Skrillex (DJ) – Overview, Biography

Name:Skrillex
Occupation: DJ
Gender:Male
Height:164 cm (5′ 5”)
Birth Day: January 15,
1988
Age: 32
Birth Place: Los Angeles,
United States
Zodiac Sign:Capricorn

Skrillex

Skrillex was born on January 15, 1988 in Los Angeles, United States (32 years old). Skrillex is a DJ, zodiac sign: Capricorn. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: $50 Million.

Trivia

He won three Grammy Awards in 2013 for the album Bangarang, including one for “Promises,” which he recorded with Nero. 

Net Worth 2020

$50 Million
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Physique

HeightWeightHair ColourEye ColourBlood TypeTattoo(s)
164 cm (5′ 5”) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Before Fame

He attended a boarding school in the Mojave Desert in California and started being home schooled at age 14 after being bullied. Before becoming well known, he released songs and demos on the social network site MySpace. 

Biography

Biography Timeline

2004

Moore lived in the Highland Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles, but was brought to the Forest Hill neighborhood of San Francisco at the age of 2, where he attended elementary school. At the ages of 9 and 10, Moore attended a boarding school in the Mojave Desert LV, but eventually moved back to Northern California. Both of his parents were Scientologists. He was adopted at birth by family friends of his biological parents and did not find this out until he was 15. By the time he was 12, his family moved back to his birthplace of Northeast Los Angeles. There he enrolled in a private academy school specializing in arts, the school used some of L Ron Hubbard’s teachings. Later he was home schooled at the age of 14 due to bullying. In 2004, he learned he was adopted and dropped out of the program when he was 16. While a young teenager in Los Angeles, Moore would attend punk gigs in Mexican American neighborhoods in East and South Los Angeles, and later at electro club raves in the downtown’s Silver Lake and Echo Park neighborhoods.

In 2004, Moore contacted Matt Good of From First to Last about playing guitar for the band on their debut album. After flying out to Georgia, Moore was heard singing by three studio producers, Derrick Thomas, Eric Dale, and McHale Butler, and was then made lead singer, with Good playing guitar. In June 2004, Epitaph Records released the band’s first full-length record with their new bandmate, Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count. After performing on several successful tours, two being the Vans Warped Tour and Dead by Dawn tour, they began recording their second album, Heroine with producer Ross Robinson. The album was released in March 2006 on Epitaph. With high record sales once again, the band found themselves part of many successful tours, until Moore started suffering vocal problems, causing the band to resign from several tours. After going through a successful vocal surgical procedure, Moore informed the band he would be permanently resigning to work on a solo career. FFTL’s last show performed with Moore was in their hometown of Orlando at The House of Blues while touring with Atreyu.

2007

Moore announced he had left From First to Last to pursue a solo career. He then launched a Myspace page displaying three demos (“Signal”, “Equinox”, and “Glow Worm”). This led to Moore’s first performance since his leaving From First to Last. On April 7, 2007, alongside harpist Carol Robbins, Moore played several original songs at a local art building. After months of releasing demos via Myspace, Moore played on the Team Sleep Tour with a full band. The tour also featured supporting acts Monster in the Machine and Strata. Moore made several demo CDs available on this tour, limited to about 30 per show. These CDs were tour exclusive, and were packaged in “baby blue envelopes”, each with a unique drawing by Moore or bandmate.

2008

In February 2008, Alternative Press Magazine announced the second annual AP Tour, with All Time Low, The Rocket Summer, The Matches, and Forever the Sickest Kids, as well as Sonny Moore. The tour started in Houston, Texas on March 14 and went through North America, ending in Cleveland, Ohio on May 2, with the majority of the shows being sold out. All bands playing the tour would be featured on the cover of Alternative Press Magazine’s annual 100 Bands You Need to Know special, and would be interviewed on the Alternative Press Podcast. During this tour Moore’s line-up consisted of Sean Friday on drums, Christopher Null on guitar, and Aaron Rothe on keyboards. On April 7, 2009, he released Gypsyhook, a digital EP, which featured three songs and four remixes. Also included was “海水” (“Kaisui”), a Japanese version of “Mora”. Physical copies of the EP were available at his shows. After going on tour with Innerpartysystem and Paper Route and opening for Chiodos on their European tour, Moore performed at Bamboozle on May 2. He performed on Bamboozle Left’s Saints and Sinners stage on April 4. He toured with Hollywood Undead in April 2009 performing under the band name Sonny and the Blood Monkeys, with Chris Null (electric guitar), Sean Friday (drums, percussion and beats) and Aaron Rothe (keyboards, synthesizers, programming and turntables). Moore has stated that the album Bells will not be released.

