David Foster helped launch her music career in her 70s, now she has 60 million streams

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. LeFrak broke 60 million streams in her 70s after launching her first album in 2021. Musician Karen LeFrak is reflecting on finding fame later in life and the moment David Foster recognized her musical talent. During a recent interview with Fox News Digital, the 79-year-old composer detailed how it felt writing her latest album, "American Promise," commissioned for America's 250th anniversary. LeFrak's story is unique in the sense she found fame in her 70s, when Foster visited her house for a photo shoot, and she showed him an original piece she had written and asked him for his opinion. "He looked at me, and he said, 'Do you have any more?' And I proceeded to take out many," she recalled. "And he looked at me, and he said, 'Oh my God, you can write a melody. Nobody, nobody writes melodies anymore. They're all experimenting. You can really write a mel