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Deadmau5 is a Canadian electronic DJ/dance artist and record producer

InformationDetail
BirthdayJanuary 5, 1981
NationalityCanadian
FamousMusicians, DJs
SpousesKat Von D
SiblingsChris Zimmerman, Jennifer Zimmerman
Known asJoel Thomas Zimmerman, Halcyon441, Karma K, testpilot
Founder / Co-Founder
  • Mau5trap
Birth PlaceNiagara Falls, Canada
Height175
GenderMale
FatherRodney Thomas Zimmerman
MotherNancy Zimmerman
Net Worth$45 million as of Mar 17,2017
Sun SignCapricorn
Born inNiagara Falls, Canada
Famous asDJ
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Who is Deadmau5?

Deadmau5 is a Canadian electronic DJ/dance artist and record producer. Blessed with excellent skills in electronics, he displays a variety of styles in his works, and uses different forms of electronic music. He has worked with several famous DJs and producers on a number of releases. Nominated for the Grammy Awards six times, deadmau5 is well known for his trademark helmet and popular live shows. In the initial years of his career, he had created the buzz for his brand of electronic music on the indie dance site ‘Beatport’, and his works were included in compilation albums and DJ playlists. He then created ‘deadmau5.com’ and started uploading songs to SectionZ from 2002. This dance-music superstar describes himself as being very unsocial with a “huge anxiety disorder”, and is the happiest when left all alone. Best known for the dance music hits ‘Ghosts 'n' Stuff,’ ‘I Remember,’ and ‘Strobe’, he has tried his hand at everything in the electronic spectrum. He has been often described by the media as an incredibly humble and loyal individual, who just wants to do his best for his fans.

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Childhood & Early Life

Deadmau5 was born as Joel Thomas Zimmerman on January 5, 1981 in Ontario, Canada to Nancy, who is a visual artist, and Rodney Thomas Zimmerman, a General Motors plant worker. His older sister is Jennifer, and younger brother is Chris.

He graduated from Westlane Secondary School in Ontario. He received his first keyboard as a Christmas gift when he was a teenager.

Career

Deadmau5 started his career in animation and web designing. Later, he entered the music world as a DJ, touring Europe and South America for gigs with his own limited resources.

He also worked with an online music licensing company as a programmer. He adopted the name deadmau5, as he found a dead mouse in his computer when he was a teen.

His debut studio album ‘Get Scraped’, released on July 26, 2005, represented his early musical style. The album had two different releases—a limited CD release and a demo CD release. Two tracks ‘FlashTV’ and ‘Messages from Nowhere’ were removed from the digital release. He re-released ‘Messages from Nowhere’ on his compilation album ‘Stuff i used to do’ in 2017.

Play Digital released his second studio album ‘Vexillology’ on November 6, 2006. It was re-released on May 11, 2015 by Play Records.

’Project 56,’ a compilation album, was released on February 19, 2008. The album had some tracks that had also been featured on the ‘Get Scraped’ album. These tracks were ‘Bored of Canada’, ‘Nice Try Kiddo’, ‘I Forget’, and ‘Just Before 8bit’.

In the US, he collaborated with DJ and record producer Kaskade for the single ‘Move for Me’, which reached No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart. He also collaborated with Kaskade for ‘I Remember’ and with Rob Swire for ‘Ghosts 'n' Stuff’, and both reached No. 1 on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart.

He started his own record label, mau5trap, in 2007. Mau5trap, along with Ministry of Sound and Ultra Records, released ‘Random Album Title’, his third studio album, on September 2, 2008. It was his breakthrough album that included the popular singles ‘Faxing Berlin’, ‘I Remember’, and ‘Not Exactly’. The album peaked at No. 31 in the UK Top 75 Albums chart. ‘Random Album Title’ also had a digital release in the US, Europe, and the UK.

Ultra Records and mau5trap released his fourth studio album, ‘For Lack of a Better Name’, in the US and Canada on September 22, 2009. Virgin Records released it internationally on October 5, 2009. The album features the single ‘Hi Friend!’, a collaboration with MC Flipside, and ‘Ghosts 'n' Stuff’ a collaboration with Rob Swire. It also includes the song ‘Strobe’, which was critically acclaimed.

