Daniel Powter

Daniel Powter is a Canadian recording artist, born on February 25 1971. He grew up in Vernon, in the Okanagan Valley region of British Columbia. With few local musical influences, he credits his early exposure to music to his mother, who w

Daniel Powter is a Canadian recording artist, born on February 25 1971. He grew up in Vernon, 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's first Piano pop single "Bad Day" debuted not in his home country of Canada, but in Europe in mid 2005. It was chosen by Warner Brothers as a submission for commercial production and was subsequently chosen by Coca-Cola as the theme song for an ad campaign in Europe. The song achieved a lot of airplay in most European countries, and made it as high as #3 on the overall European airplay chart. It did best in both Germany where it peaked at #1 in national airplay, and in the UK where it peaked at #2 in the singles chart, and staying within the UK top 10 for thirteen weeks. In Australia, it peaked at #3. The song is now top five in Canada and is showing early signs of life in the United States on Adult Top 40 radio. It was fifth place in the British Record of the Year 2005.