Deadmau5


Joel Thomas Zimmerman , known professionally as deadmau5 , is a Canadian progressive house music producer and performer from Toronto, Ontario.

Zimmerman was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. His mother, Nancy , is a visual artist, and his father, Rodney Thomas Rod Zimmerman, is a General Motors plant worker. He has two siblings, Jennifer and Chris . His ancestry includes German, Swiss, and English. He received his first keyboard for Christmas when he was a teenager. His music career began in the mid 1990s, with a chiptune and demoscene movementsinfluenced sound with the Impulse Tracker. Zimmerman graduated from Westlane Secondary School in Niagara Falls. He then worked with an online music licensing company and as a programmer. He adopted the name Deadmau5, which referred to a dead mouse he found in his computer.

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