1. Deadmau5 has received seven Grammy Award nominations and won four Juno Awards for his songs.
19 Facts About Deadmau5
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Deadmau5 later formed electronic music supergroups such as Kx5 with Kaskade and Rezzmau5 with Rezz.
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Deadmau5 won a Juno Award for both this album and the song "All U Ever Want" with Billy Newton-Davis.
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Deadmau5's mother, Nancy, is a visual artist, and his father, Rodney Thomas "Rod" Zimmerman, is a General Motors plant worker.
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Deadmau5 received his first keyboard for Christmas when he was a teenager.
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Deadmau5 then worked with an online music licensing company and was a programmer.
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Deadmau5 adopted the name Deadmau5, which referred to a dead mouse he found in his computer; the unique spelling was a result of a maximum character limitation.
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Deadmau5 later discussed the incident on a H3h3Productions podcast in an interview on YouTube.
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Deadmau5 expressed gratitude towards Lady Gaga and David Guetta for bringing dance into the pop music scene and paving the way for him to the mainstream.
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On July 23,2015, Valve announced that Deadmau5 was creating a series of sound clips to be featured in their video game Dota 2.
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On October 7,2015, Deadmau5 officially announced that he was leaving his then label Astralwerks and going entirely independent with his own label Mau5trap.
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Deadmau5 marked the occasion with a 45-minute fireside chat about his career at the event, reflecting on his start and discussing his aspirations, which included light aspirations to perform at the newly opened Sphere in Las Vegas.
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Deadmau5 is featured as a secret unlockable character in the 2014 video game Goat Simulator as "deadgoa7".
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Deadmau5's music has been included in other video game titles, including a custom soundtrack for Dota 2.
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On May 8,2020, In Fortnite: Battle Royale, a multi-part concert by Dillon Francis, Steve Aoki, and Deadmau5 himself was held to celebrate the full release of the "Party Royale" game mode.
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Deadmau5 tried to change his name to "Deadmouse" in an online chat room, but it was too long, so he shortened it to "Deadmau5".
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Fans often attend Deadmau5 concerts sporting their own copy or alteration of the mau5head.
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Deadmau5 created his website and began uploading songs to SectionZ and producing under the alias "Deadmau5" in 2002.
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On May 15,2017, Deadmau5 filed a countersuit against Bassiri with the intention of seeking forfeiture of Bassiri's website and domain name.