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Browse piano sheets by Daniel Powter on Zen Virtual Piano. Daniel Powter grew up in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, where he learned to play violin first. In his teens he switched to piano and began singing and playing in bands, and after high school he studied music at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton. He said he played keyboards in other bands before he started to write songs. A violin, then a piano, then a place in other people’s bands suggests a songwriter who learned the stage before he wrote for it, and who knew how a song sounds from inside a group. In 1997 Powter met the producer Jeff Dawson, and their collaboration let him develop his songwriting and create his soulful pop, piano-based sound. Powter said he got so addicted to writing in that studio that he worked on the songs all day and all night. He recalled that he wrote Bad Day from a melody that was stuck in his head, and that when he came up with the chord progression and sang the words “Bad Day” in the chorus, it just seemed to fit. A tune that would not go away, and a title that simply fit, suggest a song that arrived through repetition more than planning, and that earned its place by sticking. Bad Day was included on the CD that Powter and Dawson first shopped to record labels, and several major labels showed interest, but the New York auditions did not go well because Powter had not yet developed his performing skills as a solo artist. The album was released in France first, in 2005, with Warner Bros. France, he said, loving the record. Bad Day came in fifth in the British Record of the Year 2005; in 2006 Powter won New Artist of the Year at the Canadian Juno Awards and was nominated for Best International Breakthrough Act at the BRIT Awards, and in 2007 he received a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the song. A song called Bad Day that carried its writer through auditions that went poorly and on to major nominations can be read as a title that described only part of the story. Free Loop (One Night Stand), his second single, followed Bad Day; in the United Kingdom it was ineligible to chart because a live version of Bad Day was included as a B-side while the original was still in the UK top 40, and in the United States it reached the Billboard Adult Contemporary top 30. In 2008 he released his third album, Under the Radar, and AllMusic writes that it seemed as if Bad Day was so ubiquitous that it threatened to overshadow his later work and that it took him a few years to come to terms with his success. A hit so large that it seemed to overshadow later work can be read as success leaving a songwriter with both a calling card and a long shadow.
Browse piano sheets by Daniel Powter on Zen Virtual Piano.
Daniel Powter grew up in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, where he learned to play violin first. In his teens he switched to piano and began singing and playing in bands, and after high school he studied music at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton. He said he played keyboards in other bands before he started to write songs. A violin, then a piano, then a place in other people’s bands suggests a songwriter who learned the stage before he wrote for it, and who knew how a song sounds from inside a group.
In 1997 Powter met the producer Jeff Dawson, and their collaboration let him develop his songwriting and create his soulful pop, piano-based sound. Powter said he got so addicted to writing in that studio that he worked on the songs all day and all night. He recalled that he wrote Bad Day from a melody that was stuck in his head, and that when he came up with the chord progression and sang the words “Bad Day” in the chorus, it just seemed to fit. A tune that would not go away, and a title that simply fit, suggest a song that arrived through repetition more than planning, and that earned its place by sticking.
Bad Day was included on the CD that Powter and Dawson first shopped to record labels, and several major labels showed interest, but the New York auditions did not go well because Powter had not yet developed his performing skills as a solo artist. The album was released in France first, in 2005, with Warner Bros. France, he said, loving the record. Bad Day came in fifth in the British Record of the Year 2005; in 2006 Powter won New Artist of the Year at the Canadian Juno Awards and was nominated for Best International Breakthrough Act at the BRIT Awards, and in 2007 he received a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for the song. A song called Bad Day that carried its writer through auditions that went poorly and on to major nominations can be read as a title that described only part of the story.
Free Loop (One Night Stand), his second single, followed Bad Day; in the United Kingdom it was ineligible to chart because a live version of Bad Day was included as a B-side while the original was still in the UK top 40, and in the United States it reached the Billboard Adult Contemporary top 30. In 2008 he released his third album, Under the Radar, and AllMusic writes that it seemed as if Bad Day was so ubiquitous that it threatened to overshadow his later work and that it took him a few years to come to terms with his success. A hit so large that it seemed to overshadow later work can be read as success leaving a songwriter with both a calling card and a long shadow.
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He grew up in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, where he learned violin first before switching to piano in his teens.
He recalled that he had a melody stuck in his head, then came up with the chord progression, and when he sang the words “Bad Day” in the chorus it seemed to fit.
In 2006 he won New Artist of the Year at the Canadian Juno Awards and was nominated for Best International Breakthrough Act at the BRIT Awards, and in 2007 he received a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Bad Day.
Free Loop (One Night Stand) is his second single and the follow-up to Bad Day, and it reached the top 30 of the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.