Zedd
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.
Father?
https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=132774
If so, his paternal grandfather was named Dmitri.
At least based on pictures, his father doesn’t look nearly that old to have been born in the early 1940s (?).
I didn’t see any age for him there. Oh well, I tried.
Added there based on a poor source. I’ll try and remove it.
Where did Zedd say that he is of part Jewish descent?
What’s wrong with being Jewish? Looks like somebody is jealous and hard-pressed.
He is definitely an Ashkenazi Jew from Russia.
He knows of the Jew hate so I can see why he’d hide it.
yes, he’s quite dark for a ‘russian’
Well, whaddya know…