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Daniel Powter

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Canadian musician and singer

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According to Wikipedia, Daniel Richard Powter is a Canadian musician and songwriter. He is best known for his self-penned hit song "Bad Day" , which was at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks. Biography Early life Powter grew up in Vernon, in the Okanagan-Shuswap region of British Columbia, alongside 2 brothers and a sister. As a child, Powter played the violin at the age of 4. He changed to piano at 16 years old after a group of children bullied him in the schoolyard, trashed and destroyed his violin. Due to dyslexia, Powter had trouble in university reading music, and dropped out at the age of 20 in order to pursue his own musical career, learning all songs by ear and recording new melodies that he created. He started writing songs when he was 13 years old.

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