Support Women Artist Sunday: Lights

"It's easy to misconstrue a young girl singer as a total puppet. I am the opposite of that. This is what I do. I am LIGHTS."

LIGHTS is a Canadian singer-songwriter who creates what she dubs "intergalactic-electro" music. Valerie Poxleitner, who would go on to legally change her name, was born in Ontario to missionary parents. Because international travel was a big part of her childhood, LIGHTS looked for something she could always rely on. Writing her first song at age eleven, an experience that she describes as having "kicked off the biggest thing of my life, she found that consistency in music.

She began her career 2006 as a writer for Sony/ATV Music Publishing, where she composed music for the television series Instant Star. Early 2008 she released a self-titled EP for which she was honored with the 2009 Juno Award for New Artist of the Year. Four songs from the EP were featured in Old Navy commercials. 2009 saw LIGHTS receiving more rewards (Indie Awards in the Favorite Solo Artist and Favorite Single categories) and releasing her debut album The Listening.

LIGHTS has toured with Keane, Owl City and Stars of Track and Field. She was part of the Warped Tour and the Lilith Fair Tour in the summers of 2009 and 2010, respectively. LIGHTS is in the song & music video for the song Every Day by Ten Second Epic. The latter was nominated for Best Independent Music Video at the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards. She was also featured as a singer on three tracks included on The Februarys' second EP, All The Time in the World, on the song "You Got The Girl" by The Tremulance and on the soundtrack for the 2008 Canadian film One Week. LIGHTS appears as a guest vocalist on the album A Shipwreck in the Sand by the band Silverstein as well as on the upcoming Bring Me The Horizon album.

LIGHTS was named one of Shred News's '10 Artists to Watch in 2010'.  Her latest release is the LIGHTS. Acoustic EP which came out this summer.

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