Major Lazer | Artist profile

About Major Lazer

Major Lazer is an American electronic dance music and DJ group that was founded in 2008 by record producer Diplo and Switch. Switch left the group in 2011 and was replaced by Jillionaire and Walshy Fire. In 2019, Jillionaire departed and was succeeded by Ape Drums. In 2025, British-Jamaican artist and Internet personality America Foster joined the group as a vocalist. The group's music incorporates various genres, including reggae, dancehall, ReggaeEDM, reggaeton, soca, house, and moombahton. Major Lazer has released four full-length albums: Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do (2009), Free the Universe (2013), Peace Is the Mission (2015), and Music Is the Weapon (2020). They have also issued six EPs, among them Apocalypse Soon (2014), which featured Pharrell Williams and Sean Paul, and Know No Better (2017), with contributions from Camila Cabello, Quavo, Travis Scott, and J Balvin. Additionally, Major Lazer produced Reincarnated, the debut reggae album by Snoop Dogg under the Snoop Lion alias.