deadmau5 — Joel Thomas Zimmerman in real life — is a musician, DJ, and EDM producer from Canada. He's into progressive house music, but he also acts as a DJ for other electronic music genres. He garnered six Grammy Award nominations because of his work. deadmau5 worked with other producers and DJs and built his record label Mas5trap in 2007. He's one of the top paid electronic music producers around the world.