Next plane home daniel powter biography

What was the most played song on UK radio between and ? Something by U2 or Coldplay perhaps, or maybe an Arctic Monkeys tune? Rihanna and her 'Umbrella'? Strangely, it's none of those acts. Outdoing all of the above is Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Powter and his piano pop anthem 'Bad Day'. What's even weirder is that it's taken him three years to release a proper follow-up.

Sadly, 'Next Plane Home' wasn't worth the wait. Sounding like The Feeling without the camp, pop or glam elements that make them fun, Powter's perky piano stylings are grating and his lyrics about an absent lover ("I can't believe I missed your birthday again") are just tedious. The result is a totally forgettable three minutes that won't be enough to shake off Powter's 'one-hit wonder' tag.

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Canadian musician (born )

Musical artist

Daniel Richard Powter (; born February 25, ) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He is best known for his self-penned hit song "Bad Day" (), which was at the top of the Billboard Hot 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.^{[citation needed]} 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,^[2] 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.^[3] He started writing songs when he was 13 years old.

Powter moved to Vancouver at the age of 22 and met producer Jeff Dawson in , releas