Zedd

iHeartRadio Music Festival Las Vegas 2013 - Day 2

Zedd in 2013, photo by Prphotos.com

Birth Name: Anton Zaslavski

Place of Birth: Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)

Date of Birth: 2 September, 1989

Ethnicity: Russian Jewish

Zedd is a Russian-born German record producer, DJ, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. He is a Grammy Award-winner. His songs include “Clarity,” “Stay the Night,” “I Want You to Know,” “Stay,” and “The Middle,” a co-credit on the remix “Lost in Japan,” and as a featured artist on “Break Free” and “Starving.”

Zedd was born in Saratov, Russia, then in the USSR, to musicians, Marina Vladimirovna Zaslavskaya and Igor Zaslavski. He moved with his family to Germany when he was three. He grew up in Dansenberg, Kaiserslautern, there. Zedd speaks fluent Russian, German, English, and a little French. His stage name is from the English pronunciation of the letter “Z.”

Zedd has said:

I grew up in Germany and my family is Jewish. Trust me. I know what a dictator is.

Most Russians who live in present-day Germany are of Jewish or ethnic German background.

He is a classically trained musician, and began playing the piano and drums at four. In 2002, he joined the German band Dioramic, signed by Lifeforce Records. His interest in producing electronic music was piqued after hearing † by French electronic duo Justice. He began producing electronic music in 2009.

One of Zedd’s grandmothers’ names is Margarita.

37 Responses

  1. bearboy says:

    No I wasn’t suggesting that. Sorry meant to ask if his father or grandfather was Jewish.

  2. follers says:

    How do you know he’s not Jewish? Since his family are Russians living in Germany, he would pretty much have to be of either Jewish or ethnic German descent, and I doubt he’s German. It isn’t trolling to say he’s Jewish, although they don’t seem to have a source.

  3. J420 says:

    Many Mongolians and blonde haired and blue eyed, but are they White? no. Melanesians can have blonde hair too, but are they White as well? no. Genetic mutations like being fair haired and fair eyed has nothing to do with being more White, at all.

  4. J420 says:

    Russians are definitely not the Whitest Europeans. Lighter features has nothing to do with being more White. That is called Nordicism. Europeans are of many different hues and are just as White as each other.

  5. lelo4 says:

    probably jew, doesnt look russian AT ALL. too dark.

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