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Daniel Powter
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Canadian musician and singer
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Daniel Powter is a Canadian singer, pianist and singer-songwriter, born in Vernon on 25 February 1971, where he resides. He was educated at MacEwan University and began his musical career in 1997, performing piano rock and pop music with the Avex Group label. Powter, a tenor who has dyslexia, was nominated for an MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act and a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. His work includes the song Bad Day.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Bad Day
- Bad Day (Sheet Music)
- Daniel Powter
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1971
Discography
- I'm Your Betty2000
- Bad Day2004
- Daniel Powter2005
- Free Loop2005
- Jimmy Gets High2005
- Lie to Me2006
- Love You Lately2006
- B-Sides2007
- Best of Me2008
- Next Plane Home2008
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,280,393
- Total plays
- 11,514,060
Tags
Daniel Powter is a Canadian recording artist, born on 25 February 1971. He grew up in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada, in the Okanagan Valley region of British Columbia. With few local musical influences, he credits his early exposure to music to his mother, who was a pianist and took her son on long distance trips to see artists like Prince perform in Vancouver. Daniel Powter released his debut album, I'm Your Betty, in 2000. The album, limited to a very small print <a href="https://www.last.
Key facts
- Born
- Daniel Richard Powter , ( 1971-02-25 ) February 25, 1971 (age 55) , Vernon, British Columbia , Canada
- Genres
- Pop rock alternative rock
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter
- Years active
- 1984–present
- Labels
- Outside Warner Avex EMI Unleashed KDS Farrell, Inc
- Website
- danielpowter .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Daniel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Vernon
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Avex Group
- Official website
- www.danielpowter.com
- Image
- Daniel Powter 2013 (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Vernon
- Voice type
- tenor
Show 6 more facts
- Commons category
- Daniel Powter
- date of birth
- 1971-02-25
- nominated for
- Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
- social media followers
- 196000
- medical condition
- dyslexia
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Daniel Richard Powter (/ˈpaʊtər/; born February 25, 1971) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. His 2005 pop single "Bad Day" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks. He was nominated for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 49th Grammy Awards for "Bad Day" and won the Juno Award for Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2006.
Powter's subsequent work never reached the same success as "Bad Day", with Billboard dubbing him the top "one-hit wonder" of the 2000s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Daniel Powter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.