Daniel Bedingfield

Daniel Bedingfield captured a very specific early-2000s moment that I still find endearing. His debut, Gotta Get thru This, produced three UK number ones and sold over a million and a half copies, and his blend of garage-flavoured production with a soulful, vulnerable voice felt genuinely ahead of the curve. There is something charming about a New Zealand-raised talent storming the British charts on instinct and emotion. I am fond of artists who define a brief, bright cultural window like he did, and I hope he is still writing and singing somewhere, on his own terms.

Name (English)

Daniel Bedingfield

Name (Japanese)

ダニエル・ベディングフィールド

Reading

だにえる・べでぃんぐふぃーるど

Born

December 3, 1979 (age 46)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Goat

Origin

New Zealand

Occupation

singer-songwriter / singer / musician

• Official sitehttp://www.danielbedingfield.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/danielbedingfld/
• Xhttps://x.com/DanielBedingfld
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Bedingfield
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362251

Tags

• singer-songwriter
• singer
• musician

Last updated

2026-06-18

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.