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Pierre David Guetta (French:[pjɛʁdavidɡeta]; born 7 November ) is a French DJ and music producer. He has sold over 10 million albums and 65 million singles globally, with more than 30 billion streams on Spotify.^[2][3][4] Guetta was voted the number one DJ in the DJ Mag Top DJs polls in , and throughout until ^[5] In , Billboard ranked his song "When Love Takes Over" (featuring Kelly Rowland) as the number one dance-pop collaboration ever.^[6]

He released his debut album, Just a Little More Love, in ^[7] Later, he released Guetta Blaster () and Pop Life ().

Guetta achieved mainstream success with his fourth album One Love (), which included his breakthrough singles "When Love Takes Over" (featuring Kelly Rowland), "Gettin' Over You" (with Chris Willis featuring Fergie and LMFAO), "Sexy Bitch" (featuring Akon) and "Memories" (featuring Kid Cudi); the former three reached number one in the United Kingdom.^[8][9] His follow-up album, Nothing but the Beat was met with continued success, containing the hit singles "Where Them Girls At" (featuring Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj), "Little Bad Girl" (featuring Taio Cruz and Ludacris), "Without You" (featuring Usher), "Titanium" (featuring Sia) and "Turn Me On" (featuring Nicki Minaj).

In , he released his seventh album 7, which included twelve tracks under his alias Jack Back.^[10] In , he announced his creation of the EDM subgenre "future rave" along with fellow producer Morten Breum;^[11] they released a collaborative extended play, New Rave in July ^[12] In , he released the single "I'm Good (Blue)" (with Bebe Rexha), which remains the second longest-running chart-topping song on the US Dance/Electronic chart.^[13]

Guetta's accolades include two Grammy Awards, an American Music Award and a Billboard Music Award.^[14][15][16] In June , Guetta sold his recorded music catalog for an amount in the region of US$ million, with Music Business Worldwide citing a source saying it was more than that, but less than US$ million.^[17]

Early life

Pierre David Guetta was born on 7 November and was raised in Paris.

His father, Pierre, was a sociologist who was born in a Moroccan Jewish family.^[18][19][20] His mother, Monique, was of Belgian descent.^[21] Through his father, Guetta is the younger half-brother of the prominent French journalistBernard Guetta and French-Italian actress Nathalie Guetta&#;[it; fr; pl; fi].^[22] He also has a half-brother, Dominique Vidal and a half-sister, Joëlle Vidal from his mother's first marriage to French cybernetician Jacques Vidal.^[23]

Career

– Early work

Guetta began to DJ at the Broad Club in Paris.^[24] He first played popular songs, and he discovered house music when he heard a Farley "Jackmaster" Funk track on French radio in The next year, he began hosting his own club nights.^[25] In , he released "Nation Rap", a hip-hop collaboration with French rapper Sidney Duteil.

In the mids Guetta played in clubs including Le Centrale, the Rex, Le Boy, and Folies Pigalle.^[26][27] Released in Guetta's second single, a collaboration with American house vocalist Robert Owens titled "Up & Away", was a minor club hit.^[25] In , 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 Les Bains-Douches.^[28]

– Just a Little More Love

In , Guetta and 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.

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Willis was vacationing in France when he met Guetta.^[25] Guetta's debut album Just a Little More Love was released in on Virgin Records and sold over , copies. The follow-up singles, ("Love Don't Let Me Go", "People Come People Go" and "Give Me Something"), were released in Guetta released a compilation, F*ck Me I'm Famous, in , named after his party in Ibiza.

It included "Just for One Day (Heroes)", a remix of David Bowie's song "Heroes".^[25] Later in his career, Guetta continued recording compilations under that title. Along with Garraud, Guetta remixed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's hit "Enola Gay" for The OMD Singles ().^[29]

– Guetta Blaster

Guetta's second album, Guetta Blaster, was released in It was supported with the release of four singles: "Money" and "Stay" featuring Chris Willis and "The World Is Mine" and "In Love With Myself" featuring JD Davis.

In the Just a Little More Love single "Love Don't Let Me Go" was re-released as a mash-up with the Tocadisco remix of "Walking Away" by The Egg. The mash-up single entitled "Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)" was charted higher than the original release of the song.

– Pop Life

In , 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 , the album has sold a total of , copies worldwide. The lead single "Love Is Gone" reached Number 1 on the American Dance Chart and charted on the Billboard Hot

"Delirious" featured the vocals of Tara McDonald who also co wrote the record.

