Daniel Paul Merriweather，澳大利亚R&B男歌手兼创作人，1982年生于墨尔本。在与众多艺人（例如Mark Ronson）有过多次成功的合作之后，他于2009年6月发表了个人首张专辑Love and War，并于发行首周登上全英榜第二把交椅。 Merriweather第一次商业演出是担当澳大利亚舞曲二人组Disco Montego2002年同名专辑单曲All I Want的客座表演嘉宾。此后的2003年又客座出演DJ、制作人Mark Ronson的专辑Here Comes the Fuzz（具体是歌曲She's Got Me）。他个人首支单曲City Rules（Roson担任制作人，美国饶舌歌手Saigon担任说唱部分）以前面提及的单曲She's Got Me的续作身份于2004年初发表。尽管两首歌曲在商业上都没取得巨大成功，不过却成为澳大利亚舞厅的大热门，赢得APRA（澳大利亚表演权力联合会）和ARIA（澳大利亚唱片工业联合会）的多项大奖。2005年，他合作创作和制作了好友Phrase首张专辑Talk With Force的大部分歌曲，并献声其中三首。2006-2007年他与Roson合作的作品（The Smith版的Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before）在英国取得商业上的巨大成功——此曲成为Ronson英国版专辑Version的首发歌（专辑最高排名全英榜亚军）。 Love and War是Daniel发表的首张录音室专辑（虽曾在2006年录制了他的第一张专辑The Fifth Season，但至今从未发表），已于2009年6月1日透过马林唱片/环球（澳大利亚）和Allido/哥伦比亚/RCA（英国）发表，Mark Ronson担任专辑制作人。由于Change和Red两首单曲的成功（都打进全英榜前10名），促使该专辑以首周31,500张的发行量坐上当周全英专辑榜的第二把交椅。

by David Jeffries
Influenced by mavericks like Prince, Stevie Wonder, and Jeff Buckley, Australia's Daniel Merriweather is a musical free spirit himself, although he's most closely associated with R&B. The smooth crooner first came to most music fans' attention in 2003 when he made an appearance on Mark Ronson's genre-blending album Here Comes the Fuzz. Combining smooth soul and social commentary with rapper Saigon as his guest, Merriweather's debut single, "City Rules," appeared a year later. Damon Dash threw the cut on one of his mixtapes, introducing Merriweather to the U.S. urban audience, while numerous U.K. publications pegged it as the single of the week. In 2007 his career kicked into high gear worldwide when he hooked up with Ronson again, mashing the Smiths' "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before" with the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" for the single "Stop Me," which landed on Ronson's album Version. Late that year it was announced that Merriweather's debut album would be released in early 2008.