Youth
On January 15, 1988, in Los Angeles, Sonny John Moore was welcomed to this world. He grew up in many different places because his family moved a lot. At the age of 14 he went to school at home, because of intimidation. He learned that he was adopted when he was 16 years old, so he left the private academy school that specialized in art. During his visit to the Punk and Electrical Club Rave performances in Los Angeles, he learned that the band from First to Last was looking for a new guitarist. In the audition in Georgia, some producers heard him singing, becoming a band guitarist, he became the main singer of the band.
Skrillex Career
Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Have a Body Count is the first album Band with Moore as the main singer, and was released in 2004. Their second album with Moore brought them a decent record record. The name of this album is a hero, and was released in 2006. He left the band after being faced with a serious vocal problem and surgical intervention. After that, he decided to start his solo career.
His first EP, titled My Name Is Skrillex, was launched in 2010, but did not get much success. Scary Monsters & Nice Sprite, EP both Got Him Two Grammy Awards for the best dance recording and the best dance/electronic album. He won another Grammy with another EP named Bangarang. In 2014 he Skrillex released his first studio album, titled Recess. Next year, he made a collaboration album with Diplo, named Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack U.
Skrillex project
Moore’s YouTube channel has nearly 16 million customers. With a total display of more than 4 billion, the channel gave him between $ 172,000 and $ 2.8 million per year. Moore collaborated with Red Bull in 2014. The results of this collaboration were documentary films Let’s Make a Spaceship, which was almost behind the scenes of the Skrillex Mothership tour in 2014.
Moore has the intention to keep his brand pure and original, so he has refused every opportunity for product support so far. In addition, music for several video games and several films produced by him.
Housing area
Moore paid his comfortable house in Los Angeles around $ 2 million. The house IE was reduced by many electronic music machines. It has been reported that he spent $ 6 million for an empty place in Malibu, where he was expected to build his dream home.
Net worth
Moore has a very bad financial situation before starting his solo career. After his departure with the band from First to Last and his vocal operation, there was a time when he was homeless and in debt. But everything changed with the beginning of his solo career, when he got $ 5,000 per show. Today the number is between tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars per show.
His net worth is estimated to be up to $ 45 million, but fans are quite confident that he will increase it.
