Daniel Merriweather (born 17 February 1982, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian R&B singer/songwriter. After several successful collaborations with artists such as Mark Ronson, he released his official debut album, Love & War, in June 2009. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number two.
Merriweather's first commercially released recording was a guest appearance on the track "All I Want" from Australian dance act Disco Montego's self-titled album in 2002. This was followed by a guest appearance on Mark Ronson's Here Comes the Fuzz album ("She's Got Me") in 2003.
His debut solo single "City Rules" (produced by Ronson and featuring raps from New York MC Saigon) followed in early 2004 with the aforementioned "She's Got Me" released as its follow-up. While neither song had any huge commercial success, both songs became favourites in Australian clubs and urban music circles; and won APRA and ARIA awards. with "City Rules" also getting some airplay on the major Australian commercial radio stations FOX FM (Melbourne)/2Day FM and B105.
In 2005 he co-wrote and co-produced much of Phrase's debut album Talk With Force; also lending vocals to three tracks including the single "Catch Phrase". A 2006/7 collaboration with Ronson (a version of The Smiths' "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before"), had huge commercial success in the UK where it was released as the lead-off single for Ronson's album "Version" (reaching number two on the chart).
Merriweather's first commercially available album Love & War was released in June 2009, reaching #2 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was preceded by the singles "Change" and "Red", which both made the Top 10 on the UK Singles Chart.
Merriweather cites Stevie Wonder, Prince, Jeff Buckley and Herbie Hancock as his major influences.
"Impossible" is the third single by Daniel Merriweather taken from his second album Love & War. The single was released on August 17, 2009.It was produced by Mark Ronson and released on the Columbia record label.
The song debuted in the on the UK Singles Chart at number sixty-seven, after the release of the digital single, becoming Merriweather's lowest charting single from Love & War.
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