Lights

Born in Timmins, Ontario, Lights lived in the Philippines and Jamaica during her elementary school years. Lights' mother home schooled the kids; but, one day a week the singer's father would take over. In 1997 the family moved back to Canada and almost immediately, nine year-old Lights got her hands on a guitar. By eleven she'd learned a handful of chords, which she used to write her first song. Then, at thirteen she turned her attention to production. As a teenager Lights spent much of her time writing songs up in her attic bedroom, which she dubbed Starry Night studios after her favorite Van Gogh painting. By eighteen Lights had moved out of her parents' house and was living in Toronto with only her pet tarantula Lance to keep her company. In this state of near-isolation Lights finally found her signature sound- a merging of classic pop songwriting with deeply intimate yet universally appealing lyrics.

She wrote "February Air," a poignant ode to the chill of winter love, which became the first of four Lights songs used by Old Navy in the company's 2008 spring ad campaign. Though her star was clearly on the rise, it was Lights' online profile that really solidified her fan base. Between the singer's MySpace page (which to date has over eight million visits and fifteen million plays,) her personal web site iamLights. com and her passion for web-based fantasy games like World of Warcraft, the artist's online identity is as evolved as your nerdiest teenage boy's and this is something she's very proud of.

In April 2008 Lights released her eponymous EP. It contained six songs including "February Air," which reached #3 on the MuchMusic countdown in Canada, as well as the epic "Drive My Soul," which was an even bigger hit; the song was added to radio without being serviced, climbed all the way to #1 on Much Music, and spent over three months in the Top 20 on Hot AC radio.

On the strength of her EP alone, Lights won the 2009 Juno (the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy Award) for New Artist of the Year, joining the ranks of Feist and Nelly Furtado. The singer's rapidly growing fan base was clamoring for live Lights shows so she hit the road, playing countless sold out gigs in her home country, as well as numerous festival dates in the UK.

In addition to touring extensively through the United States, this summer Lights spent five weeks on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour and this fall will join Keane on their Canadian tour.

Lights' first full-length studio debut, The Listening, was released in 2009. It included a few songs already familiar to die-hard Lights fans, as well as plenty of new material including the first single, "Saviour," a propulsive pop ballad that represents the essence of Lights.

(May 12, 2012) Married her longtime boyfriend Beau Bokan following a 8-month-long engagement.

Gave birth to her 1st child at age 26, a daughter Rocket Wild Bokan on February 15, 2014. Child's father is her husband, Beau Bokan.