Anton Zaslavski, known professionally as Zedd, is a German record producer and DJ. He grew up and began his musical career in Kaiserslautern, Germany. His stage name, Zedd, was derived from zed, the English pronunciation, barring American English, for the first letter of his surname, Z. He rose to mainstream success with his 2012 single "Clarity", which peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and won Best Dance Recording at the 56th Grammy Awards. It served as the third single for his debut studio album of the same name (2012), of which its deluxe edition spawned the US top 20 single "Stay the Night".
Zedd says "it doesn't matter whether I win or not, just the fact that I can share the space with artists who I wouldn't be here..