We study Szegö's theorem for a uniform algebra. In particular, we do it for the disc algebra or the bidisc algebra.

We prove that if the $(1,1)$-current of integration on an analytic subvariety $V\subset D$ satisfies the uniform Blaschke condition, then $V$ is the zero set of a holomorphic function $f$ such that $\log |f|$ is a function of bounded mean oscillation in $bD$. The domain $D$ is assumed to be smoothly bounded and of finite d'Angelo type. The proof amounts to non-isotropic estimates for a solution to the $\overline{\partial}$-equation for Carleson measures.

It is shown that given any sequence of automorphisms $(\phi_k)_k$ of the unit ball $\bn$ of $\cn$ such that $\|\phi_k(0)\|$ tends to $1$, there exists an inner function $I$ such that the family of ``non-Euclidean translates" $(I\circ\phi_k)_k$ is locally uniformly dense in the unit ball of $H^\infty(\bn)$.

It is shown that there exists an inner function $I$ defined on the unit ball ${\bf B}^n$ of ${\mathbb C}^n$ such that each function holomorphic on ${\bf B}^n$ and bounded by $1$ can be approximated by ``non-Euclidean translates" of $I$.