David Guetta

Pierre David Guetta (, ; born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ and record producer.

He has sold over 10 million albums and 65 million singles globally, with more than 14 billion streams.

Along with Garraud, Guetta remixed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1980 hit "Enola Gay" for The OMD Singles (2003).

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 1987, he released "Nation Rap", a hip-hop collaboration with French rapper Sidney Duteil.

In the mid-1990s Guetta played in clubs including Le Centrale, the Rex, Le Boy, and Folies Pigalle.

Released in 1994 Guetta's second single, a collaboration with American house vocalist Robert Owens titled "Up & Away", was a minor club hit.

In 1994, 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.

In 2001, 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.

Willis was vacationing in France when he met Guetta.

He released his debut album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002.

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 singles, ("Love Don't Let Me Go", "People Come People Go" and "Give Me Something"), were released in 2002.

Guetta released a compilation, F*ck 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.

Later, he released Guetta Blaster (2004) and Pop Life (2007).

Guetta's second album, Guetta Blaster, was released in 2004.

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 2006 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.

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.

Guetta achieved mainstream success with his fourth album One Love (2009), which included his breakthrough singles "When Love Takes Over," "Gettin' Over You" (with Chris Willis featuring LMFAO and Fergie), "Sexy Bitch" (featuring Akon) and "Memories" (featuring Kid Cudi); the former three reached number one in the United Kingdom.

According to EMI in 2010, the album has sold a total of 530,000 copies worldwide.

In 2011, 2020, 2021 and 2023, Guetta was voted the number one DJ in the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll.

His 2011 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 2013, Billboard ranked his song "When Love Takes Over" (featuring Kelly Rowland) as the number one dance-pop collaboration of all time.

In 2018, he released his seventh album 7, which included twelve tracks under his alias Jack Back.

In 2019, he announced his creation of the EDM subgenre "future rave" along with fellow producer Morten Breum; they released a collaborative extended play, New Rave in July 2020.

In 2022, 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.

Guetta's accolades include two Grammy Awards, an American Music Award and a Billboard Music Award.

In June 2021, Guetta sold his recorded music catalog for an amount in the region of US$100 million, with Music Business Worldwide citing a source saying it was more than that, but less than US$150 million.

Guetta was born and raised in Paris.

Guetta's father, Pierre, was a sociologist who was born in a Moroccan Jewish family.

His mother, Monique, was of Belgian descent.

Through his father, Guetta is the younger half-brother of the prominent French journalist Bernard Guetta and French-Italian actress Nathalie Guetta.

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.

Guetta began to DJ at the Broad Club in Paris.