David Guetta
1984–2000: Early life and career
At age 17, Guetta began DJing at the Broad Club in Paris.[3] He first played popular songs, and he discovered house music when he heard aFarley master Funk track on French radio in 1987. The next year, he began hosting his own club nights.[4] In 1990, he released "Nation Rap", a hip-hop collaboration with French rapper SidneyDuteil.[5]
In the mid 1990's Guetta played in clubs including Le Centrale, the Rex, Le Boy, and Folies Pigalle.[3][6] Released in 1994[5] Guetta's second single, a collaboration withAmerican house vocalist Robert Owens titled "Up & Away", was a minor club hit.[4] In 1994, David Guetta became the manager of Le Palace nightclub and he continued to organise parties thereand in other clubs, such as the "Scream" parties in Les Bains Douches.[7]
2001–2006: Just a Little More Love and Guetta Blaster
In 2001, David Guetta along with Joachim Garraud foundedGum 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 hemet Guetta.[4] 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 single, "Love Don't Let Me Go", was releasedin 2002. Guetta released a compilation, Fuck 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".[4]Later in his career, Guetta continued recording compilations under that title.
Guetta's second album, Guetta Blaster, was released in 2004 and contained "The World is Mine" featuring JDDavis. In 2006 "Love Don't Let Me Go" was released as a mash-up with the Tocadisco remix of "Walking Away" by The Egg. The mash-up single charted higher than the original release of the
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