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Zedd (born September 2, 1989 in Saratow , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union , bourgeois Anton Zaslavski , Russian Антон Заславский ; scientific transliteration Anton Zaslavskij ) is a Russian - German music producer and DJ of electro house and pop . Zedd is under contract with the labels Interscope Records , OWSLA and Dim Mak Records. He had the greatest success so far with his single Clarity , which reached the top ten in the US charts and was awarded a Grammy .

biography

Life

Zedd was born in the Russian part of the Soviet Union . In September 1992 his Russian-Jewish family emigrated to Germany . He grew up as the son of two music teachers for piano, singing and guitar in the Rhineland-Palatinate Kaiserslautern in the Dansenberg district . Only Russian was spoken at home. In Kaiserslautern he attended high school on the Rittersberg . He started playing the piano at the age of four. With a jazz piece by Chick Corea , he took part in the youth music competition as a primary school student . From 2002 he played drums together with his brother Arkadi Zaslavski and Jochen Müller in the metal / rock band Dioramic on the Lifeforce Records label . In 2009 Justice's album "†" sparked his interest in electronic music. In 2012, Zedd moved to the United States , where he built his career.

From late 2014 to May 2015, he was in a committed relationship with US singer Selena Gomez .

Beginnings as a producer

On June 14, 2011, he released his single Dovregubben . This went straight to number one on the Beatport Electro House Charts.

In 2012, he and Max Martin produced the song Beauty and a Beat on Bieber's album Believe for Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj , which reached the Billboard Hot 100 among others . He also produced I Don't Like You by Eva Simons , the song reached number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs .

2012–2013: album Clarity and first chart successes

On October 2, 2012, he released his first studio album Clarity . It entered the US album charts at number 38 , but was only there for a week. The first single was Shave It Up . It was published on November 8, 2011, but could not reach any chart positions.

The second release was Spectrum . The song recorded Zedd together with the American musician Matthew Koma . At first it did not reach any charts, but after the song was used as a promotional song on the German television station ProSieben , it entered the top 100 in Germany, Austria and Japan. The third single from the album is titled Stache . The song only appeared digitally as a download and therefore did not reach any chart positions. Shortly after its release, a version of the song appeared, which was sung by the American singer Lady Gaga .

Clarity is the title of the fourth single from the album of the same name. The song was released on February 1, 2013 and contains vocals from Foxes . On February 16, it entered the British charts at number 34, where it reached its highest position at number 29. Almost two months later the song entered the US charts and climbed to number 8. James Maslow, the singer of Big Time Rush , covered this song and posted it on his YouTube channel. Clarity wasnamed Best Dance Recording of the Yearat the 2014 Grammy Awards . In addition, Zedd received the ASCAP and European Border Breakers Award as well as four other nominationsfor the single. A year later, Zedd released another version of the song in collaboration with the Danish singer Medina .

The song Codec from his album Clarity was used as the soundtrack for The Incredibles .

In the fall of 2013 he released the single Stay the Night , which he recorded with the American singer Hayley Williams , best known as the singer of the alternative rock band Paramore . The track hit the charts in every country, including the top 10 in Belgium, Ireland, Poland and the United Kingdom. In Australia, Sweden and the UK, the duo went platinum for over one million sales and received the 2014 MTV Video Music Award in the Clubland category. Remixes followed by DJs like Tiësto , DJ Snake and Nicky Romero . Numerous successful appearances around the world followed, including concerts in cities such as Hong Kong and Las Vegas as well as the Ultra Music Festival in Miami .

2014–2016: Worldwide success with Break Free and I Want You to Know

Zedd live at Veld 2017

In January 2014, Zedd released the song Find You , which was used as the theme song for the film "Divergent", together with Matthew Koma and the Swedish soul-pop singer Miriam Bryant . Parallel also appeared Push Play , a re-recording of the song by Miriam Bryant the same as a single. Although it was a remix, the artist “Zedd feat. Miriam Bryant ”. The track was the last release from his debut album.

In collaboration with the American singer Ariana Grande and the Swedish musician Max Martin , Zedd produced the song Break Free in Los Angeles and Santa Monica for her second studio album My Everything , which was released on August 22, 2014. Break Free was released as a second single in July 2014 and was played live for the first time at the MTV Video Music Awards. The song became a worldwide success and reached the top 10 of the official singles charts in over 15 countries. In addition, Zedd and Grande received more than ten platinum records.

On February 23, 2015, Zedd released the single I Want You to Know . The song is sung by Selena Gomez . The song was able to advance to number 1 in Brazil, to number 3 in the US and to number 3 on the iTunes charts, as well as reaching the top 10 in seven other countries. It also rose to number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the first week, started at number 1 on Billboard + Twitter Top Twitter Tracks and with 100,000 downloads sold according to Nielsen Ratings , it rose to number 7 in digital songs . OneRepublic front man Ryan Tedder and KDrew also worked as songwriters . On April 14, 2015, the second single, Addicted to a Memory , was released, together with Bahari. On May 11, 2015, his second studio album, True Colors , was finally released after two and a half years . Two days later, the third single, Beautiful Now , was released, which he recorded with Jon Bellion .

