David Guetta

David Guetta

French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster (2004) and Pop Life (2007).

His 2009 album One Love included the hit singles "When Love Takes Over" (featuring Kelly Rowland), "Gettin' Over You" (featuring Chris Willis, Fergie and LMFAO followed.

Guetta's fifth studio album, Nothing But the Beat was released on 30 August 2011. It was... read more

French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster (2004) and Pop Life (2007).

His 2009 album One Love included the hit singles "When Love Takes Over" (featuring Kelly Rowland), "Gettin' Over You" (featuring Chris Willis, Fergie and LMFAO followed.

Guetta's fifth studio album, Nothing But the Beat was released on 30 August 2011. It was released as a double-disc album; one disc being vocal and the other being electronic. The French DJ was inspired by rock bands such as Kings of Leon and Coldplay to add rock influences to his dance productions. "Where Them Girls At" featuring Nicki Minaj and Flo Rida, the first single off the album, was released worldwide on 2 May 2011.

"Little Bad Girl" featuring Ludacris and Taio Cruz, was released as the second single on 28 June 2011. The third single "Without You" featuring Usher was released on 27 September 2011. Guetta also released three promotional singles for Nothing But the Beat, "Titanium" featuring Sia, "Lunar" with Afrojack and "Night of Your Life" featuring Jennifer Hudson. The album also features the hit singles "Sweat" with Snoop Dogg and "Turn Me On" with Nicki Minaj.

Also last year David teamed up with Afrojack and Tara McDonald Tara McDonald again to release "Pandemonium" on his FMIF Ibiza mix 2011 compilation through EMI records.

Guetta is also scheduled to perform alongside Nicky Romero and Nervo at London's Alexandra Palace on 1 June 2012.

A re-release of Nothing but the Beat, titled Nothing But The Beat 2.0, was released on September 7, 2012. The first single from the album, "She Wolf (Falling to Pieces)" which saw Guetta collaborate with Sia again was released in support of the album. The next single off Nothing But The Beat 2.0 has been confirmed by Guetta as "Just One Last Time" which features vocals from Taped Rai.

In 2012 Guetta also made an album named 'Nothing But The Beat: Ultimate', which combined the two albums 'Nothing But The Beat 2.0' and 'Nothing But The Beat' together. It also featured the song 'Play Hard' featuring Ne-Yo and Akon.

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

Whilst on tour with Rihanna, he debuted his new track at Twickenham Stadium on 15 June 2013. 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 2013. It is a collaboration between GLOWINTHEDARK and Harrison. Guetta released the artwork for his new single on his Instagram profile on 19 June 2013.

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.

Guetta co-wrote and produced the song "Fashion!" on Lady Gaga's third studio album Artpop. He also had songwriting and production contributions to Britney Spears' eighth studio album Britney Jean. On 20 January 2014, Guetta released "Shot Me Down" featuring American singer Skylar Grey. It is an adaption of the Nancy Sinatra song "Bang Bang". The song was co-produced by Giorgio Tuinfort.

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. The trio was later joined by DJ Afrojack, and Avicii. On 17 March 2014, 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" with Skylar Grey, "Bad" , and "Lovers on the Sun" with Sam Martin. His sixth studio album, Listen, was released worldwide on 21 November 2014 through Big Beat Records and Atlantic Records. Guetta co-wrote the title track "Listen" with Austin Bis. "Dangerous" featuring Sam Martin, was released as the third single from the album on 5 October 2014. On Jan. 15 Ne-Yo released a track called Who's Taking You Home Co-Produced by DG. show less