Daniel Powter is a Canadian recording artist, born on February 25, 1971. He grew up in Vernon, 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 Piano pop single "Bad Day" debuted not in his home country of Canada, but in Europe in mid 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. Additionally, "Bad Day" is currently being used extensively by American Idol for its fifth season. The song achieved a lot of airplay in most European countries, and made it as high as number three on the overall European airplay chart. It did best in both Germany where it peaked at number one in national airplay, and in the UK where it peaked at number two in the singles chart and stayed in the top 10 for thirteen weeks. It is currently the number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, seven weeks after its release. In Australia, it peaked at number three. The song reached top five in Canada and then became a hit at Adult Top 40 radio. It was fifth place in the British Record of the Year 2005.

On July 2, 2005, Powter performed at the Berlin installment of Live 8, a simultaneous group of concerts in nine countries intended to raise awareness of poverty in Africa and put pressure on world leaders for aid.

On April 1, 2006, he was crowned the best new artist at the Canadian Juno Awards.

The video for "Bad Day" features actress Samaire Armstrong, best known for her role as Anna on the popular American television show The O.C..

Daniel Powter has a music publishing deal with BMG Music Publishing for France.

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