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28 Unbelievable Facts about DJ David Guetta

Out of many popular DJs in the world, there are only a few who deserve receiving fame and credit for their phenomenal piece of work been done in the field of music and one of them is the successful, the sensational David Guetta. These days when it seems more like a trend that music is been used as a stair only to receive popularity, worth-listening music and appreciable rapping is a rare thing to expect from the newcomers. David Guetta is a popular DJ who enjoys being among the top 10 richest DJs in the world with a net-worth more than $30 Million. Here are a few unbelievable facts about DJ David Guetta that his followers might have had missed so far. Have a look!

Knowing DJ David Guetta

David Guetta is completely justifying being born on 7th November in Paris as the scorpion man, intensely passionate and totally calm and composed creature with smoldering passion underneath his outer layer of innocent looks. The French House Music producer was initially a DJ at nightclubs in Paris, but later decided to move on with singing and songwriting when Guetta’s first hit single “Just A Little More” has gone over 300,000 copies on demand. In 1990 when he was influencing the rise of house music he met his wife Cathy Guetta who gave him two beautiful children living in Paris with a net worth of $30 million. He is best known for F*ck Me I’M Famous.
A closer looks at His Achievements


The French superstar DJ and multi selling artist, combining daft punk’s sleek house music with a twist of electro clash’s punch has been on Forbes list of Greatest DJ’s of World. He has successfully managed to market house music by sugar coating it with R&B vocals and commercial hip hop sounds to pop fans in US. His impressive achievements are:
2012- Favorite Electronic Dance Music
In 2007-2008 he won best International Male Solo Artist.
His recent album’s first single ‘When Loves Takes over’ nested him a 2 Grammy as a producer.
Co-produced The Black Eyed Peas’ recent No.1 hit ‘I Gotta Feeling’
‘Sexy Bitch’ featured R&B singer Akon, reaching No.5 in US pop charts.


DJ Magazine called 2009 Guetta’s ‘Year Zero’ came third in the magazine’s top 100 DJs poll.
‘Memories’, ‘When Loves Takes Over You’, ‘Getting Over You’ and Sexy Bitch was listing No.1 in the UK top charts and becoming top five hits in US and selling three million copies worldwide.
The same year when he founded Gum Production, his first hit single “Just a little more love’ had gone over 300,000 copies
Guetta has sold over 3 million albums and 15 million singles worldwide.
He was voted as No.1 DJ in the ‘DJ Mag Top 100 DJ’s fan poll’ in 2011.
In 2007 he won “World’s Best Selling DJ in the World” Music Award.
Unbelievable facts about DJ David Guetta


1) Currently ought on an odyssey of competition to encourage people to follow him, those 100,000 twitter followers will get to meet Guetta in person.

2) Has over two million fans on facebook.

3) He has recently tipped over 10 million friends on Facebook in 2 months alone.

4) Last October he launched his own iPhone App that allow his fans to remix his tracks on their phones.

5) His app allows his fans to stay up-to-date with his latest Twitter shots and tour movements, as well allow them to purchase his music.

6) He has three production bases in Paris, London and Ibiza.

7) Began hosting parties at the age of 13 in his basements.

8) Start DJing at the age of 17.

9) He got 5 million twitter followers.

10) Have over 33 million Facebook likes and 889 million You Tube views.

11) He has been igniting the Europe’s Dance clubs for two decades now.

12) He writes many of his songs in aero plane that he title works in progress after reaching a destination.

13) He needs only his laptop to create his club hits.

14) He is a son of parents who were psychologist and a sociology professor.

15) Had worked in most glamorous nightclubs around the world, taking home jaw-dropping pay cheques.

16) On his dressing room rider there are always couple of bottles of Veuve Clicquot champagne, even his friends barely see him eating.

17) He was the first one crossing boundaries of playing dance music on radio.

18) His highly successful club cum lifestyle brand is the first Ibiza party stop for Holidaying celebrities.

19) His favorite phrase, Bras de Faire, means arms wrestling.

20) His essential suitcase items, microphone, MacBook Pro and little Apogee.

21) He is the first ever DJ to be on the cover of Bill Board Magazine.

22) He is credited for producing people like Madonna, Rihanna, Kylie Minogue and Jennifer Lopez.

23) He has a passion for sporting foot wares.

24) The thrifty and down to earth superstar is a non smoker and non-drinking music producer.

25) He released the artwork for his new single on his Instagram profile.

26) He ranked 3rd in the list of Top Djs in 2009 and then 2nd in 2010 and finally residing at 1st place in the list in 2011.

