| Capital: | € 35 million |
| Age: | 30th |
| Born: | 09/02/1989 |
| Country of origin: | Soviet Union |
| Source of wealth: | DJ |
| Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
Anton Igorevich Zaslavsky (born September 2, 1989 in Saratov) is a German DJ and a music producer of Russian origin, known as ZEDD scene name. Zedd is the winner of the Grammy Music Award in 2014 for the “Best Dance Record” appointment for the “Clarity” song, which was made with the British singers foxes. In 2014, Forbes won the eighth place in the top 10 of the world’s highest DJs with $ 21 million.
He writes music, mainly in the genus Electro House, but is not limited within reach. His compositions also include pieces in the progressive house of genres, Complextro and Brostep. In 2016, the DJ was ranked 35th in a British magazine note and 29th in 2017 in the “Top 100” list of the best DJs.
Early life
Anton Zaslavsky was born in Saratov in a family of musicians and received classical musical education, which began studying music in the piano class at the age of four. At the age of three, Anton and his family moved as refugees of Jewish nationality to the German city of Kaiserslautern, where he passed his childhood and his youth.
He started playing drums at the age of twelve. Together with his brother Arkady, he became a member of the Rock Dioramic band, founded in Kaiserslautern in 2002. Seven years later, he developed an interest in electronic music after hearing the album of the French Justice Electro Punk Duo . In 2009, Anton Zaslavsky started writing electronic music himself.
Career
In 2011 Anton Zaslavsky published the single “dovregubben”, written in the style of the electro house. This composition immediately hoisted at the top of the list of music. Anton Zaslavsky is currently living in Los Angeles. He has already worked with stars like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Skrilex, Halex Williams, Selena Gomez, Kescha, Ariana Grande, Sean Mendes, Troy Sivan, Liam Payne and others.
In 2013, Zedd produced three songs from Lady Gaga’s new Artpop album: “Aura”, “Guy” and “Donatella”. In January 2018, he recorded the title “The Middle” (with the participation of Maren Morris and Gray), which he performed at the Grammy ceremony (2018).
On February 23, 2015, Zedd released his collaboration with Selena Gomez, “I want you to know.” The song was co-written by Zedd, Ryan Tedder de Onerepublic and Kevin Drew. The song has become the “song Party Election” at Teen Choice Awards, making it number 1 on the Billboard Dance / Electronics Songs and Number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has been sold in the United States for more One million platinum copies awarded.
Zedd released his second single “Beautiful Now” with Jon Bellion on May 13, 2015. The album “True Colors” was released two days later. The album reached number 1 on the Billboard Dance / Electronic Albums and was registered on various other international paintings. The third single of the album “Papercut” with Troye Sivan was released on July 17, 2015.
On May 22 and 23 he led the Music and Arts Counterpoint Festival in collaboration with The Roots and Widespread Panic. Zedd appeared with Lady Antebellum at 2015 CMT Music Awards. Together, they played a mashup of their songs “Long Love Plan” and “Beautiful Now”.
His second world tour, True Colors Tour lasted from August 2015, travel to Asia, North America and Europe. Zedd was included in the 2016 Coachlla range. In 2017, he organized a concert for the benefit of the American Civil Liberties Union. July 15, 2016, Singer and Hailee Steinfeld Duo Gray producer posted a song titled “Starving” by Zedd, which was number 5 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 and number 5 on the British simple cards.
On February 23, 2017, Zedd released his collaboration with Alessia Cara, “Stay”, who made his debut at the Billboard Hot 100 and # 33 on the UK Singles Chart. On July 6, 2017, Zedd released his single with Liam Payne, “Get Low”. On January 23, 2018, Zedd released his single with Maren Morris and Gray, “The Middle”, which climbed the number 1 on the Billboard Pop Songs radio records and peaked at the number 5 of the Hot Billboard 100.
Career highlights
Zedd was operated by National Geographic to produce a song inspired by the One Strange Rock Documentary Series and published a video entitled “A strange rock” on his channel YouTube on April 9, 2018. On July 17, 2018, Zedd published his single with Elley Duhé, “happy now”. The video of music support was published later on August 23, 2018.
On September 27, 2018, Zedd released his Shawn Single Mendes remix “lost in Japan”. This single quickly increased to the first 40 graphics and was the first collaboration between the two artists. They carried out the song at the American Music Awards 2018 on October 10, 2018, then played it again at the Secret Victoria Fashion Fair on November 8, 2018. The video of music that accompanies it was published on November 9, 2018 after the Two representations.