About David Guetta
Saturday, November 4, 2017
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ORIGIN
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Paris, France
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GENRE
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Dance
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BORN
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7 Nov 1967
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France's David Guetta belongs to the sparkling wave of DJs who combine
Daft Punk's sleek house music with a pinch of electroclash's punch.
Guetta had been DJ'ing around France playing popular tunes, but his
brain was particularly rewired in 1987 when he heard a Farley Jackmaster
Funk track on French radio. He taped the track, brought a copy to a
gig, and promptly cleared the floor with it during one of his own sets.
Things loosened up a year later when acid house came to France and
Guetta successfully promoted his own club nights. It was during one of
those nights in 1992 that he met Robert Owens, a Chicago-based house
legend who was touring across Europe at the time. Guetta played Owens
some of his own tracks, and Owens picked one he liked enough to sing
over. The result was "Up and Away," a minor hit that lurked in garage DJ
crates for the next four years.
In 2010, Guetta received five nominations at the 52nd Grammy Awards, two of them related to the One Love album and the other three for his work on the Black Eyed Peas' massive worldwide hit "I Gotta Feeling." That same year, One Love was reissued as One More Love, featuring a bonus disc of remixes and new tracks. A superstar guest list -- featuring Akon, Lil Wayne, Flo Rida, Usher, Chris Brown, and others -- would figure into his 2011 release, Nothing But the Beat, but this time the DJ's songwriting was inspired by dramatic rock bands like Coldplay. In 2014, Guetta released three singles on his own Jack Back label, all of which were rounded up on that year's Lovers on the Sun EP. Later that year Guetta released his sixth studio album, Listen. Perhaps as a reaction to inadvertently finding himself a sort of unofficial godfather to the burgeoning EDM movement, the album saw him branching out of his electro-house comfort zone, experimenting with elements of hip-hop, alternative rock, R&B, and acoustic instrumentation, and featuring guest artists as diverse as Nicki Minaj, Emeli Sandé, Sia, the Script, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo. In 2015, the LP was reissued as Listen Again with new songs and remixes added to the track list, including "Bang My Head" featuring Fetty Wap and Sia. |
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