Daniel Powter is a Canadian singer-songwriter best known for his 2005 hit single
Bad Day. It received numerous airplay throughout Europe and US, and thrust
Daniel Powter into the mainstream - staying in the UK Top 10 for over thirteen
weeks, and named Billboard's 2006 single of the year. Powter was raised in
British Columbia, and began learning the violin from a very young age, but soon
began learning the piano in earnest. Although he was accepted by Grant MacEwan
in Alberta to study music, he dropped out two months later due to his
difficulties with dyslexia. He began to learn m...