Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Powter was in his mid 30s when he and his go-to hat skyrocketed to fame with his 2005 hit ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Twenty years ago, B.C.'s Daniel Powter wrote the song Bad Day, which quickly became one of the ...

LOS ANGELES -- The smash hit "Bad Day" should have been a good thing for Daniel Powter: The upbeat tune put Powter on the musical map. It not only became the biggest hit of his career, but it was also ...

If you take the term "one-hit wonder" absolutely literally, no-one epitomises it more than Daniel Powter. In the UK, at least, he has quite literally had just one chart smash. But what a debut single ...

NEW YORK - As far as one-hit wonders go, Daniel Powter is king of them all — for this decade, at least. Powter, whose hit "Bad Day" reigned on top of the Billboard pop charts for five weeks in 2006, ...

NO DOUBT WHEN singer-songwriter and keyboardist Daniel Powter drifts toward retirement decades from now, he'll look back on this self-titled album as the source of a cushy lifetime annuity. After all, ...