet at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills on Sunday, January 7. ‘I swear I’m not a drummer. I have no idea how he learned it. So fluid. That’s the really mind-boggling thing.”
Foster added, “He’s not even potty trained.”
Aside from his prodigious musical skills, Rennie is “just a normal kid,” Foster emphasized. “He puts down the drums and plays with his toys.”
Although Rennie will be on the road while Foster and McPhee, who married in 2019, tour together starting in February, don’t expect the parents to bring their toddler on stage. ‘I don’t want to parade him around in front of everyone. He’s young, he’s still a kid,” Foster said.
Rennie was jamming on the drums in a video shared via Instagram last week by Foster, a prolific music producer. It drew praise from Charlie Put, Jewel, Jermaine Dupri and more. Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum even said: “He’s killing it, the 1 is here!! crazy fills and always nailing the 1, I like how you had him put 16th on the hat and he ended up going there.
Rennie’s latest video even shows an improvement over the October 2023 clip that McPhee, 39, posted — which was still very impressive.
“I think for a long time we thought it was fun and interesting that he really loved the drums and seemed to have a talent for that, but he’s really gone to another level,” says the American Idol alum told Us at the time. “And so now the text messages between me and my husband are changing. “This is really crazy, right?” The control, the obsession of the urge to play as much as he does all day long. I say, ‘Do you want to go to the park? Do you want to go somewhere, nice?’ Somewhere where every child would say, “Yes!” And he said, ‘I want to play my drums.’”
Katharine McPhee’s cutie! While the singer has been keeping her and David Foster’s son Rennie’s face hidden, she has shown many glimpses of the little one since his arrival. In October 2021, news broke that the American Idol alum was pregnant with her and the composer’s first child together. (The Canada native is also the father of […]
McPhee, who married Foster in 2019, admitted she wasn’t so sure Rennie was a child prodigy when he first showed signs of talent.
“I kind of talked about it for a long time, not thinking it was anything like what people said it is, but it seems like it’s something that’s really undeniable for him in his future” , says McPhee. told Us. “I don’t know if he can keep it up, but it’s pretty impressive, I’ll say.”
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi