Skrillex is a $70 million net worth American electronic DJ and record producer. Skrillex’s touring and licensing revenue can potentially exceed $20 million per year before taxes. Skrillex has produced very successful singles for other artists such as Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Diplo in addition to his own music. He has also amassed a little fortune through successful real estate investments, which we will discuss further in this article.
Who is Skrillex?
Sonny John Moore was born in Los Angeles, California on January 15, 1988. He is better known as Skrillex, his stage name. He grew up in the Highland Park neighborhood in Northeast Los Angeles until he was two years old when he relocated to San Francisco’s Forest Hill neighborhood, where he attended elementary school.
His biological parents’ family friends adopted him in infancy. He did not discover this till he was 15 years old. He returned to Northeast Los Angeles at the age of 12 after attending boarding school in the Mojave Desert LV when he was 9 and 10.
He was homeschooled from the age of 14 due to bullying at school but dropped out at the age of 15. Moore used to go to punk shows and electro club raves as an adolescent.
What are some of Skrillex career influence?
Moore has stated that M arilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, and the Doors were early influences. Moore noted in an online interview that he has long been a fan of Warp, a label that has released prominent electronic musicians such as Aphex Twin and Squarepusher. Moore stated in an interview for Daft Punk Unchained, a 2015 documentary on the French electronic music group Daft Punk, that he first became aware of electronic dance music after seeing the duo’s highly appreciated 2006 Coachella set.
Meanwhile, Andy’s career began in 2001 when he and his friends founded The Lonely Island, a three-man comedy ensemble. The three had moved to Los Angeles with the intention of becoming filmmakers, but they were unable to find work. The group was named after the moniker they gave their apartment. They quickly began developing short comedy films for their website, and their digital shorts such as “White Power,” “Regarding Andy,” and “Awesometown” helped them gain notoriety.
The videos’ popularity eventually led to a writing job for the 2005 MTV Movie Awards, which led to jobs on Saturday Night Live. In February 2009, while still on SNL, they released their first studio album, “Incredibad.” Schaffer, Taccone, and Samberg left SNL in the early 2010s, but they still appear as guests on the show on occasion.
They went on to release more albums, including “Turtleneck & Chain” in 2011, “The Wack Album” in 2013, a soundtrack to 2016’s “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,” and “The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience,” a Netflix special billed as a “visual poem” to accompany a new rap album of the same name, in 2019.
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