Wayne Sermon

Wayne Sermon, an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer, plays lead guitar for Imagine Dragons. Born in American Fork, Utah, he studied guitar performance and composition at Berklee College of Music, finishing in 2008, and played in the five-guitar jazz fusion group The Eclectic Electrics. After hearing Dan Reynolds perform at a Utah club, he approached Reynolds about music, and Reynolds asked him to join the band and relocate to Las Vegas. Sermon invited Ben McKee to play bass, while drummer Daniel Platzman, another Berklee friend, became the last member. In Las Vegas the band performed almost nightly as a lounge act, then signed with Interscope Records in November 2011 and worked with producer Alex da Kid. Their 2012 debut album Night Visions reached number 2 on the Billboard 200 and won a Billboard Music Award for Best Rock Album in 2014. Its singles included It's Time, Radioactive, which won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance, and Demons.