Deadmau5 has been featured in a number of video games. He is found in a playable avatar in ‘DJ Hero 2’, a video game released in October 2010. He is featured in several tracks as well, including a mix of ‘Ghosts 'n' Stuff’ with Lady Gaga's ‘Just Dance.’

His fifth studio album ‘4×4=12’ was released internationally on December 6, 2010. The album's title refers to a miscalculation deadmau5 had made on his Ustream channel. The album featured popular singles like ‘Animal Rights’, ‘Some Chords’, ‘Sofi Needs a Ladder’, and ‘Raise Your Weapon’. In 2011, he released two non-album singles ‘Aural Psynapse’ and ‘HR 8938 Cephei’.

His sixth studio album ‘> album title goes here <’ was released on September 21, 2012. It included five singles, ‘Maths’, ‘Professional Griefers’, ‘The Veldt’, ‘Channel 42’ and ‘Telemiscommunications’.

In November 2013, deadmau5 removed three years worth of music from his SoundCloud account, and uploaded an EP of seven piano sonatas titled ‘7’. In the same month, he left Ultra Records and signed with Astralwerks.

His seventh studio album ‘while1<2’ was released on June 17, 2014 by mau5trap and Astralwerks in the US and Canada and by Virgin EMI Records internationally. Four singles from the album—‘Avaritia’, ‘Infra Turbo Pigcart Racer’, ‘Seeya’, and ‘Phantoms Can't Hang’, were released before the album. In the same year, he was also featured in ‘Goat Simulator,’ a video game. His music has also been included in some video game titles.

In October 2015 he left Astralwerks. In December he announced that he may end his career as deadmau5, and start something new. He even deleted his Twitter and Facebook accounts. However, after a few days, he reopened his Twitter account and apologized to his fans, stating that he was suffering from depression, and would return to music after the New Year.

On May 27, 2016, the single ‘Snowcone’, was released as a digital download. His eighth studio album ‘W:/2016ALBUM/’was released on December 2, 2016, and it included several tracks.

In early 2017, he released a compilation of his earlier works from 1998 to 2007, titled ‘Stuff i used to do.’ The limited version of the album featured 13 tracks instead of the 16 he had announced earlier. Some of these tracks were ‘Messages From Nowhere’, ‘HaxPigMeow’, ‘Long Walk Off a Short Pier’, and ‘Creep’.

Major Works

His single ‘Move for Me’ reached No. 1 on Billboard magazine's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart. The singles ‘I Remember’ and ‘Ghosts 'n' Stuff’, also reached No. 1 on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart. His albums ‘For Lack of a Better Name’ and ‘4×4=12’ were critically acclaimed.

Awards & Achievements

Deadmau5 won the Beatport Music Awards for Best Electro House Artist and Best Progressive House Artist in 2008 and 2009. He has won the Juno Awards thrice.

He bagged DJ Award for Best Electro House DJ in 2008, 2010, and 2011. He won the International Dance Music Awards thrice and was nominated for Grammy Awards six times.

Personal Life & Legacy

Deadmau5 got engaged to tattoo artist Kat Von D in December 2012, but they called it quits in June 2013.

In March 2014, the Walt Disney Company requested the US Patent and Trademark Office to investigate deadmau5’s application to register mau5head emblem as a trademark, as it resembles the figure of Mickey Mouse. Disney stated that the logo creates confusion as it is "nearly identical in appearance, connotation, and overall commercial impression."

In 2014, deadmau5 purchased a $5 million worth house in Campbellville area of Milton, Ontario.

He is a video game enthusiast, and whenever he wants to take a break from work, he plays video games to relax his mind.

