LIGHTS was born on an ice planet known as Timmins in the galaxy of Canada. Shortly after her birth, she and her family fled from the extreme temperatures because they all knew LIGHTS needed to be somewhere that she could glow, not freeze. Full Bio
THE LIGHTS STORY (so far)
LIGHTS was born on an ice planet known as Timmins in the galaxy of Canada. Shortly after her birth, she and her family fled from the extreme temperatures because they all knew LIGHTS needed to be somewhere that she could glow, not freeze.
Her upbringing was full of adventures. She was really tight with her mom and dad and sister, and they often had game nights packed with Uno and action movies. Her family's work took her across the universe, from the moons of Jamaica, to the comets of the Philippines.
LIGHTS was taught by her mom most days of the week. She learned about math and science and dinosaurs and technology. She also learned how to slice carrots Julienne style at a young age. One day out of every week her dad would take over, and those were the days LIGHTS got to learn about music and singing. She liked practicing piano lessons better when she put her keyboard on the chimes setting. It was much more rad than the piano sound.
When she was 11 light-years old LIGHTS began writing songs, but after a couple of years she grew tired of simply putting them on paper. For her 13th birthday her Dad took her to a studio as a gift and she recorded "What Am I 2 U". It was an awful song when she looks back on it, but at the time she was very stoked.
After that day of recording and finding cool sounds in the studio, LIGHTS couldn't get enough. It was like someone had opened up a whole new meteor shower of possibilities. When her Uber-Mother (Oma) gave her a thousand space-dollars as a coming of age inheritance, LIGHTS teleported as fast as she could to the music store and bought an 8-track, super old-school recording system.
In the following years, LIGHTS would write and record hundreds of songs and put them in stacks in their colorful cases. When she wasn't concocting songs like a mad scientist in her room, LIGHTS made drawings and paintings all over paper and her walls and in books and even on herself. She wrote stories and comics and collected rocks. She was terrible at team sports though, and she prefers not to talk about it.
When she was the big 15, her intergalactic adventures led LIGHTS to a cool spaceman who helped her record a sweet demo and get started taking steps out into the big, wide, music world. The spaceman would become her Spacemanager from there forward. The following years were long and sometimes frustrating. She would jump from planet to planet trying to find her place and sound in the musical-universe. The pop-rock planet was pretty, but boring. The R&B belt was groovy, but she wasn't sexy enough for it. The acoustic galaxy made her think too much about deep emotions. The metal moon was pretty sweet, and she joined a band there for a time. But all in all, LIGHTS was lost in musical space.
At 18 light-years old, LIGHTS said goodbye to her family and moved to Torontopolis. She holed up by herself in a little apartment to focus her creativity and ambitions. During that time she learned a lot about herself. She learned how to put all her different music planets together for a whole new planet sound. She learned that when she was sad, an encouraging song could lift her up. And when she was happy, nothing could bring her down. She learned to say exactly what she wanted to say. One year later, in the month of February, she wrote a song that would open the door to everything she had been waiting for. Soon afterward, people all across the galaxy would begin to see LIGHTS for themselves (mainly on her spaceMyspace).
After having found her sound, LIGHTS decided it was time to bring her music to the stage, but she had no friends in the big city except for Spacemanager and her pet tarantulalien, Lance. And Lance couldn't play instruments with his spindly arms. So she posted ads around town, in music stores, and online for a synth sidekick, and a stellar drummer. She found Adam and Maurie, two tubular musicians, and they all got along and stuck together like intergalactic space goo. After they had all had enough of taking local space transportation and cosmic taxis to gigs, LIGHTS got an old meals-on-wheels UFO and it became their tour van. You can still kind of see where it says "Elderly Aliens Transportation" on it.
I know that even though my space expeditions up until now have been crazy and confusing at times, my work will never end and I still have a long way to go. Even though I am small and get scared, I am getting more brave every day because I have a great team around me every step of the way, and I know I am exactly where I am supposed to be in the Hide Bio