The song was released as the album's fourth single on 31 January The song charted #27 Austrian singles chart, #17 Belgian (Flanders) chart, #2 Belgian (Wallonia) singles chart. #12 Dutch singles chart, #16 French singles chart, #16 Swiss singles chart, #36 Hungary singles chart, #29 Romanian singles chart, #51 Swedish singles chart.

The remixes of the song, including mixes by Fred Rister, Marc Mysterio, Laidback Luke, and Arno Cost and Norman Doray were released. A video clip for the song was filmed by Denys Thibaut in Montreal, featuring Guetta and Tara McDonald, picturing an executive assistant throwing paint all over her boss's office. McDonald also sang and co wrote "You're Not Alone" from this album.

He has played in many countries around the world to promote the album. He played in Mauritius in January , 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 The event was called "UNIGHTED", he performed with Tiësto, Carl Cox, Joachim Garraud and Martin Solveig in front of a crowd of 40,^[30]

In , he was placed third in the "Top DJs" poll by DJ Magazine,^[31] and was elected "Best House DJ" by DJ Awards in Since April , Guetta had his own radio show on the internet radio station RauteMusik on Saturday evening.

The show was afterwards moved into Radio , being aired every Friday evening after Tiësto's Club Life.

– One Love and international breakthrough

Guetta's fourth studio album, One Love, was released in August Its first single "When Love Takes Over", which featured Kelly Rowland, peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart and topped many other countries worldwide, selling over 5,5 million copies worldwide.^[32][33] His second single from the album, "Sexy Bitch" featuring Akon, became his second #1 in the UK.

"One Love" featuring Estelle, "Memories" featuring Kid Cudi and "Gettin' Over You" featuring Chris Willis, Fergie and LMFAO followed. As of May the album had sold three million copies worldwide.^[34] Guetta's fourth studio album One Love was nominated as "Best Electronic/Dance Album" at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.^[35] His song "When Love Takes Over" featuring American R&B singer Kelly Rowland received two nominations; Best Dance Recording and Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical, and won the latter.

After conflicts over whether or not an album re-issue should go ahead, One More Love was released on 29 November The first single, titled "Who's That Chick?" featuring Rihanna was released a few weeks prior.^[36]

On 16 June , The Black Eyed Peas released the Guetta-produced "I Gotta Feeling" as their second single from their fifth studio album, The E.N.D..

It became a worldwide hit topping the charts in seventeen countries. It became the most downloaded song of all-time in the United States with almost million downloads and in the United Kingdom selling more than 1 million copies.^[37][38] He was nominated twice for his work with The Black Eyed Peas at the 52nd Grammy Awards; in the category Record of the Year for "I Gotta Feeling" and Album of the Year for their album The E.N.D..

In , Guetta co-wrote and produced Kelly Rowland's "Commander" from her third album Here I Am. It peaked at number one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart in the United States, and reached top ten positions in Belgium and the United Kingdom. Guetta has also co-produced "Forever and a Day", which was Kelly's next UK single from that album.^[39][40] Guetta also produced the singles "Acapella" and "Scream" for American singer-songwriter Kelis's fifth studio album, Flesh Tone, released on 14 May "Acapella" was released as the lead single on 23 February and topped the dance charts in the United Kingdom and United States.

On 28 June American rapper Flo Rida released the single "Club Can't Handle Me" featuring Guetta. The song is included on the soundtrack album to the American 3D dance film Step Up 3D and Flo Rida's third studio album, Only One Flo (Part 1).

– Nothing but the Beat and Jack Back Records

Guetta's fifth studio album, Nothing but the Beat was released on 26 August ^[41] It was released as a double-disc album; one disc being vocal and the other being electronic.^[42] Guetta was inspired by rock bands such as Kings of Leon and Coldplay to add rock influences to his dance productions.^{[citation needed]} "Where Them Girls At" featuring Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj, the first single off the album, was released worldwide on 2 May ^[43][44] "Little Bad Girl", with Taio Cruz and Ludacris, was released as the second single on 28 June ^[42][45] The third single, "Without You" with Usher, was released on 27 September Guetta has also released four promotional singles for Nothing But the Beat which were "Titanium" with Sia, "Lunar" with Afrojack, "Night of Your Life" with Jennifer Hudson, and "The Alphabeat".

The album also features the hit singles "Sweat" with Snoop Dogg and "Turn Me On" with Nicki Minaj.