27) He has been consistently winning World’s best selling DJ, Best DJ, Best Producer and Best Selling French artist of the World.

28) There is no history ever found on his schooling and graduation.

Pop music is all well and good obviously but Guetta still has a club DJ heart. Pop life can be cool but there is nothing he loves more than DJing for people. Whether or not he will be both, a big pop star, and a flawless club DJ, only time will tell.

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David Guetta Biography

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Overview

Date of Birth 7 November 1967, Paris, France
Birth Name Pierre David Guetta
Height 5' 9¼" (1,76 m)

Mini Bio 
David Guetta was born on November 7, 1967 in Paris, France as Pierre David Guetta. He was previously married to Cathy Guetta.

Spouse 
Cathy Guetta (29 July 1992 - 2014) (divorced) (2 children)

Trivia
Is a member of the five famous Dj in the world.
Younger brother of actress Natalie Guetta.
Has supported Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign.
Winner of Best House/Garage Track, Best Breaks/Electro Track (for the single, "Love is Gone") - International Dance Music Awards.
Has two children with former wife Cathy Guetta: - a son Tim-Elvis (09/02/2004) and a daughter Angie (23/09/2007).
Nominated for Best French Act and Best Song (for "When Love Takes Over") with Kelly Rowland, MTV Europe Music Awards.
Had to cancel a world tour due to losing the USB drive he'd saved his musical set onto.

Personal Quotes 
So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.
I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

Actually, because of new technologies, my full studio is on my laptop. And I have a little keyboard in my bag. I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

When you're too relaxed it's not good to create.

Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

Our job as producers is to make the music sound as good as possible.

Kids listen to everything on the Internet.

It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

I'm not limited.

I wanna be a nice guy.

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

I want to party in space because I make alien music.

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.
I am trying to walk a tightrope; trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

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DAVID GUETTA TOPS THIS YEAR'S LIST OF THE BOTTOM 100 DJS



David Guetta, the world's No. 1 bottom DJ
Photo by Timothy Norris

In what has quickly become the EDM world's equivalent to the Razzies, the annual "Bottom 100 DJs" poll was released today, and a new but familiar face tops the list: David Guetta, who placed fourth last year. The list, which was rolled out via Twitter, also included last year's "winner," Deadmau5, at No. 2, celeb DJ Paris Hilton at No. 3 and EDM superstars Hardwell and Martin Garrix returning to the top 10.

A parody of much-maligned DJ Mag's annual "Top 100 DJs" poll (topped for the past two years by Hardwell), the list was created by Stefan Engblom, one half of the Swedish EDM duo Dada Life. Despite frequently appearing on the Top 100 DJs list themselves, Engblom and his partner, Olle Cornéer, were frustrated with how it had ballooned into a popularity contest that they felt was "taking the fun" out of the DJ world.

"The campaigning people do and the ads that they put on the net, they take it too seriously," Engblom explains, speaking to L.A. Weekly in Los Angeles the day before the Bottom 100 DJs results were released. Ironically, a giant Hardwell billboard, advertising his Hakkasan residency in Las Vegas, looks down on where we're sitting, near Sunset and Highland.

"Me and Olle, we spend too much time in airports and airplanes, thinking about stupid ideas," he continues. So they hatched the idea for a Top 100 DJs piss-take, and launched their first poll anonymously in 2013. Since then, the Bottom 100 DJs poll has taken on a life of its own; this year's poll claims to have garnered more than 100,000 votes from 117 countries.

Last year's bottom DJ, Deadmau5, "took it in a fun way," Engblom says. It's hard to say how Guetta will respond, but in our experience, the French EDM star does have a sense of humor about his critics; in 2011, his lighting technician told a Weekly reporter that he had read a takedown of his song "Without You" in this publication and found it "hilarious."

Dada Life are no strangers to big, attention-grabbing projects. They threw a world record–breaking pillow fight in Chicago once that required a year of planning and 5,000 pillows. This past summer, they invited fans to show up to their San Bernardino festival, the Voyage, in banana suits. That was a record-breaking gathering, too. "For us, it's not a gimmick, it's natural," Engblom says.

Raised in Stockholm, Engblom initially wanted to work in the circus. Instead, he studied computer science. Life, however, takes weird turns. "I feel like I became a part of this crazy circus," he says.

The poll itself is in keeping with what Dada Life hope to accomplish in the dance scene. "When we started Dada Life, DJs were too serious, standing up in the DJ booth, smoking and looking like they're having no fun, not moving at all," says Engblom. "This is not what music is about."

