1. Anton Zaslavski, known professionally as Zedd, is a German record producer and DJ.
48 Facts About Zedd
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Zedd guest appeared on Ariana Grande's 2014 single "Break Free", which peaked at number four.
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Zedd released his third studio album, Telos, on 30 August 2024.
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Zedd grew up in Dansenberg, Kaiserslautern, Germany, after his family moved there when Anton was three years old.
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Zedd reportedly is a classically trained musician, the son of two musicians.
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Zedd's father, Igor Zaslavski, is a guitarist and schoolteacher, and his mother is a piano teacher.
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Zedd began playing the piano at the age of four and drums at twelve years old.
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Zedd has an older brother, Arkadi, and a younger half-brother, Daniel.
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Zedd has since produced remixes of well-known artists, including Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, the Black-Eyed Peas, Enhypen, Twice, Madeon, Porter Robinson, Krewella, Galantis, Deadmau5, Blackpink, Periphery and others.
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Zedd's remix of Lady Gaga's track "Born This Way" appeared on the special edition of her third studio album, Born This Way.
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Zedd went on to release "Slam the Door" and "Shotgun" with OWSLA before departing to release his debut album in 2013.
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In 2012, Zedd signed with Interscope Records and released his debut single from the label, "Spectrum", with lyrics and vocals by Matthew Koma.
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Zedd then produced the Eva Simons song, "I Don't Like You", which was released on Interscope.
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Zedd produced and co-wrote the third single "Beauty and a Beat" with Max Martin for Justin Bieber's third studio album, Believe.
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On 12 October 2012, Zedd released his debut studio album, Clarity, with "Shave It" as the album's first single and "Spectrum" as its second single.
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Zedd concluded 2013 with his first worldwide tour, selling out venues across 5 continents.
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Zedd worked with Japanese singer Namie Amuro and produced her promotional single, "Heaven" for her album Feel.
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On 23 February 2015, Zedd released his collaboration featuring Selena Gomez, "I Want You to Know".
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Zedd released his second single, "Beautiful Now" featuring Jon Bellion, on 13 May 2015.
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Zedd performed at the 2015 CMT Music Awards with Lady Antebellum.
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On 26 February 2016, Zedd released the single "Candyman" alongside Aloe Blacc.
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On 15 July 2016, singer Hailee Steinfeld and producer duo Grey released a song featuring Zedd titled "Starving", which peaked at No 5 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 and No 5 on the UK Singles Chart.
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Zedd released a collaboration with Riot Games for the 2016 League of Legends eSports championship, Worlds, titled "Ignite" on 26 September 2016.
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Zedd followed up the release of the song with a "Finals Remix" a month later.
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On 15 December 2016, Zedd released a remix of DJ Snake's hit song "Let Me Love You".
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On 23 February 2017, Zedd released his collaboration along with Alessia Cara, "Stay" which debuted at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 and 33 on the UK Singles Chart.
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On 6 July 2017, Zedd released his single with Liam Payne, "Get Low".
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On 23 January 2018, Zedd released his single with Maren Morris and Grey, "The Middle", which rose to No 1 on the Billboard Pop Songs radio chart and peaked at No 5 spot on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Zedd was tapped by National Geographic to make a song inspired by the documentary series One Strange Rock and released a video to the song, titled "One Strange Rock" on his YouTube channel on 9 April 2018.
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On 17 July 2018, Zedd released his single with Elley Duhe, "Happy Now".
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On 27 September 2018, Zedd released his remix of the Shawn Mendes single "Lost in Japan".
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On 14 February 2019, Zedd released his collaboration with Katy Perry, "365", along with the song's music video.
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Zedd performed at Coachella on the main stage 21 April 2019, bringing out Katy Perry, Alessia Cara, and Maren Morris.
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On 1 May 2019, Zedd announced the Orbit Tour, which kicks off in the fall of 2019.
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On 31 May 2019, Katy Perry released her single "Never Really Over" in which Zedd is a producer and a songwriter on the track.
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On 27 September 2019, Zedd released the single "Good Thing" with Kehlani.
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On 10 October 2019, Zedd tweeted that he had been "permanently banned" from China due to his liking of a tweet related to South Park, an American adult animated sitcom which had been banned in the country several days prior as a result of the episode "Band in China".
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On 16 July 2020, Zedd released the single "Funny" with Jasmine Thompson, along with the song's music video.
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On 23 October 2020, Zedd released the single "Inside Out" with Griff.
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On 13 August 2021, Zedd performed at Musikfest, with the opening acts Gabi DeMartino and Dot.
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On 28 January 2022, Zedd released the song "You've Got to Let Go If You Want to Be Free" with the English electronic duo Disclosure.
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On 20 May 2022, Zedd played at EDC Las Vegas, which was live streamed.
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On 12 August 2022, Zedd started a commercial collaboration with computer peripherals company HyperX and became its "Global Brand Ambassador".
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Nine years after releasing True Colors, Zedd announced his third album, Telos, which was released on 30 August 2024.
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Zedd was offered the job of composing the song as he is an open fan of the Dragon Ball franchise, while the lyrics are written by Yukinojo Mori.
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Zedd briefly dated singer and actress Selena Gomez in 2015.
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Zedd revealed that he hated the media attention surrounding it.
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Zedd speaks Russian, German, and English, as well as basic French.