Guetta teamed up with Afrojack and Tara McDonald again to release "Pandemonium" on his FMIF Ibiza Mix compilation through EMI records. ^[46] Guetta also performed alongside Nicky Romero and Nervo at London's Alexandra Palace on 1 June ^[47]

A re-release of Nothing but the Beat, titled Nothing but the Beat , was released on 7 September The first single from the album, "She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)", which saw Guetta collaborate with Sia yet again, was released in support of the album.^[48] The next single off Nothing But The Beat was confirmed by Guetta as "Just One Last Time" which features vocals from Swedish duo Taped Rai.^[49] In , Guetta also made an album named Nothing But The Beat: Ultimate, which combined the two albums Nothing But The Beat and Nothing But The Beat together.

Summer Guetta played in Finland in Weekend Festival and he was the festival's headliner also for year ^[50] 15 March saw the third single release from Nothing but the Beat entitled "Play Hard". The song features vocals from American singers Ne-Yo and Akon.^[51]

Nothing But the Beat^[52] is a feature-length biographical documentary about Guetta's rise to fame, featuring many of his collaborators, including Kelly Rowland, and Snoop Dogg.

It was financed by the energy drink, burn, with whom Guetta became a brand ambassador from Together with burn, Guetta also provided support and mentoring for the burn-sponsored "burn studios residency" program^[53] for up-and-coming DJs.

Guetta also wrote, produced, and featured on Rihanna's seventh studio album, Unapologetic, and acts as the support act for the European leg of her Diamonds World Tour.

In , Guetta created a new record label known as Jack Back Records, where he intends to focus only on electronic music releases (compared to the dance pop productions he's most known for).^[54][55] The label is named after a project Guetta started alongside Nicky Romero when they remixed the song "Wild Ones".

The premiere release of the new label was "Metropolis", another one of his collaboration with Romero, which also became a track from Nothing but the Beat . The label also included releases from the likes of Daddy's Groove and other collaborators, as well as a two-track EP from production duo Spencer & Hill.

All of the label's releases can be found on Beatport.^[56]

Lovers on the Sun EP

While on tour with Rihanna, he debuted his new track at Twickenham Stadium on 15 June Guetta stated "Twickenham, I hope you like this new track, it's brand new and you're the first people in the world to hear it." The single, called "Ain't a Party", was released on 8 July ^[57] It is a collaboration between GLOWINTHEDARK and Harrison.

Guetta released the artwork for his new single on his Instagram profile on 19 June

In September, Guetta unveiled the music video for new track "One Voice" featuring indie singer Mikky Ekko. It was released on 4 November as part of the UN's humanitarian campaign called The World Needs More.^[58]

Guetta co-wrote and produced the song "Fashion!" on Lady Gaga's third studio album Artpop.^[59] He also had songwriting and production contributions to Britney Spears' eighth studio album Britney Jean, on multiple tracks and instrumentation imitations.

On 20 January , Guetta released "Shot Me Down" featuring American singer Skylar Grey. It is an adaption of the Cher song "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)". The song was co-produced by Giorgio Tuinfort.

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In February, Guetta released a remix of Avicii's track "Addicted to You" on Beatport. Later that month, record label Cherrytree hinted through a message on Twitter that English singer-songwriter Natalia Kills was in a studio in Stockholm, Sweden, along with Guetta and Giorgio Tuinfort to record a new song.^[60] The trio was later joined by DJ Afrojack, and Avicii.^[61] On 17 March , he released "Bad", a collaboration with Showtek and Vassy on Jack Back Records, and released his remix of Afrojack's single "Ten Feet Tall" on 15 April.

Guetta released "Blast Off", with Kaz James on 14 June. It appeared on the four-track EP titled Lovers on the Sun he released later that month. The EP contains "Blast Off", "Shot Me Down", "Bad", and "Lovers on the Sun" featuring vocals from American singer Sam Martin.

– Listen and UEFA Euro

On 30 June , "Lovers on the Sun" saw official single release as the first single from Guetta's sixth studio album, Listen.^[62] The second single from the album, "Dangerous", (also featuring Sam Martin), was released as the second single from the album on 5 October ^[63] The album itself was released worldwide on 21 November through Big Beat Records and Atlantic Records with collaborations from prior favourites such as Sia, Afrojack, and Nicki Minaj as well as new collaborators like Ryan Tedder, Bebe Rexha, and The Script.^[64][65] The title track "Listen" (featuring John Legend) was co-written by Guetta and Austin Bis.

On 20 February , the third single from the album "What I Did for Love" featuring Emeli Sandé was issued.^[66] On 30 April , the song was released as a special version featuring vocals from Japanese singer Namie Amuro for her studio album Genic.^[67] In March , Guetta released the fourth single from Listen, entitled "Hey Mama".