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Deadmau5 biography timelines

  • // 5th Jan 1981
    Deadmau5 was born as Joel Thomas Zimmerman on January 5, 1981 in Ontario, Canada to Nancy, who is a visual artist, and Rodney Thomas Zimmerman, a General Motors plant worker. His older sister is Jennifer, and younger brother is Chris.
  • // 26th Jul 2005 To 2017
    His debut studio album ‘Get Scraped’, released on July 26, 2005, represented his early musical style. The album had two different releases—a limited CD release and a demo CD release. Two tracks ‘FlashTV’ and ‘Messages from Nowhere’ were removed from the digital release. He re-released ‘Messages from Nowhere’ on his compilation album ‘Stuff i used to do’ in 2017.
  • // 6th Nov 2006 To 11th May 2015
    Play Digital released his second studio album ‘Vexillology’ on November 6, 2006. It was re-released on May 11, 2015 by Play Records.
  • // 2007 To 2nd Sep 2008
    He started his own record label, mau5trap, in 2007. Mau5trap, along with Ministry of Sound and Ultra Records, released ‘Random Album Title’, his third studio album, on September 2, 2008. It was his breakthrough album that included the popular singles ‘Faxing Berlin’, ‘I Remember’, and ‘Not Exactly’. The album peaked at No. 31 in the UK Top 75 Albums chart. ‘Random Album Title’ also had a digital release in the US, Europe, and the UK.
  • // 2008 To 2009
    Deadmau5 won the Beatport Music Awards for Best Electro House Artist and Best Progressive House Artist in 2008 and 2009. He has won the Juno Awards thrice.
  • // 19th Feb 2008
    ’Project 56,’ a compilation album, was released on February 19, 2008. The album had some tracks that had also been featured on the ‘Get Scraped’ album. These tracks were ‘Bored of Canada’, ‘Nice Try Kiddo’, ‘I Forget’, and ‘Just Before 8bit’.
  • // 22nd Sep 2009 To 5th Oct 2009
    Ultra Records and mau5trap released his fourth studio album, ‘For Lack of a Better Name’, in the US and Canada on September 22, 2009. Virgin Records released it internationally on October 5, 2009. The album features the single ‘Hi Friend!’, a collaboration with MC Flipside, and ‘Ghosts 'n' Stuff’ a collaboration with Rob Swire. It also includes the song ‘Strobe’, which was critically acclaimed.
  • // Oct 2010
    Deadmau5 has been featured in a number of video games. He is found in a playable avatar in ‘DJ Hero 2’, a video game released in October 2010. He is featured in several tracks as well, including a mix of ‘Ghosts 'n' Stuff’ with Lady Gaga's ‘Just Dance.’
  • // 6th Dec 2010 To 2011
    His fifth studio album ‘4×4=12’ was released internationally on December 6, 2010. The album's title refers to a miscalculation deadmau5 had made on his Ustream channel. The album featured popular singles like ‘Animal Rights’, ‘Some Chords’, ‘Sofi Needs a Ladder’, and ‘Raise Your Weapon’. In 2011, he released two non-album singles ‘Aural Psynapse’ and ‘HR 8938 Cephei’.
  • // 21st Sep 2012
    His sixth studio album ‘> album title goes here

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Deadmau5's FAQ

  • What is Deadmau5 birthday?

    Deadmau5 was born at 1981-01-05

  • Where is Deadmau5's birth place?

    Deadmau5 was born in Niagara Falls, Canada

  • What is Deadmau5 nationalities?

    Deadmau5's nationalities is Canadian

  • Who is Deadmau5 spouses?

    Deadmau5's spouses is Kat Von D

  • Who is Deadmau5 siblings?

    Deadmau5's siblings is Chris Zimmerman, Jennifer Zimmerman

  • Which company or organization was founded by Deadmau5?

    Deadmau5 was the founder/co-founder of Mau5trap

  • How tall is Deadmau5?

    Deadmau5's height is 175

  • Who is Deadmau5's father?

    Deadmau5's father is Rodney Thomas Zimmerman

  • Who is Deadmau5's mother?

    Deadmau5's mother is Nancy Zimmerman

  • What is Deadmau5's sun sign?

    Deadmau5 is Capricorn

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    Deadmau5 is famouse as DJ

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