In 2008, Moore began producing and performing under the alias Skrillex at clubs in the Los Angeles area. The name, according to Moore, has no meaning and was “a stupid old online AOL screen name”. Previously, he had been known on the Internet as Twipz. On June 7, 2010, Moore released his official Skrillex debut EP, My Name Is Skrillex as a free download. Moore provided programming and vocals for UK metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon on their third studio album, There Is a Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let’s Keep It a Secret. Later in the year, Sonny began a nationwide tour with deadmau5 after being signed to mau5trap recordings and released his second EP, Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.

2011

Moore kicked off the “Project Blue Book Tour” in 2011 with support from Porter Robinson, Tommy Lee and DJ Aero as well as appearances from Sofia Toufa for a new song, “Bring Out the Devil”. Skrillex unveiled several new songs on this tour including “First of the Year” (formerly known as “Equinox”), “Reptile”, and “Cinema” (remix of a Benny Benassi track). “Reptile” was featured in the TV commercial for Mortal Kombat 9, and “First of the Year (Equinox)” is featured on More Monsters and Sprites, his follow-up EP and remix companion to Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites. In April 2011, Spin premiered “Get Up”, an exclusive new track from Korn that was produced by Skrillex. Korn made the track available for free download via their Facebook page. On April 15, 2011, KoRn joined Skrillex on stage for his set at Coachella 2011. On April 18, 2011, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEA) development studio Naughty Dog released a trailer for the multiplayer component of their PlayStation 3 game Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, featuring “Kill EVERYBODY” from Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.

In June 2011, “More Monsters and Sprites” was released on Beatport, an EP consisting of three original tracks, including “First of the Year (Equinox)” and two versions of his original track “Ruffneck”. The track “Ruffneck Bass” had been leaked on the internet months prior which used the same sample as in the new “Ruffneck” tracks on the EP. Skrillex released a music video for “Rock n’ Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)” on his official YouTube page on June 20, 2011. On August 17, 2011 Skrillex announced his label, OWSLA.

“The label’s first releases will come from Bristol-based dubstep producers KOAN Sound, electro-house newcomer Porter Robinson from North Carolina, singer-songwriter Alvin Risk, and San Francisco-based M Machine (formally Metropolis).” Skrillex released a music video for “First of the Year (Equinox)” via Spin.com on August 19, 2011. In late August 2011 it was released that he would be appearing Knife Party’s first release, collaborating on “Zoology”, a Moombahton style track. A preview was released on YouTube. In late September 2011 he created the track “Syndicate” as promotion for the video game of the same name. Kaskade’s 2011 album Fire & Ice features “Lick It”, a collaboration between Kaskade and Skrillex. The video for Skrillex’s song “First of the Year (Equinox)” appears on the first episode of the Beavis and Butt-head revival.

On November 8, Skrillex stated that he intended to release an album, Voltage. Skrillex gave fans more info about Voltage in RockSound Magazine after a photoshoot for the cover and doing an extensive interview on his tour. For unknown reasons, however, the album was never released, however on December 21, 2011, Skrillex unveiled the Bangarang EP for a Beatport release on December 23, then on August 12, 2012, his new side-project formed with Boys Noize called Dog Blood released an EP called Next Order/Middle Finger. On November 6, 2012, Skrillex released a limited edition triple vinyl box set. Skrillex composed the song “Bug Hunt” for the 2012 animated film Wreck-It Ralph, as well as making a brief cameo as a DJ in the film’s first act, and in December 2012, “Make It Bun Dem” is used in as a looped variant during the single player mission ‘Kick the Hornets Nest’ in the video game Far Cry 3. He composed the score for Spring Breakers with Cliff Martinez.

2012

Dog Blood, a side project by Skrillex and Boys Noize, was formed in 2012. Their debut single, consisting of the songs “Next Order” and “Middle Finger”, was released on August 12, 2012 on Beatport and iTunes. The song “Next Order” managed to top Beatport’s Techno chart.