It features the vocals of Nicki Minaj and Bebe Rexha, and also features Afrojack. The single proved successful, reaching the top ten in the UK and in the US. On 22 June , Guetta became the third artist to reach 2 billion streams on Spotify and released a remix of "Hey Mama" by Boaz van de Beatz to celebrate the occasion.^[68]

On 27 November , Guetta re-released Listen as Listen Again to promote the songs and then-recent singles "Sun Goes Down", "Pelican", "The Death of EDM", "Clap Your Hands" and a new version of "Bang My Head" featuring Fetty Wap alongside Sia.

In December , UEFA announced that Guetta would be the music ambassador for UEFA Euro , with the official song for the tournament being "This One's for You" featuring vocals from Swedish singer Zara Larsson. UEFA also announced that the song would be integrated throughout the tournament, including during the opening and closing sequences for every television match broadcast, and will also be performed by Guetta at the Opening ceremony and Closing ceremony, as well as during a free concert at the Champ de Mars under the Eiffel Tower on 9 June.^[69] "This One's for You" was released on 13 May ,^[70] followed by a remix pack on 8 July.^[71]

On 15 April , Guetta released a single with Disciples, titled "No Worries".

Later, on 16 May , saw Guetta released an extended mix of his song "Pelican" on his label Jack Back Records.

On 30 September , Guetta released a new single with Cedric Gervais and Chris Willis named "Would I Lie to You" on his label Jack Back Records. The song interpolates the vocals/lyrics of the Charles & Eddie hit "Would I Lie to You?".

also saw Guetta collaborate with German DJ Robin Schulz on the third single from Schulz's third album, Uncovered, entitled "Shed a Light" which also featured American DJs Cheat Codes. The song was released on 25 November and certified Gold and Platinum in various European countries.^[72]

– 7

On 24 March , Guetta released "Light My Body Up".

The single was his fourth collaboration with rapper Nicki Minaj and also featured Lil Wayne. The following month, on 28 April, Guetta released his collaboration with DJ Afrojack entitled "Another Life". The song featured singer Ester Dean. On 9 June , Guetta's single "2U" featuring Justin Bieber was released, this song was featured on Worldhit and marked the Top in over 40 countries as well as certifying Gold to Multi Platinum in many European and Oceanian countries.^[73] The end on the month saw Guetta release a remix version of "Versace on the Floor" by Bruno Mars and served as the third single from Mars's highly successful album 24K Magic.

During the summer, Guetta headlined Tomorrowland, providing a main stage performance for Night 3 on both weekends.^[74] In addition, he was a guest during Martin Garrix's closing set, during which they debuted their yet to be released single "So Far Away" which featured vocals from Jamie Scott and Ellie Goulding.

Guetta also had Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike join him on stage to premier their new song "Complicated" which was released on the Friday of the festival's second weekend. During this time Guetta, Vegas, and Mike also performed the latter two's long-awaited single with W&W: "Crowd Control".

On 3 November , Guetta and Afrojack released their single "Dirty Sexy Money" featuring Charli XCX and French Montana.

This song is David Guetta's 3rd single from his upcoming 7th studio album, which was released in He performed a live-version of his new single at the NRJ Music Awards and the MTV Europe Music Awards.

On 1 December , Guetta released the single "So Far Away" on Garrix's label Stmpd Rcrds. The single version contained vocals from Jamie Scott and Romy Dya.

Ellie Goulding's vocals were cut from the song as her label was pushing back the release. That is the reason why the two DJs decided to replace her and use the vocals of Romy Dya.^[75] On 25 January Guetta released a remix version of Sia's Helium along with Dutch DJ Afrojack.^[76] This marks Guetta's and Sia's sixth collaboration.

On 16 February , David Guetta released his new song "Mad Love", together with Sean Paul and Becky G. A few months before the release Sean Paul reported that Shakira would be the singer of the song, but she has been replaced by Becky G.^[77] A week later, Guetta released his second collaboration with Martin Garrix and Dutch DJ Brooks entitled "Like I Do".^[78] Guetta's seventh collaboration with Sia, "Flames", was released on 22 March ^[79]

On 29 June , Guetta announced in an interview with Billboard China that he was almost finished working on his seventh studio album and that it would be released after the summer of During that summer when he played Tomorrowland, a video emerged of Guetta apparently playing a remixed version of the Spanish Falangist anthem Cara al Sol used during Francisco Franco's dictatorship.

