{"id":199728,"date":"2025-10-30T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/30\/meet-america-foster-major-lazers-youngest-first-woman-member-felt-like-i-had-known-these-guys-for-ages\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T16:20:34","slug":"meet-america-foster-major-lazers-youngest-first-woman-member-felt-like-i-had-known-these-guys-for-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/30\/meet-america-foster-major-lazers-youngest-first-woman-member-felt-like-i-had-known-these-guys-for-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet America Foster \u2014 Major Lazer\u2019s Youngest & First Woman Member: \u2018Felt Like I Had Known These Guys for\u00a0Ages\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tSince it first roared onto the Billboard<\/em> charts with 2009\u2019s Guns Don\u2019t Kill People\u2026 Lazers Do <\/em>LP, Major Lazer<\/a> has established itself as one of the most innovative collectives in mainstream music through its fusion of EDM, dancehall, hip-hop, reggaet\u00f3n, trap and soca. Now, the group\u2019s three current members \u2014 Diplo<\/a>, Walshy Fire<\/a> and Ape Drums<\/a> \u2014 have officially added a fourth name to the lineup: America Foster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tA 28-year-old British-Jamaican artist, model and content creator, America Foster hails from the outskirts of London in South Buckinghamshire. As one of seven children in a household dominated by boys, she quickly learned how to lean into her knack for entertaining to ensure her voice was heard. She remembers developing her freestyling as a party trick as young as 10, and around age 15, she started playing around with accents and voice acting, sending friends into laughing fits with prank calls and her imitations of the London Underground voiceover. As she entered the final years of her adolescence and her creative friends started seriously pursuing their dreams, Foster brushed off countless requests to hop in the booth and freestyle over a track.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was completely opposed to it,\u201d she recalls. \u201cAnd then one of my friends [convinced] me to come to their studio session, the producers spun around in their chairs like, \u2018Your turn!\u2019 I was like, \u2018Not happening!\u2019 That ended up being the first time I ever put my vocals on a studio recording.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFoster is the first to admit that those early songs weren\u2019t the strongest \u2014 \u201cThey were very commercial, Chris Brown dance-pop; I call it McDonald\u2019s music\u201d \u2014 but she eventually landed on a sound that distilled the authenticity, cultural fluency and bubbly quirk of her off-the-cuff social media content, which garnered her hundreds of thousands of followers pre-Major Lazer and resulted in a Red Rat<\/a>-informed approach to dancehall toasting and singjaying anchored by her striking charisma. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter a few viral clips caught Diplo\u2019s attention, Foster quickly took advantage of the potential music industry connection. She thanked the Grammy-winning DJ for following her, and the two started exchanging music, culminating in an in-person meeting at his Roundhouse show last September. There, the pair planned a studio session in Jamaica, where Foster met the rest of Major Lazer, and by Paris\u2019 F\u00eate de la Musique in June, she made her live debut with the group. In July, Foster officially announced her addition to Major Lazer via Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tArriving as the group\u2019s youngest and first woman member, Foster made her official Major Lazer debut with a freestyle remix of August\u2019s \u201cGangsta,\u201d<\/a> a shatta-informed track that also features Kybba and Busy Signal<\/a>. A few weeks later (Oct. 24), Foster joined forces with buzzy Toronto artist Sadboi and Emmy-winning choreographer Parris Goebel<\/a> for \u201cBruk Down,\u201d a standout \u201890s dancehall-inspired track that doubles as Goebel\u2019s musical debut.\u00a0Goebel also co-directed the track\u2019s flashy music video alongside Philippa Price. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe understands what she\u2019s good at, and she understands that she\u2019s got a market for it. It\u2019s genius to me,\u201d Foster tells Billboard<\/em> about working with Goebel. \u201cI\u2019ve heard some of her songs that are due to come out, and they are amazing \u2014 especially for the dance community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a candid conversation with Billboard<\/em>, America Foster details her origins, integrating herself into the Major Lazer family, fashioning \u201cBruk Down\u201d out of a freestyle and what else she\u2019s cooking up with her new groupmates.<\/p>\n

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