Daniel Powter Biography

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senior year in high school that he made his first step in performing song, even recorded a single that won the airplay in Rocktoria, a radio contest held in Victoria, British Columbia.

Following his high school graduation, Daniel afterwards continued his study at Edmonton's Grant MacEwan College to broaden his knowledge in music yet he later found out that his learning disability once again brought him to frustration. "I got A's all the time in ear training,” he remarked. “But in theory I got an F because I didn't read well. After a while I started to hate school -- and I realized it was better for me to create on my own.” Subsequently dropped out from the college in his sophomore year, the young man then fixed his mind to pursue a singing career and so headed for Vancouver with the hope of finding enough decent opportunity to flourish there.

Daniel's bold decision fortunately did not result in vain as he made his way to impress producer Jeff Dawson who eagerly helped him compiling the materials for his demo tapes before sent them to some major recording companies. To their delight, a positive response quickly came from Warner Bros. ...

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Records which thus led to a meeting in Los Angeles and ultimately, a record deal Daniel had long waited in anticipation. Using this lavish opportunity to collaborate with Mitchell Froom, the man behind the works of Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, plus Randy Newman among others, he smoothly released his first effort, a single entitled “Bad Day”, by mid 2005 in Europe.

The outcome was really tremendous as “Bad Day” instantly soared to enter the top five of Canadian and Australian charts while became a smash hit in Europe, even took the fifth rank in the British Record of the Year in 2005. Looking on this attainment, Daniel then confidently crossed to the U.S. market, launching the single in February 2006 followed by his self-titled debut album on April 11, more than 7 months after its international release. As everyone had assumed, both works also found their success in the country, particularly the single, which amazingly secured the number one spot on three Billboard charts of Hot Digital Songs, Pop 100, and most notably, The Billboard Hot 100, unmistakably directed the singer to widespread recognition as another brilliant talent to watch of that year.

And to follow up the success of ...