Pretty Lights

About Pretty Lights

Pretty Lights Music is a Grammy-nominated electronic music musician and the owner of the Pretty Lights Music record label. He's worked with The Disco Biscuits and performed at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas in 2012.

Derek Vincent Smith, known by his stage name Pretty Lights, is an American electronic music producer. Pretty Lights was originally a music project consisting of him and Michal Menert, who left after releasing their debut album. Rick Rubin describes Pretty Lights as "the face and voice of the new American electronic music scene".

Genres	Electronic, hip hop, soul
Labels	Pretty Lights Music, 8 Minutes 20 Seconds Records
Also known as	Derek Vincent Smith
Members	Derek Vincent Smith
Origin	Fort Collins, Colorado
Past members	Michal Menert, Cory Eberhard, Adam Deitch
Years active	2004–present
Associated acts	GRiZ, Michal Menert, Break Science, Gramatik, Paul Basic, SuperVision, Eliot Lipp, Paper Diamond, Listen

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Trivia

His Pretty Lights Music label allowed users to download Pretty Lights music and music by other musicians for free.

Pretty Lights before fame

In high school, he began recording and writing hip hop music. He enrolled at the University of Chicago, but dropped out after his freshman year, believing that college would be a distraction from his music.

Achievement of Pretty Lights

Users could download Pretty Lights and other musicians' music for free through his Pretty Lights Music label.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Pretty Lights family life

Derek Vincent Smith is his true name, and he was born and raised in Colorado. His ex-girlfriend Krystle Blackburn has helped him run the Pretty Lights Music label; they later broke up in 2015.

Associations of Pretty Lights

He shared the stage with Tiesto at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2010.

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