Zak Waters featured on Madeon's 2012 multi-platinum single "The City", to positive acclaim, charting at number 20 on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart and number 16 on the UK Dance Chart.
27 Facts About Zak Waters
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Zak Waters released his debut studio album, Lip Service, on September 9,2013.
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Zak Waters collaborated on Adventure Club's single "Fade", which became certified gold by the RIAA.
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Zak Waters collaborated on other popular singles including Adventure Club and David Solano's "Unleash " and Alex Gaudino and Manufactured Superstars's 2015 single "Lights Go Out".
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Zak Waters appeared on the American songwriting competition series Songland in 2020.
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Zak Waters has collaborated and produced for numerous other music artists such as Betty Who, Breathe Carolina, Nathan Sykes, Superfruit and JoJo, among others.
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Zak Waters was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
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Zak Waters first started writing and recording music with the pop rock group Blueskyreality, who signed to Universal Republic Records in 2008.
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Zak Waters released his debut single "Unstoppable" on June 21,2011.
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Zak Waters wrote, recorded, and mixed his debut EP album, New Normal, with friend and record producer Jarrad Kritzstein.
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Zak Waters released the single "Skinny Dippin' in the Deep End" on June 18,2012.
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In October 2012, Zak Waters released a remix of Adam Lambert's single "Trespassing".
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Zak Waters released another solo single, "Runnin' Around", accompanied with its music video, on January 22,2013.
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Zak Waters collaborated with the electronic music duo Candyland and released the single "Not Coming Down" on July 8,2013, through Beatport.
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On January 28,2014, Zak Waters released the single "Over You".
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Zak Waters released his first EDM-produced single "Out Of My Head", featuring Codi Caraco, on April 17,2014.
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On December 31,2014, Zak Waters released the single "By the End Of the Night".
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Alex Gaudino released the collaborative single, "Lights Go Out", featuring Zak Waters and Manufactured Superstars on April 18,2015.
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Zak Waters co-wrote and produced American singer Liz Huett's single "H8U", which was released on October 27,2017.
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Zak Waters toured as support on Betty Who's Party in the Valley Tour from February 24 to March 31,2018, and on SUP3RFRUIT's Future Friends tour from May 23 to June 13,2018.
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Zak Waters produced Betty Who's single "Taste", which was released on May 18,2018.
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Zak Waters released another single, entitled "New Fire", featuring American singer MarcLo, on July 27,2018.
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Zak Waters had recording sessions with Betty Who, Scott Hoying, and Rozzi Crane throughout the summer of 2018, resulting in the single "Lose Us" by Rozzi featuring Scott Hoying, released on October 12,2018, which was produced and co-written by Zak Waters.
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In March 2020, it was revealed that Zak Waters would serve as a songwriter on the NBC's songwriting competition TV series, Songland.
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In May 2020, Zak Waters appeared on NBC's Songland where he performed his original track "Bad Things", to which he later uploaded a stripped-down version on YouTube.
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Zak Waters appeared on the seventh episode of NBC's songwriting competition show Songland, performing his original song "Bad Things", which progressed him into the top-three.
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OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder produced and co-wrote the new version of "Bad Things" to which Zak Waters performed on the television show.