In other words: If DJs are going to get super-serious about a little magazine poll, then Dada Life will create one that you really can't take seriously. Sometimes the responses have little to do with DJs, which is part of the fun. In the 2014 Bottom 100, "your mom" came in at No. 60; this year, Deadmau5's cat, Professor Meowingtons, ranked at No. 5, and "me" was No. 57, proving that many voters apparently realize their own DJ skills are even crappier than, say, Borgore's.

Engblom is excited as he talks about the potential that Bottom 100 has. "Next year, I can't say too much, but we have more plans if it keeps on growing, because it's so much fun," he says.

The 2015 poll wasn't out when Engblom spoke to L.A. Weekly, and he insisted that even he did not yet know the final results — though Dada Life had been campaigning hard for bottom honors. "Fingers crossed that we're ranked as high as possible."

Well, good news, Dada Life: You came in at No. 9, up from No. 13 last year. You even beat out Pauly D and Justin Bieber! Congrats.

Bottom 100 DJs - The Top 10:

1. David Guetta
2. Deadmau5
3. Paris Hilton
4. Vinai
5. Professor Meowingtons
6. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
7. Hardwell
8. Martin Garrix
9. Dada Life
10. DVBBS

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DJ David Guetta



There are few DJs in the world that create the reaction that David Guetta sparks. Whether it’s 50,000 fans singing along to his hit records at the recent massive Stade De France stadium Unighted über-party, or dark rooms of clubbers locked in the groove nine hours into his set, Guetta gets passions flowing. That’s because he uniquely and boldly treads a tightrope most DJs wouldn’t dare to traverse: the line between being an underground DJ and having huge crossover success.
That might not sound like two worlds that go together, but David flits between French prime-time TV appearances, deep sets at Space Miami and producing music that appeals to clubbers and also way beyond with apparent ease. That he won a World Music Award and was voted the best house DJ in the DJmag Top 100 in the same year is a credit to his ability to work in both of these seemingly disparate worlds.
“I’m not trying to be credible,” David admits with a smile broadening across his soft, open face. “I’m trying to be incredible. It’s very easy to be underground because you just have to obey a set of codes. It’s very formulaic. But it’s also very easy to be totally pop, because it’s very formulaic too. I’m trying to do something different.”
And it’s working. With DJ sets at hundreds of the coolest clubs each year and record sales clocking in at more than three million singles and almost 2 million albums – half a million of which are for his latest artist long player ‘Pop Life’ – it’s clear that his own path is a fruitful one. A huge star in France for over a decade, David is following that success worldwide. In America for example all of ‘Pop Life’s singles smashed into the Billboard Dance airplay top ten and Love Is Gone refused to leave the No.1 spot on iTunes Dance USA for three months – while the album went gold in multiple territories across Europe. Guetta is also the most requested artist for summer compilations on the whole of EMI. With around 50 million hits on YouTube (and climbing fast), David is as popular outside of nightclubs as he is in them. In fact, David’s video’s hold the Number 1 and No 3 spots in the most watched Electronica clips on Youtube – worldwide and of all time!
This summer has seen Guetta play to an incredible array of people, calling in at Love Parade, Bahia Carnival, Queensday, Techno Parade and Global Gathering. That adds up to around 4,500,000 dancers before you even count the club gigs or the Pacha Ibiza residency! It’s such a buzz playing to big crowds, but he’s never out of a club for too long.

