<p>French electronic music producer David Guetta rose to prominence atop the sparkling wave of DJs who combined <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Daft Punk</a>'s sleek house music with a pinch of electroclash punch at the start of the 21st century. Achieving international crossover success during the late-2000s EDM boom with chart-toppers One Love and Nothing But the Beat, his house anthems became fixtures on the dance charts into the 2010s, often featuring famous names from the worlds of pop and rap, including frequent collaborators <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Nicki Minaj</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Sam Martin</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Sia</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Morten</a>, Chris Willis, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Rihanna</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Kelly Rowland</a>, and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Afrojack</a>. Along with the latter two artists, Guetta also won a pair of Grammy Awards in 2011. In 2020, he released the EP New Rave and teamed up with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Sia</a> for the ebullient international synthwave/pop hit "Let's Love." In 2022, he hit the Top Ten of Billboard's Hot 100 with "I'm Good (Blue)" featuring <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Bebe Rexha</a>. A native of Paris, the artist born Pierre David Guetta had been DJing around France playing popular tunes, but his brain was particularly rewired in 1987 when he heard a <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Farley Jackmaster Funk</a> track on French radio. He taped the track, brought a copy to a gig, and promptly cleared the floor with it during one of his own sets. Things loosened up a year later when acid house came to France and Guetta successfully promoted his own club nights. It was during one of those nights in 1992 that he met <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Robert Owens</a>, a Chicago-based house legend who was touring Europe at the time. Guetta played <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Owens</a> some of his own tracks, and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Owens</a> picked one he liked enough to sing over. The result was "Up and Away," a minor hit that lurked in garage DJ crates for the next four years. Guetta's carefree attitude -- that he only produces good music while he's having casual fun -- kept the DJ from releasing anything until 2001's "Just a Little More Love." The track featured American gospel singer Chris Willis, who'd met Guetta while on vacation in France. Another slow-burner, "Just a Little More Love," kept popping up in sets for the next two years, first in an electro version and later in a pumped-up <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Wally Lopez</a> remix. During this time, Guetta snuck out a bootleg remix of <a rel="noopener noreferrer">David Bowie</a>'s "Heroes," retitled "Just for One Day." <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Bowie</a> gave the go-ahead to release the track officially, and Guetta soon had a massive hit on his hands. Guetta featured the liberated boot on his first mix CD, Fuck Me I'm Famous, named after Guetta's successful Ibiza-based party. The fun-loving slacker DJ finally got around to releasing a collection of his own productions in 2004, Just a Little More Love on <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Astralwerks</a>. Guetta Blaster arrived that same year, followed by Poplife in 2007. Chris Willis sang lead vocals on the latter album, which spun off multiple dance singles in multiple countries. Fuck Me I'm Famous: International, Vol. 2 was then released in July 2008, giving listeners a taste of the stylish sounds that orchestrated Guetta's summer club events in Ibiza. A year later, he released One Love, a platinum-selling album featuring the singles "When Love Takes Over" with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Kelly Rowland</a>, "Sexy Bitch" with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Akon</a>, and "Gettin' Over" with Chris Willis. In 2010, Guetta received five nominations at the 52nd Grammy Awards, two of them related to the One Love album and the other three for his work on <a rel="noopener noreferrer">the Black Eyed Peas</a>' massive worldwide hit "I Gotta Feeling." That same year, One Love was reissued as One More Love, featuring a bonus disc of remixes and new tracks. A superstar guest list -- featuring <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Akon</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Lil Wayne</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Flo Rida</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Usher</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Chris Brown</a>, and others -- would figure into his 2011 release Nothing But the Beat, but this time the DJ's songwriting was inspired by dramatic rock bands like <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Coldplay</a>. In 2014, Guetta released three singles on his own <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Jack Back</a> label, all of which were rounded up on that year's Lovers on the Sun EP. Later that year, Guetta released his sixth studio album, Listen. Perhaps as a reaction to inadvertently finding himself a sort of unofficial godfather to the burgeoning EDM movement, the record saw him branching out of his electro-house comfort zone, experimenting with elements of hip-hop, alternative rock, R&amp;B, and acoustic instrumentation, and featuring guest artists as diverse as <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Nicki Minaj</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Emeli Sandé</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Sia</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">the Script</a>, and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Ladysmith Black Mambazo</a>. In 2015, the LP was reissued as Listen Again with new songs and remixes added to the track list, including "Bang My Head" featuring <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Fetty Wap</a> and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Sia</a>. Over the next few years, Guetta issued a continuous stream of singles. In 2016, notable releases included the official UEFA Euro anthem "This One's for You" featuring <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Zara Larsson</a>, which topped the charts in France, Germany, and Switzerland; "Shed a Light" with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Robin Schulz</a> and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Cheat Codes</a>; and "No Worries" with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Disciples</a>. The following year, Guetta issued a handful of additional collaborations with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Nicki Minaj</a> and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Lil Wayne</a> ("Light My Body Up"), <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Afrojack</a> ("Another Life"), <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Justin Bieber</a> (the platinum "2U"), <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Kiiara</a> ("Complicated"), and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Charli XCX</a> and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">French Montana</a> ("Dirty Sexy Money"). He kicked off 2018 with a pair of <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Sia</a> collaborations (a remix of "Helium" and "Flames"), while also scoring another Top Ten hit for "Mad Love" with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Sean Paul</a> and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Becky G</a>. His seventh set, the aptly titled 7, arrived in September. In addition to including a some of his previously released singles -- "2U" and "Flames" among them -- Guetta also recruited Anne-Marie, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Bebe Rexha</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">J Balvin</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Jason Derulo</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Martin Garrix</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Jess Glynne</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Steve Aoki</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Lil Uzi Vert</a>, <a rel="noopener noreferrer">G-Eazy</a>, and many more for the effort. A bonus second disc of material was also bundled with 7, collecting a dozen tracks recorded as his alter ego <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Jack Back</a>. Early 2019 saw Guetta team up with Spanish DJ <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Tom Staar</a> for the single "This Ain't Techno." The EP New Rave arrived in July 2020 and included the track "Kill Me Slow" featuring <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Morten</a>. Later that year he worked with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Sia</a> on the Top Ten dance single "Let's Love." More well-received singles followed, including 2021's "Heartbreak Anthem" with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Galantis</a> and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Little Mix</a>, 2021's "Remember" with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Becky Hill</a>, and 2022's "Crazy What Love Can Do," again with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Hill</a> and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Ella Henderson</a>. Also in 2022, he released "You Can't Change Me" with <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Morten</a> and <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Raye</a> and topped the Hot Digital Songs chart alongside <a rel="noopener noreferrer">Bebe Rexha</a> with "I'm Good (Blue)." Guetta appeared on multiple charts in 2023 with "Baby Don't Hurt Me," a collaboration with British singer Anne-Marie and American rapper Coi that sampled Haddaway's 1993 hit "What Is Love." ~ Neil Z. Yeung</p>

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