Latest Release
- 4 OCT 2024
- 3 Songs
- The Middle - Single · 2018
- Stay - Single · 2017
- My Everything · 2014
- Clarity · 2012
- Starving (feat. Zedd) - Single · 2015
- Starving (feat. Zedd) [Acoustic] - Single · 2016
- Make You Say - Single · 2022
- True Colors · 2015
- Get Low - Single · 2017
- True Colors · 2015
Essential Albums
- Clarity begins with a ticking clock that’s joined by a gentle melody and female vocalist LiZ. Midway through the track, it explodes into a house-inflected, pulsating heater that segues into the staccato, Baltimore club music-influenced “Shave It Up”. OneRepublic vocalist Ryan Tedder injects some falsetto-brushed soul into the synth-dappled “Lost at Sea”, while “Fall Into the Sky” welcomes Ellie Goulding into the fold for a hyperactive workout.
Albums
- 2015
Artist Playlists
- Majestic electro-house and euphoric pop hooks from the prodigious EDM superstar.
- A winning blend of high-tech imagery and winking charm.
Compilations
Appears On
- Hailee Steinfeld & Grey
- Hailee Steinfeld & Grey
- Hailee Steinfeld & Grey
- The producer on his album Telos.
- The artists talk to Zane about their song "Make You Say."
- The artists play their single "Inside Out."
- Zedd and Jasmine Thompson talk about their song, “Funny."
- FaceTimes with The Kid LAROI, The Chicks, KYLE, Zedd, and more.
- The two artists get into "Funny," plus Zane calls IDK.
- Anna chats with Sleepy Tom, GTA, and Party Favor.
More To See
About Zedd
In 2012, when Zedd released his debut album, Clarity, he had a clarification of his own to make: “#CLARITY is all about the music,” he tweeted. “The ‘M’ in ‘EDM’.” It was a crucial distinction for an artist who had come up through rave’s ranks in record time. The Russian-German producer, born Anton Zaslavski in 1989, got his start in electronic music in 2010 by winning a pair of remix contests—prior to that, he’d played guitar in a post-hardcore band, Dioramic. He came flying off the blocks soon after with remixes of Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”. But while his early singles, like 2011’s “Shave It”, were booming, laser-strafed electro-house anthems in a jagged style that some fans dubbed “complextro”, it soon became clear that those buzzing, fizzing synths were secondary to his real interest: songwriting. His second album, 2015’s True Colors, traded festival fireworks for sleek choruses, clever chord changes, and featured guests like Logic, Troye Sivan and Selena Gomez, and since then he has continued to prove his range. “Stay”, a 2017 track with Alessia Cara, flips trap drums and silky vocoders into a bewitchingly skeletal (and devastatingly wistful) form, while 2018’s “Happy Now” trickles acoustic guitars over a twinkling music-box beat and a plaintive chorus that captures his music’s deceptive emotional pull. And then there’s 2018’s “The Middle”, a song Zedd tried out with a number of heavy-hitting vocalists (Carly Rae Jepsen, Demi Lovato, Camila Cabello) before finally going with Maren Morris, a country singer little known in pop-EDM circles. Splitting the difference between Morris’ grit and his own silicon sheen, Zedd once again proved his versatility—as well as his star-making instincts.
- HOMETOWN
- Saratov, Russia
- BORN
- 2 September 1989
- GENRE
- Dance