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Daniel Powter Daniel Powter is a Canadian recording artist, born on February 25, 1971. He grew up 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 single "Bad Day" debuted not in his home country of Canada, but in Europe in early 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 Germany where it peaked at #1 in national airplay. 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. On July 2, 2005, Daniel performed at the Berlin installment of Live 8, a simultaneous group of concerts in 9 countries intended to raise awareness of poverty in Africa and put pressure on world leaders for aid. The video for "Bad Day" features actress Samaire Armstrong, best known for her role as Anna on the popular American television show The OC.

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