# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deadmau5
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:43:22.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deadmau5"
name: "Deadmau5"
slug: "deadmau5"
description: "Joel Thomas Zimmerman, known professionally as Deadmau5, is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. His musical style mostly includes progressive house and electro house genres, though he also produces and DJs other genres of electronic music, including techno under the alias Testpilot. Zimmerman mostly appears and performs with a custom helmet called the \"mau5head\". He has received seven Grammy Award nominations and won four Juno Awards for his songs."
tagline: "Canadian electronic dance music producer (born 1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Deadmau5_live_unmasked_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1981-01-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           76.8
  momentum:             0.8344918957560047
  historical:           24.58755333333334
  currentAttention:     3.013708372597478
  sourceConfidence:     100
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  49
  category: null
totalFollowers: 1980000
platforms:
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    url:       "https://deadmau5.com/"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/deadmau5/"
    handle:    "deadmau5"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
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    handle:    "deadmau5"
  - platform:  "X"
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    handle:    "deadmau5"
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    handle:    "deadmau5"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm2091468"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "2CIMQHirSU0MQqyYHq0eOx"
  - platform:  "TWITCH"
    url:       "https://www.twitch.tv/deadmau5"
    handle:    "deadmau5"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYEK6xds6eo-3tr4xRdflmQ"
    handle:    "@deadmau5"
    followers: 1980000
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Deadmau5"
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    title: "Deadmau5"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Deadmau5"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Deadmau5"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Deadmau5"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Deadmau5"
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    title: "ડેડમાઉસ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Deadmau5"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "deadmau5"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump