Jeremy Gara is a Canadian musician who has a net worth of $5 million. Jeremy Gara is best known as the longtime drummer of Arcade Fire, the Montreal indie rock group that rose from the underground music scene to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and headline arenas and festivals around the world.

Gara joined Arcade Fire during the period surrounding the success of the band's debut album, "Funeral," and became its primary drummer for subsequent albums and tours. He has performed with Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, and Tim Kingsbury. Former member Will Butler performed with the group until 2021.

Outside Arcade Fire, Gara has pursued experimental electronic and ambient music, released solo albums, and collaborated with a variety of Canadian musicians.

Jeremy Gara was born on June 6, 1978, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He became involved in the city's independent music scene well before Arcade Fire was formed.

During his early career, Gara played with groups including Kepler, Weights and Measures, Clark, and The New International Standards. His work in Ottawa also connected him with Tim Kingsbury, with whom he would later play in Arcade Fire.

Gara joined Arcade Fire after the recording of "Funeral" and became the band's primary drummer as the album's success sent the group onto increasingly large international tours.

His first full Arcade Fire studio album as drummer was 2007's "Neon Bible." The record reached #2 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Canadian albums chart.

The band achieved even greater commercial success with 2010's "The Suburbs." The album reached #1 in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and several other markets before pulling off a major upset at the Grammy Awards by winning Album of the Year.

Gara continued with Arcade Fire on "Reflektor," "Everything Now," "We," and "Pink Elephant."

Although best known as a drummer, Gara also contributes percussion, guitar, keyboards, and other sounds. His playing has been central to Arcade Fire's live reputation, particularly on songs that build from restrained rhythms into the large-scale crescendos that became one of the band's trademarks.

Gara's own music is considerably more abstract than Arcade Fire's arena rock.

In 2016, he released his debut solo album, "Limn." Written, performed, and produced by Gara, the record focused on ambient electronics, drones, and sound collage rather than conventional rock songwriting.

He followed it in 2020 with "Passerine Finale," released through Invada Records, the label co-founded by Portishead's Geoff Barrow. Again, Gara largely moved away from traditional drumming in favor of electronic textures and atmospheric composition.

Gara has continued collaborating with musicians inside and outside the Arcade Fire circle.

He contributed drums to Tim Kingsbury's Sam Patch project and worked with former Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld and choreographer Peggy Baker on "Who We Are in the Dark," a dance production for which Gara and Neufeld composed and performed music.

His other recording credits have included work with Arizona Amp and Alternator and Norwegian singer Susanna Wallumrød.

Gara remains part of Arcade Fire's five-member core lineup and appeared on the band's seventh studio album, "Pink Elephant."