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\"guettas-back\"David Guetta is a DJ and music producer. He’s the one that comes up with the killer beats that create the hit songs. He\u2019s the one that music artists clamour to collaborate with, in the quest for that major hit. Call him the guru of electronic dance music, as he\u2019s the one credited with getting dance tunes well wedged into the domain of pop and mainstream music. Guetta’s trendsetting 2009 album \u2018One Love\u2019 was one of the first electronic dance music albums to make it huge on pop radio; this was the break that got electronic dance music to the ears of a wider global audience and was what saw Guetta becoming one of the most in-demand DJs in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Guetta has been officially named as \u2018Number One Deejay in the World\u2019 (DJ Magazine, 2011), has over 25 million Facebook fans, more than two million Twitter followers, and over half a billion views on YouTube. He sells millions of records as well as deejaying in stadiums packed with tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n

Guetta speaks of how he has spent his life searching for that perfect dance beat. His dedication to the acoustic and his talent for arousing emotions in music listeners has made him one of the most in-demand producers on this planet. His collaborations with hip-hop\u2019s biggest stars have resulted in some killer dance tracks and some superb chart-topping songs. For 47-year-old Guetta, successful songs all rely on the melody. \u201cThe main idea of my music is to make people dance and to make them emotional at same time,\u201d he says. \u201cOf course, because it\u2019s club music, the way it is mixed down, the kick, and the beats, this is all important, but it is the melody that makes records stand out.\u201d<\/p>\n

How did it all begin for Guetta?<\/p>\n

David Guetta\u2019s fame grew from humble roots as a Parisian deejay at the age of 17. Like most parents, his weren\u2019t happy about their son becoming a deejay. But for very different reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake,\u201d says Guetta.<\/a> But he loved it and knew that was where he wanted to be.<\/p>\n

So Guetta\u2019s career in music began in the nightclubs of Paris. At the \u2018Broad Club\u2019 to be precise. He says that it was there he first played popular songs, but soon discovered house music when he heard a Farley \u2018Jackmaster\u2019 Funk<\/a> track on French radio in 1987. The next year, he began hosting his own club nights and in 1990, he released his first single, \u2018Nation Rap\u2019, a hip-hop collaboration with French rapper Sidney Duteil<\/a>.In the mid 1990s Guetta played in other clubs including \u2018Le Centrale\u2019, the \u2018Rex\u2019, \u2018Le Boy\u2019, and \u2018Folies Pigalle\u2019. Guetta’s second single released in 1994, a collaboration with American house vocalist Robert Owens<\/a> called \u2018Up & Away\u2019, was a minor club hit. In 1994, Guetta became the manager of \u2018Le Palace\u2019 nightclub and he continued throwing deejay parties there and in other clubs, such as the legendary \u2018Scream\u2019 parties in \u2018Les Bains Douches\u2019.<\/p>\n

During his Paris deejaying days, Guetta tied the knot with nightclub manager and business partner Cathy Lob\u00e9<\/a>. They have two children: son Tim Elvis Eric, who\u2019s now 11, and daughter Angie, who turned eight last September. Last year, after 22 years of marriage, the Guettas called it a day, filing for divorce in March. Rumour has it that they are still bumping heads over the division of an estimated 30 million euro fortune.<\/p>\n

There were more singles and three albums to follow for Guetta, including the formation of Gum Productions in 2001 and the release of his first album, \u2018Just a Little More Love<\/a>\u2019. Later, he released \u2018Guetta Blaster\u2019 (2004) and \u2018Pop Life<\/a>\u2019 (2007). But it was Guetta\u2019s fourth studio album, \u2018One Love\u2019, that did it for him. The album was a \u2018coup de ma\u00eetre\u2019 in the kingdom of music, selling over 3 million copies globally. It gave rise to a total of six worldwide hit singles throughout 2009 and 2010, most notably \u2018When Love Takes Over<\/a>\u2019, featuring American recording artist Kelly Rowland<\/a>, \u2018Sexy Bitch<\/a>\u2019 with Senegalese-American singer Akon<\/a>, \u2018Who’s That Chick?<\/a>\u2019 featuring Rihanna<\/a> and \u2018One Love<\/a>\u2019 featuring British R&B artist, Estelle<\/a>. Not only that, but the album received a nomination for the 52nd Grammy Awards<\/a> in the category \u2018Best Electronic\/Dance Album<\/a>\u2019. The album’s lead single, \u2018When Love Takes Over\u2019 was nominated in the categories \u2018Best Dance Recording<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical<\/a>\u2019, winning the latter. His sixth studio album, \u2018Listen<\/a>\u2019, was released worldwide in November last year, with Guetta co-writing the title track \u2018Listen\u2019 with American musician and songwriter, Austin Bis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, regardless of his rise to fame as a music producer and songwriter, Guetta is quick to confirm that he is still a DJ at heart. \u201cEverything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ,\u201d he explains.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s actually quite incredible that I\u2019m not really doing anything that different to what I was doing when I was 17,\u201d he says. \u201cI started my career playing records at a small club in Paris, before the emergence of house music. Back then, I played a mixture of new wave and funk, and in a way that is what I\u2019m playing now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from long stints in the studio recording albums, 47-year-old Guetta still gets into the concert groove with a hectic touring schedule, flitting to and from some of the finest venues in the world: he\u2019s played at the lowest point on earth: Masada in the Judean Desert in Israel, and in summer hotspots such as the idyllic island of Ibiza and the whitewashed Greek island of Mykonos. He\u2019s hosted glitzy gigs in Las Vegas and he\u2019s headlined New York City\u2019s Electric Zoo<\/a> festival. And those are just a few.<\/p>\n

Set foot into a David Guetta concert and you\u2019ll really experience what he\u2019s all about. You\u2019ll be seduced by his sound. You\u2019ll feel the emotion emanating from a captivated audience. You\u2019ll literally feel the beat, the rhythm and the bass. You\u2019ll be hypnotized by the sets, the lights, the smoke, the spectacle. You\u2019ll get just how he entertains and enthralls the tens of thousands of fans who sway and gyrate to his beats, to his personal music mixes.<\/p>\n

David Guetta, the go-getter is really going places. But for Guetta, it will always be about the music. As he explains, \u201cI don’t do this for the money, I don’t do it for record sales, I don’t really care about that, I just want to make beats.<\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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