David Guetta

The world's Number One DJ

French dance music was not a major export until David Guetta appeared. Meet the superstar DJ who's making the world dance!
David Guetta always wanted to mix music. At age 13, the French teenager mixed his first albums at home, and at 14 he started organizing parties* in his home. He thougher: " I want to be a DJ - I don't need to be good at Maths! " In 1984, at only age 17, David got a job as a DJ in a club in Paris. He soon got a reputation for being a good DJ with a telent for mixing music. EARLY SUCCESS

For David Guetta, the jurner* to international fame* was slow. In1996, he started to DJ in clubs on the Spanish island of Ibiza. The he released* compilation albums of his club hits and started making his own* records. His two albums Just a little More Love (2002) andPol Life (2997) were hits in Europe.

INTERNATIONAL STAR

David had difficulty getting fans is the USA, however. This changed when David produced the hit single " I Goot feeling" by the black Eyed Peas in 2009. The same year, his own album, One love was a international hit too. Suddenly, everyone wanted to work with him!







FRIENDS...

Today, David's club night in Ibiza is famous around the worls. He goes there on this private jet and stays in his luxury* villa: it's the sort of place you see ina James Bond film. That is because David is now a superstar DJ: he plays dance festivals to 80,000 fans, earns* more than 3 millions euros a year and makes albums featuring* stars like Rihanna and FloRida.
...AND ENEMIES

But David has critics too. Electronic music purists say that he is too commercial, that his music is too simple and that he has not talents. HIs club nights are criticized for being too elitist. His title "producer*" is also ambiguous: it's not clear if he has financed a music project, written the music project, written themusic of just mixed it.

CONFIDENCE IS EVERYTHING

David Guetta doesn't agree with the critics: " Our sound is talking* over the planet, " he says. But he doesn't have to defend himself. David knows that the has created a sound that is instantly recognizable. He is the first person to combine the roles of DJ, producer and solo artist so successfully. NObody* can "produce" succesful nodern pop like David Guetta can. That is why the Frenchman has the title of world's Number One DJ!