“At the Brazil carnival I spun to two million people and I’ve played to up to 200,000 a few times,” he says with pride but without arrogance. “It feels very good, of course, because of the energy you receive from the people. At first I wanted to play only to the biggest crowds possible, because it’s like a drug. Now I balance the big shows with more intimate club gigs were I can play more new sounds. The big venues are great but sometimes playing to so many people forces you to repeat the same tricks.”
That explains a lot about David Guetta. He’s wants to entertain as many people as possible – show everyone a great time – but never at the expense of being a DJ. Of all the parts of his renaissance life it’s this that is key – he’s a DJ first, everything else follows.
One of his favourite gigs was during his phenomenal US tour. After playing three hours of his biggest and best at Crobar Miami he dived over to Space to go deep for another six hours.
“Playing those two gigs was like the two basics of DJing,” he explains, “the raw energy of super dynamic mixes and party tracks for Crobar, and taking people on a trip with long, deep mixes at Space.”
It’s not uncommon for David to stay on the decks after he’s thrown down his big party set so he can play all the other records that he adores. After a couple of hours of big drops, singalongs, arms in the air, screaming and accapellas being sliced and diced, he’s got the crowd where he wants them and for the next one, two, three hours he’s going to take them on a groove.
“And that’s the part I love most!” he laughs.
To see Guetta wind a room into a frenzy is something special. With an unrivalled connection to the crowd he’ll direct them like a puppet-master, driving their hands in the air as he works CDJs, EQs and effects in a way that sounds more like someone using Ableton. That’s something that has escaped a lot of people: technically David is one of the most impressive DJs in the house scene. Almost remixing records live, he makes loops, slams tracks together that you’d never think would go and uses vocals over other instrumentals. His sets are so dynamic that at times it’s difficult to see how he can keep the energy up. To put it simply, Guetta creates moments. And that’s why when you look out over one of his crowds you see smiles and hands shaped into heart signs. When you give people a night to remember they love you for it.
When you get this close to Guetta, it’s clear he’s really not about the cash, or the glamour or the pop star life. A much softer, more emotional and easy going man some of the press want him to be. He doesn’t want to dazzle people, he wants to touch them.
“Everything I’m trying to do – in my DJing, my production – is about sharing emotion. When I’m making music in the studio that’s all I’m looking for. It’s what matters the most. I’m just a nice person really, you know!”
Nice, yes. And passionate and real. The media wants to stick him in a convenient box as a glamorous star, but Guetta refuses to slot into any pigeonhole – except maybe one: DJ.

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David Guetta turns 48: Why the world's most famous DJ will put his kids first



David Guetta reflects on his family, career, and changing sound. Photo: Parlophone
Dance music 'the new standard of pop': Guetta
David Guetta releases sixth album Listen

Forget everything you thought you knew about David Guetta.

As the world's most famous DJ, the French hitmaker is associated with drug-fuelled music festivals, trashy club beats and over-the-top video clips.


David Guetta in 2012.

But in real life, 48-year-old Guetta is a picture of health and energy. His eyes are bright despite playing a show the night before, and his youthful face belies the fact he is nearing 50.
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Guetta is the antithesis of what you would expect: humble, charming, genuine and a non-drinker.

The veteran DJ has churned out hit after hit over the past decade, defining a generation of music. In the process, he's accumulated a worth of of $US30 million and 78 million followers on social media.


On stage with Ed Sheeran in Las Vegas earlier this year. Photo: Instagram/@davidguetta

But Guetta remains a mysterious man. He acknowledges he didn't explode onto the international music scene until "pretty late" with 2008's I Gotta Feeling with the Black Eyed Peas.

Since then, he's collaborated with the biggest names in the music industry including Sia, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Usher to name a few.

When asked if he brought electronic dance music to the masses, Guetta doesn't pretend to be coy.


Playing to a crowd in Ibiza. The DJ says he wants to spend more time with his children next year. Photo: Instagram/@davidguetta

"Of course, absolutely. That's a fact," he tells Fairfax Media.

"I really helped our music cross over. When I made Titanium with Sia, she was not as hugely popular as she is today. Sometimes we make records and they change both our lives, and that's what a good collaboration should be."

Despite approaching 50 in what is largely a young man's game, Guetta isn't making any plans to slow down either.


David Guetta after winning a Grammy Award in 2011. Photo: act\aurora.daniels

"It's not about my age. It's more about - I think I want to spend more time in the studio."

"Maybe next year, but the thing is I love being on stage so much, so it's always a battle between the two."

The jetset lifestyle has definitely taken its toll. In the summer of 2014, Guetta was playing several continents a week, leaving him jetlagged for months on end. It was also the year his marriage of 22 years broke down.

"Lately, it's been more touring than studio and I think now I'm going to balance it in a different way. But my life is still all about music."

His son and daughter, aged 11 and 8, also have something to do with the change of heart.

"This is also what makes me say I want to spend more time in the studio because it allows me to have a little more of a routine and see my kids more."

"Now they're starting to grow up and they need me around more, that's why I want that."

You get the sense that Guetta is maturing. He has tried to reinvent himself on his latest album, Listen, including more piano ballads and departing for the harsh dance sound which made him famous.

"Honestly, I feel like people are always going to dance. It's just a question of terminology. Electronic dance music has been associated with a certain sound, very hard and very aggressive, and that it's not neccessarily the biggest and the coolest thing right now."

Could it also be that Guetta is simply sick of playing the same songs night after night?

"I'm always trying to find the right balance between emotion and energy. That's the key to my success. Everybody has a different trick. When I manage this, then I'm happy."

"When I'm on stage and when I feel like it doesn't matter if we're 5- 10- or 100,000 people, when I have this moment where everybody feels like one, that's magic.

"I live for this."

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