John Foster‘s world was rocked when his classmates/buddies Maggie Dunn and Caroline Gill have been killed in a automotive accident on New 12 months’s Eve 2022. Nonetheless, their deaths have been additionally what impressed him to jot down the music that modified the trajectory of his life.
“When it comes to once I determined that music was my factor, it was completely, a million %, December 31, 2022, the day I misplaced my buddies Maggie and Caroline,” Foster shared on the Fable Home podcast. “Earlier than that, I used to be sort of simply teetering across the concept of music, taking part in it on the weekends right here and there. It wasn’t till that day, once I went by way of the worst day of my life, once I sat down and wrote that music.”
The music was “Inform That Angel I Love Her,” which Foster carried out on an episode of American Idol and later grew to become the primary single he launched after the present. He was the runner-up on Season 23 earlier this 12 months.
“Earlier than [that song], music was only a perhaps concept for me,” he continued. “It was simply one thing that’s cool, however I don’t know if I’ll ever actually join with it in that basically particular approach it’s essential join with it if you wish to be somebody who does music for the remainder of your life. I wrote that music that day and that was my first ‘it’ second. That was it. I had tears flowing, my guitar was moist with tears. I used to be that music and studying it again and pondering, ‘I simply did this.’”
Dunn and Gill have been killed when a police officer crashed into their automotive whereas pursuing a suspect on a chase. The officer reportedly ran a purple mild and was driving at 86 miles per hour when he slammed into the automotive Dunn was driving, with Gill within the passenger seat and Dunn’s brother, who was critically injured, within the again, per WAFB.