2013

Jack Ü is a duo made up of Skrillex and Diplo. Jack Ü’s debut performance took place at the Mad Decent Block Party in San Diego on September 15, 2013, which is a nationwide tour that record label Mad Decent puts together in order to showcase different artists signed to the label. Diplo announced the project by releasing the Mad Decent Block Party lineup with Jack Ü playing at multiple stops on the tour. After some guessing by many of who Jack Ü was, Diplo finally came out to reveal that “Jack Ü … means Skrillex and Diplo together”.

Skrillex confirmed at a show in January 2013 that he would release a new LP in the summer. On January 2, 2013, Skrillex released his 7th EP, Leaving, on the OWSLA subscription service, Nest IV. He later released the single “Try It Out” with Alvin Risk.

2014

On March 7, 2014, an App titled “Alien Ride” was put up on Apple’s App Store which contained a secret folder with 11 hidden objects and a countdown ending March 10 at 6:30EST. Moore’s website was updated with the App’s picture on the front page and it was later revealed the folder contains Google Play and iTunes url’s which eventually were revealed to be 11 new songs available to stream that comprised his debut LP, titled Recess. The album was made available for pre-order at midnight and was released on March 18, 2014.

Moore partnered up with Red Bull to produce a documentary titled “Let’s Make a Spaceship”. It premiered on October 11, 2014 at 10 p.m. CT at the ACL Festival after his headline performance. His performance and documentary, and others’ performances are available for stream at Red Bull TV’s website.

2015

In a 2015 interview, Moore stated that although his parents practiced Scientology, he does not. He explained that music consumes most of the time he could theoretically devote to religion. His mother died in June 2015.

2016

Skrillex was getting into the K-pop industry by collaborating with girl group 4Minute. On January 25, 2016, Cube Entertainment released the track list and individual teaser images for the members. The first track, “Hate”, was composed and arranged by Skrillex.

2017

On January 15, 2017, Moore tweeted “Happy Birthday” with a link to a new From First to Last song which featured Moore on vocals. He later joined the band in Emo Nite LA for the first time in nearly a decade. In 2017, he released the songs “Chicken Soup” with Habstrakt, “Would You Ever” with Poo Bear, “Saint Laurent” with DJ Sliink and Wale and “Favor” with Vindata and NSTASIA.

2018

In July 2018, Skrillex teased fans by collaborating with Missy Elliott on a snippet nicknamed “ID”, a release date for the single has yet to be announced.

On October 8, 2018, Skrillex uploaded a photo to Twitter showcasing a collaboration between him and English DJ and producer Joyryde, later posting a video teaser of the song to Instagram. The collaboration, “Agen Wida”, was officially released on October 19, 2018. On October 24, 2018 on Instagram, he previewed the song “Arms Around You”, a collaboration featuring XXXTentacion, Lil Pump, Maluma and Swae Lee. The full single was released on October 25, 2018.

2019

Skrillex, Poo Bear, and Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada collaborated on “Face My Fears”, an opening song for the video game Kingdom Hearts III. The single was released on January 18, 2019.

On July 18, 2019, Skrillex released a two-track EP, Show Tracks, consisting of “Fuji Opener” featuring Alvin Risk and “Mumbai Power” featuring rapper Beam.

🎂 Upcoming Birthday

Currently, Skrillex is 34 years, 0 months and 5 days old. Skrillex will celebrate 35th birthday on a Sunday 15th of January 2023.

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Facts

  1. Skrillex’s other pseudonym was Twipz.
  2. In 2007, Skrillex went on tour as a solo singer.
  3. Skrillex resumed his work with From First To Last recording the song “Make War” with his former bandmates.
  4. At first, Skrillex decided to try out for the rock band From First To Last as a guitarist and then he became a singer.
  5. In his teenage period, Skrillex attended punk concerts and clubs where there was an atmosphere filled with electro house music.
  6. Who has he collaborated with? 
    Skrillex was a member of famous duets Dog Blood and Jack Ü with Diplo and Boys Noize correspondingly.
  7. How many Grammys are there under his belt? 
    Skrillex talent in creating electronic music caused winning eight Grammys. It is a record among electronic music producers.
  8. What were his first commercial successes as Skrillex? 
    Skrillex’s debut commercial single was “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” released in 2010. The following hit was “More Monsters and Sprites” launched in 2011.
  9. What does his performance name mean? 
    In fact, there is nothing behind his name Skrillex. As he stated, Skrillex had been often called Skrilly by his best fellows earlier. This inspired him to give himself such a name.

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