David Guetta

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Pierre David Guetta was born in 1967 in Paris, where he also grew up. He is a French DJ and producer. His father was a sociologist from a Moroccan-Jewish family, and his mother was of Belgian descent. His debut album Just a Little More Love appeared in 2002. Guetta Blaster followed in 2004 and Pop Life in 2007. More than once he was voted the world's best DJ in the DJ Mag polls, including in 2011 and 2020.

Music and breakthrough

His breakthrough to the general public came with the fourth album One Love in 2009. It included When Love Takes Over with Kelly Rowland, Gettin' Over You, Sexy Bitch with Akon and Memories with Kid Cudi. The first three reached number one in England. The fifth album Nothing but the Beat from 2011 had hits such as Where Them Girls At, Without You with Usher, Titanium with Sia and Turn Me On with Nicki Minaj. In 2018 came 7, with twelve tracks under his alias Jack Back. In 2022 he released I'm Good (Blue) with Bebe Rexha.

Influence

Guetta combines dance music with singers from pop and hip hop. In 2019, together with the producer Morten Breum, he came up with the subgenre future rave. In 2021 he sold his music catalogue. He won two Grammys. In 2013 Billboard ranked When Love Takes Over among the best dance-pop collaborations of all time. His work shows how electronic dance music gained a permanent place in pop music in the 2000s.

Listening

Discography

Studio albums

• 2002Just a Little More Love
• 2004Guetta Blaster
• 2004People (Jet Set 2) : Le Son d’Ibiza (soundtrack)
• 2007Pop Life
• 2009One Love
• 2011Nothing but the Beat
• 2014Listen
• 20187

Mentioned in other articles

• Take Over Control SongA few months later Afrojack, together with David Guetta, won a Grammy for a remix of Madonna.

See also

• Take Over Control