Photos by Alitzia Tyminski – Lights is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter. She is known for singles “Drive My Soul”, “February Air”, “Ice”, “Second Go”, “Toes”, “My Boots” and “Up We Go”, which have charted within the top ninety on the Canadian Hot 100. Her work has earned multiple Juno Awards and Canadian Independent Music Awards.
Her debut EP Lights was released in July 2008 and achieved commercial success which enabled the release of her first full-length album, The Listening, on September 22, 2009. Her second album, Siberia, was released on October 4, 2011. Both albums have been certified gold in Canada. Lights released her third studio album, Little Machines, on September 19, 2014, which debuted on the Canadian Albums Chart at number five. Her fourth album, Skin&Earth, which featured “Giants”, was released in September 2017, accompanied by a graphic novel of the same name. Lights’s fifth studio album, PEP, was released on April 1, 2022. Her albums won the Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year in 2015 and 2018.
Lights has collaborated with artists including Arkells, The Beaches, Bring Me the Horizon, Deadmau5, Felix Cartal, Dear Rouge, i_o, Owl City and Sleepy Tom. Lights signed with Fueled by Ramen in 2019 and released Skin&Earth Acoustic, which included three new songs.
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