OneRepublic — American the pop rock group of Colorado Springs, which popularity has brought a single «Apologize», become in the USA three times platinum and reached the third place in charts of Great Britain on November, 11th, 2007. The remix on a song has been included in an album of Timbalend «Shock Value» and in debut album OneRepublic «Dreaming Out Loud».

The group has been based in 2002 to Colorado Springs by vocalist Rajan Tedder and its school friend Zak Filkins playing a guitar. Initially the group was called Republic. Soon the group has got over to Los Angeles and was added with keyboard player Drju Brown, bass player Tim Myers and drummer Eddi Fisher. Having signed in 2003 the contract with label Columbia Records, the group has started working over the debut album. The name has been changed on OneRepublic as the former name was already used by other collectives. In parallel Rajan Tedder worked on known producer Timbalend, wrote songs for various executors, participated in work on the album of Pol Okenfold A Lively Mind nominated for "Grammy".