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Elaine Foster is a New Orleans vocalist whose background singing runs through four decades of the city's records — Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Johnny Adams, Bobby Charles, and more.
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Elaine Foster is a New Orleans vocalist whose background singing runs through four decades of the city's records — Irma Thomas, Dr. John, Johnny Adams, Bobby Charles, and more.
Biography
Elaine Foster is a New Orleans vocalist whose background singing runs through four decades of the city's records. AllMusic credits her on Irma Thomas sessions from 1986's The New Rules through 2009's 50th Anniversary set, on Dr. John's Tribal (2010), Johnny Adams's After Dark (1985), Man of My Word (1998), and The Great Johnny Adams R&B Album (2006), plus records by Bobby Charles, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Rockin' Dopsie Jr., Marcia Ball, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, and John Fogerty's Wrote a Song for Everyone (2013).
On stage she's sung the Whitney Houston tribute at Hamp Fest 2012 alongside Angela Bell and Erica Falls, added backing vocals to Kenny Neal's Friends & Legends of Louisiana, and sang on Keith Stone's The Prodigal Returns. She's on the NOLA Funk Fest 2026 bill on Saturday, October 17, part of the Allen Toussaint tribute day.
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