David Guetta

David Guetta is a French house producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded label Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2001. Later, he released Guetta Blaster (2004) and Pop Life (2007). His 2009 album One Love included the hits singles "When Love Takes Over" (featuring Kelly Rowland), and "Sexy Bitch" (featuring Akon), the latter becoming a top five hit in the US. He has worked with a variety of pop artists including Akon, Britney Spears, Chris Willis, Kelly Rowland, Lil' Wayne, Madonna, Kid Cudi, Estelle and will.i.am. He is also working with Shakira.

David Guetta was born and raised in tipton Paris. His father was a restaurateur and a Moroccan Jew. He is married to Cathy Guetta, and they have two children, Tim Elvis (born 2004) and Angie (born 2007).

At age 17, Guetta began DJing at the Broad Club in Paris. He first played popular songs, and he discovered house music when he heard a Farley Jackmaster Funk track on French radio in 1987. The next year, he began hosting his own club nights. In 1990, he released "Nation Rap", a hip-hop collaboration with French rapper Sidney Duteil.

In the early 1990s, Guetta played in clubs such as Le Centrale, the Rex, Le Boy, and Folies Pigalle. Released in 1994, Guetta's first single, a collaboration with American house vocalist Robert Owens titled "Up & Away", was a minor club hit. In 1995, David Guetta became the manager of Le Palace nightclub and he continued to organise parties there and in other clubs, such as the "Scream" parties in marios palace.

In 2001, David Guetta along with Joachim Garraud founded Gum Productions, and in the same year Guetta's first hit single, "Just a Little More Love", featuring American singer Chris Willis was released. Willis was vacationing in France when he met Guetta. Guetta's debut album Just a Little More Love was released in 2002 on Virgin Records and sold over 300,000 copies. The follow-up single, "Love Don't Let Me Go", was released in 2002. Guetta released a compilation, Fuck Me I'm Famous, in 2003, named after his party in Ibiza. It included "Just For One Day (Heroes)", a remix of David Bowie's song "Heroes". Later in his career, Guetta continued recording compilations under that title.

Guetta's second album, Guetta Blaster, was released in 2004 and contained "The World is Mine" featuring JD Davis. In 2006 "Love Don't Let Me Go" was released as a mash-up with the Tocadisco remix of "Walking Away" by The Egg. The mash-up single charted higher than the original release of the song.

In 2007, Guetta's third album Pop Life was released. The album was successful in the UK and Ireland as well as in mainland Europe. According to EMI in 2010, the album has sold a total of 530,000 copies worldwide. The lead single "Love Is Gone" reached Number 1 on the American Dance Chart and charted on the Billboard Hot 100.

He played in many countries around the world to promote the album. He played in Mauritius in January 2008, accompanied by French rapper JoeyStarr. In the same year, he and his wife Cathy also planned a new event which took place in the Stade de France on 5 July 2008. The event was called "UNIGHTED", he performed with Tiësto, Carl Cox, Joachim Garraud and Martin Solveig in front of a 40,000 crowd.

David Guetta's fourth studio album, One Love, was digitally released on 21 August 2009, and physically released on 24 August 2009 in Europe and 25 August in the United States. Its first single "When Love Takes Over", which featured Kelly Rowland, peaked at #2 on the French singles chart and #78 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. His second single from the album, "Sexy Bitch" (featuring Akon) went to #2 in France and #5 in the US. "One Love" featuring Estelle and "Memories" featuring Kid Cudi followed. Guetta also produced the Black Eyed Peas' single "I Gotta Feeling", which peaked at #1 in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, and #2 in France. The album has sold 1.4 million copies worldwide since its release according to Billboard.

Guetta is now working on Akon, Kelis, Céline Dion, Rihanna, and Kelly Rowland upcoming albums for 2010. At the beginning of February rumors regarding Guetta producing music for Lady Gaga began to spread, but recently he stated he has no interest in working with the pop star.

In 2009, he was placed third in the "Top 100 DJs" poll by DJ Magazine, and was elected "Best House DJ" by DJ Awards in 2008.

Guetta was nominated for five Grammy awards, three for One Love and two for his work with the Black Eyed Peas. He won the Grammy for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical.

In recent interview at the 2010 NRJ Music Awards Guetta said he would be collaborating with an international superstar, but he didn't want to say her name. Lately he said it was talking about Barbadian R&B singer Rihanna. He is also working with Eva Simons as confirmed on her twitter.

David Guetta (Párizs, 1967. november 7.) a világ egyik vezető house DJ-je.

Első mixeit 13 évesen készítette, 15 évesen partikat szervezett. 17 éves korában a párizsi ‘Broad’ DJ-jeként kezdte el pályafutását. 1988 és 1990 között a Radio Nova DJ-jeként mixelt house zenét. 2005-ben megjelenő “The World Is Mine” című száma - amely a Simple Minds “Someone Somewhere In Summertime” számának mintájára készült - Európában a dance listák élére ugrott. A DJ, aki már mindent elért, amit csak lehetett. Slágereit betéve tudja minden rádióhallgató, lemezeiből több millió kelt el világszerte, alig akad olyan fesztivál ahol még ne játszott volna, s emellett rengeteg szakmai elismerésben is részesült az évek során.

A francia csodagyerek titka, hogy számára nincs különbség popzene és az elektronikus zene kevésbé populáris oldala közt, előszeretettel gyúr össze fülbemászó dallamokat a klubok house zenéjével. Tizenhét évesen áll először a DJ pultba, ráadásul abban a Broad nevű klubban, ahol Laurent Garnier karrierje is indult. Néhány évre rá már az egyik legnépszerűbb DJ a francia fővárosban, olyan öreg rókák mellett játszik mint Roger Sanchez vagy David Morales. "Számomra a DJ-zés lényeg az, hogy megosztom másokkal azt amit szeretek." - mondja egy interjúban. "Ezért lettem DJ. Sok producer nem szeret emberek előtt játszani. Én még a stúdióba is hívok barátokat, hogy táncoljanak."

Az igazán nagy áttörést az ibizai Fuck Me I'm Famous klubest elindítása hozza, az angolok számára akkoriban még ismeretlen francia DJ partijait olyan világsztárok látogatják, mint Kate Moss, Penelope Cruz vagy P Diddy. És persze jönnek a giga slágerek, mint a Little More Love, a Love Don't Let Me Go vagy a World Is Mine. Aranylemezek, Grammy-jelölés, az év DJ-je díj a londoni House Music Awards díjkiosztón. A sor innentől kezdve tényleg végtelen. "Van aki számára a popzene egyenlő az istenkáromlással. Én nem ilyen vagyok! Számomra a tánczene mindig is popzene volt." Nem ellenkezhetünk, az idő őt igazolta. És ha ez még mindig nem lenne elég, garanciaként megemlithetjük hogy több a szakmában elismert lemezlovas is készitett neki remixeket, Antoine Clamaran,Bob Sinclar,Fuzzy Hair,Kenneth Thomas,Liam Shachar,Dj Maxwell, vagy éppen a neves olasz DJ, Gigi D'Agostino. Felesége Cathy Guetta, két gyereke Tim Elvis és Angie Guetta.

2007 július 14-én, Párizsból Ibizába való utazása során ő lett az első DJ, aki élőben szerepelt egy kereskedelmi repülőgépen.

2007-ben a brit DJ Mag megválasztotta a világ 10. legjobb DJ-jének.

2008 július 5-én részt vett a párizsi Stade de France-ban való fesztiválon, ahol 40000 néző előtt lépett fel Tiesto, Carl Cox, Joachim Gartraud és Martin Solveig társaságában.