However, the video was confirmed to have been faked.^[80] On 23 August, Guetta confirmed the album's title as 7 and revealed its track list, including the singles "2U", "Like I Do", "Flames" and "Don't Leave Me Alone".^[81] The album also included the Bebe Rexha and J Balvin featured single, "Say My Name".

In December , Guetta led a DJ set at an Avicii tribute concert where he previewed a previously unheard collaboration with Avicii, Giorgio Tuinfort and Afrojack. In Guetta's own words, he played "Before I Say Goodbye" for the first and probably only time during the concert. It features British singer-songwriter Amanda Wilson.^[82]

–present: New Rave EP, United at Home and Future Rave

See also: Future Rave

On 11 September , David Guetta and Sia reunited for new single "Let's Love".^[83] The single was produced and recorded during isolation.^[84]

On 17 July , Guetta and Morten released their New Rave EP.^[85] Guetta and Morten started the new future rave sound movement in late Less than a year later, the duo amassed more than million combined streams.

It consists of four new tracks “Kill Me Slow”, “Nothing”, “Bombardment”, and “Odyssey”. Their record collection includes “Never Be Alone" feat Aloe Blacc, “Make It To Heaven” with Raye, the tribute remix of Avicii's “Heaven” and “Detroit 3 AM”.^[86]

On 18 April , Guetta performed poolside, overlooking the Downtown Miami skyline and the waters of the Biscayne Bay from his location at the Icon Brickell.^[87] Funds were raised for the World Health Organisation, Feeding South Florida, Feeding America, and the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris - Hôpitaux de France.^[88][89]

On 30 May , Guetta performed at New York City's Top of the Rock Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center for the second edition of United At Home to a virtual crowd of over 24 million to benefit COVID relief efforts.^[90] The event, titled "Major League Soccer and Heineken presents United at Home", raised half a million dollars for Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, Feeding America, World Health Organization and Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris - Hôpitaux de France.^[91] The performance was the second edition of “United At Home,” following Guetta's first fundraiser in Miami which raised more than US$, for global charities and drew more than 25 million online views.^[90] Funds raised went directly to The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, chaired by First Lady Chirlane McCray, which is New York City's official fundraising arm for COVID relief.^[92] However, Guetta was criticized for this performance, which included a shout-out to the family of George Floyd, followed by a fast-paced electronic dance tune which sampled a recording of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.^[93][94] Critics found this decision to be "tone-deaf."^[95]

On 7 November , Guetta won DJ Mag's annual Top DJs poll for the second time, almost a decade after he first took the No.1 spot in Guetta was presented his award during AMF Presents Top DJs, a virtual awards show in Amsterdam that was broadcast to the world.^[96] On 31 December , Guetta presented a New Year's Eve virtual concert from Musée du Louvre, United at Home – Paris Edition, as a fundraiser for UNICEF and Restos du Cœur.^[97] On 20 May , Guetta released his new single "Heartbreak Anthem" in collaboration with Little Mix and Galantis.^[98]

On 17 June , Warner Music acquired rights to Guetta's recorded music catalog from the last two decades.^[99]

In March , Guetta and Morten announced a joint US tour,^[] which concluded at EDC Las Vegas on 21 May ^[] They also announced a residency at Hï Ibiza to take place every Friday from 3 June to 30 September ^[]

On 8 April , Guetta released the song "Crazy What Love Can Do" with British singer-songwriters Becky Hill and Ella Henderson.^[] On 2 September , Guetta teamed up with British DJ and producer Sigala alongside British singer-songwriter Sam Ryder on the song "Living Without You".^[] On 27 October , Guetta released a house-influenced afrobeat single "Big FU" featuring Nigerian singer Ayra Starr and American rapper Lil Durk.^[][]

On 7 November , Guetta released the song "Supernova Love" with the South Korean girl group Ive.^[]

Discography

Main articles: David Guetta discography and David Guetta production discography

Tours

Personal life

Guetta married French nightclub manager Cathy Lobé in They had two children: son Tim Elvis Eric (born 9 February ) and daughter Angie (born 23 September ).^[] After 22 years of marriage, the couple divorced in a Paris court in March ^[] Neither party was present at the hearing and the reason for their divorce is unknown.^[]

In , Forbes estimated that Guetta's annual income was $37 million.^[] The same year, one of his companies was subject to a tax reassessment by the French Treasury.^[]

Guetta announced at the Latin Grammys that he was expecting a child with his long-term partner Jessica Ledon.^[] On 17 March , he announced the birth of their son, Cyan.^[]

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by David Guetta

References