In 2016 he wrote the track Ignite , a cooperation with Riot Games for the League of Legends World Championship 2016. On April 29, 2016 , a new edition of his album track True Colors was released in cooperation with Kesha . Together with the US singer Hailee Steinfeld and the US music duo Gray, Starving was released as a single on July 22, 2016 and reached the top 10 in Great Britain, Canada and Australia, among others. In the USA the song reached number 12 and also in Central Europe high chart positions were achieved. The song was sold over 2 million times within half a year.

2017–2019: Various single releases

Zedd at LoveLoud 2018

In January 2017, Zedd announced a collaboration with Alessia Cara , who at that time celebrated success with the song Scars to Your Beautiful . This was released on February 24, 2017 as a single entitled Stay . At the same time, he started planning a benefit concert on the occasion of Donald Trump's decision to ban people with a migration background from entering the USA. This includes Daya , Halsey , Macklemore , Tinashe and Skrillex . In July 2017, the single Get Low was released in collaboration with Liam Payne . At the end of the year, Zedd released his first best-of album called Stay + . The compilation was released exclusively in Japan.

Zedd's next single was released on January 23, 2018, The Middle . The piece was created with the US country singer Maren Morris and the US electro duo Gray, with whom Zedd released the third single within a year and a half. The single placed in the charts worldwide and reached the top position of the US hot / dance electronic songs. Zedd's last single to date was released with Happy Now , a cooperation with the US singer Elley Duhé .

On February 14, 2019, Zedd released a collaboration with 365 with the American pop singer Katy Perry . Zedd continued working with Perry and wrote or produced her single Never Really Over , which was released on May 31, 2019. With Good Thing , the second single was released on 27 September 2019 from Zedd in calendar year 2019. This is a collaboration with the US R & B - singer and songwriter Kehlani .

Work as a composer and remixer

In addition to his solo career, Zedd is particularly active as a remixer. To this day he has produced remixes for various artists of different musical genres. His remixes for Lady Gaga's Born This Way , Skrillex ' Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites and The Time (Dirty Bit) by the Black Eyed Peas were particularly successful .

After he had great success with the songs he had written himself, more famous musicians began to hire him as a writer. He produced, wrote and composed songs for singers such as Justin Bieber , Nicki Minaj and Eva Simons . He also produced the songs Aura , GUY and Donatella together with Lady Gaga for their fourth studio album Artpop , which was released in November 2013. He also accompanied Lady Gaga as a DJ on her live tours and appeared in Asia as the opening act for Lady Gaga's The Born This Way Ball Tour .

Discography

Studio albums

year Title
music label 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
2012 Clarity
Interscope Records 		- - - - US38 (23 weeks)
US
First published: October 2, 2012
Sales: + 208,000
2015 True Colors
Interscope Records 		DE50 (1 week)
DE 		- CH68 (1 week)
CH 		UK42 (1 week)
UK 		US4 (20 weeks)
US
First published: May 15, 2015

Awards

Trivia

In August 2017, Zedd played at a poker tournament as part of the PokerStars Championship in Barcelona and finished third out of 226 players at the event with a buy-in of EUR 2,150. For this achievement he received prize money of 44,000 euros.

Web links

Commons : Zedd  - Collection of Images

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  1. ↑ a b Exclusive interview: Zedd , Electronica Oasis, December 27, 2010, accessed on August 29, 2013 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Mareike Nieberding, Basses for the World, in: Der Spiegel 29/2015, p. 107.
  3. ↑ Net Worth 2017, Bio, Real Name, Age, Height, Weight
  4. ↑ Skrillex, Zedd, and Porter Robinson Interview , YouTube , June 24, 2011, accessed July 28, 2012.
  5. ↑ [INTERVIEW] Zedd - 'The important point of the actual music is beieng neglected a bit' ( Memento from January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), upcoming-soon.com, June 5, 2011, accessed on July 28, 2012 ( English).
  6. ↑ http://www.konbini.com/us/entertainment/zedd-macklemore-skrillex-aclu-benefit-concert-welcome/
  7. ↑ Zedd Threatens to Leave the US ( Memento from April 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Article about the relationship with Gomez ( Memento from March 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Zedd's single Dovregubben is # 1 on Beatports Electro Chart ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Dim Mak, June 14, 2011, accessed on July 28, 2012
  10. ↑ Release Shave It Up
  11. ^ Billboard: Zedd rises on Spectrum, Lady Gaga Ties
  12. ↑ Article on Stache in Lady Gaga Wikipedia
  13. ↑ Zedd presents a new Clarity remix featuring Medina
  14. ↑ Report about Zedd on "Electric Love" ( Memento from July 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ List of all Zedd appearances
  16. ↑ Push Play Video Premiere ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Break Free goes Platinum ( Memento from November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Zedd - 'I Want You To Know (feat. Selena Gomez)' Brazilian iTunes Chart Performance . In: iTunesCharts.net . WebFaction . Retrieved January 1, 2019.
  19. ↑ a b c d Gary Trust: Hot 100 Chart Moves: Zedd & Selena Gomez Zoom In With 'I Want You to Know' . Billboard . March 06, 2015 2:03 PM EST. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
  20. ↑ The stories behind the World Cup music video by Zedd . In: LoL eSports . ( lolesports.com [accessed October 27, 2016]).
  21. ↑ Zedd wins the EBBA at ec.europa.eu last accessed on: January 22, 2014
  22. ↑ PokerStars Championship Barcelona (€ 2,150 No Limit Hold'em - Turbo - 8 Handed # 25) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 23, 2017 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Zedd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zaslavski, Anton (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Saratov , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union