DAVID GUETTA
David Guetta is sans doute one of France's most popular artists and socialites, together with his businesswoman and nightlife queen wife Cathy. David was born on 7 November 1967 in Paris, France.
Born to a Jewish-Moroccan family, David's life has always been connected to music. At the age of 13, he started collecting vinyls and began his experiments in mixing. And four years later, 17-year-old David landed his first residency at the Broad club Paris. At that time, Broad was a very hip club for gays, with the most outrageous parties. Then, Broad club becoming too small for his ambitions and his growing public, David started invading Rex Club with his friend Kien, and soon after they transformed the old cabaret of Folies Pigalle into a happening nightclub, a place all Parisians absolutely got to be every weekend.
Two years after, David and Kien took the artistic direction of a new, giant gay club on the famous Champs-Élysées, the Queen, and he soon met the woman who would alter his life forever : Cathy.
Cathy was everything David had always been looking for. Exotic and beautiful (she's of Afro-European descendances, with a father from Cameroon and Senegal origins and a mother coming from the French Alsace), elegant and intelligent, very well connected, good in networking and most of all, a real entrepreneuse, Cathy would be David's key to commercial stardom. In later interviews, he would always say that he owes all his successes to the woman who stands behind him since more than seventeen years : the one and only Cathy. They got married in 1992, and for ten long years they conquered the world together, making the world's most extravagant parties, running some of Paris's most fab venues such as the Pink Paradise and les Bains-Douches.
In 2001, though, some events changed their life. David was diagnosed with a rare virus that could lead to acute cardiac failure, and that was the point they decided to stop running the clubs and started a new life. They sold all their clubs and almost all their properties, David began to produce music more seriously and together they started new parties in Ibiza called "F*** Me I'm Famous".
Later in 2002, David released his first global single that exploded across five continents : Love Don't Let Me Go, included in his first album Just A Little More Love. He instantly jumped on the top of the British DJmag list, being the only French that reached top ranks in such short time. In 2004, a second album was due, called the Guetta Blaster, with several hit singles, The World Is Mine, Money, and Stay.
And Summer 2007 was truly a peak of international successes for the Guetta family. David became the first DJ who did a set on a plane from Paris to Ibiza, and his third album Pop Life gets an instant hit, topping charts everywhere. During almost a year he toured around the world promoting Pop Life, playing the world's most famous, most luxurious venues. From this album, he has already released three singles : Love Is Gone, Baby When The Light, and Delirious.
Today, David Guetta still mixes weekly on air at the FG DJ Radio and Fun Radio. He lives in Paris with Cathy and their kids, Tim-Elvis (4) and Angie (8 months).
Born to a Jewish-Moroccan family, David's life has always been connected to music. At the age of 13, he started collecting vinyls and began his experiments in mixing. And four years later, 17-year-old David landed his first residency at the Broad club Paris. At that time, Broad was a very hip club for gays, with the most outrageous parties. Then, Broad club becoming too small for his ambitions and his growing public, David started invading Rex Club with his friend Kien, and soon after they transformed the old cabaret of Folies Pigalle into a happening nightclub, a place all Parisians absolutely got to be every weekend.
Two years after, David and Kien took the artistic direction of a new, giant gay club on the famous Champs-Élysées, the Queen, and he soon met the woman who would alter his life forever : Cathy.
Cathy was everything David had always been looking for. Exotic and beautiful (she's of Afro-European descendances, with a father from Cameroon and Senegal origins and a mother coming from the French Alsace), elegant and intelligent, very well connected, good in networking and most of all, a real entrepreneuse, Cathy would be David's key to commercial stardom. In later interviews, he would always say that he owes all his successes to the woman who stands behind him since more than seventeen years : the one and only Cathy. They got married in 1992, and for ten long years they conquered the world together, making the world's most extravagant parties, running some of Paris's most fab venues such as the Pink Paradise and les Bains-Douches.
In 2001, though, some events changed their life. David was diagnosed with a rare virus that could lead to acute cardiac failure, and that was the point they decided to stop running the clubs and started a new life. They sold all their clubs and almost all their properties, David began to produce music more seriously and together they started new parties in Ibiza called "F*** Me I'm Famous".
Later in 2002, David released his first global single that exploded across five continents : Love Don't Let Me Go, included in his first album Just A Little More Love. He instantly jumped on the top of the British DJmag list, being the only French that reached top ranks in such short time. In 2004, a second album was due, called the Guetta Blaster, with several hit singles, The World Is Mine, Money, and Stay.
And Summer 2007 was truly a peak of international successes for the Guetta family. David became the first DJ who did a set on a plane from Paris to Ibiza, and his third album Pop Life gets an instant hit, topping charts everywhere. During almost a year he toured around the world promoting Pop Life, playing the world's most famous, most luxurious venues. From this album, he has already released three singles : Love Is Gone, Baby When The Light, and Delirious.
Today, David Guetta still mixes weekly on air at the FG DJ Radio and Fun Radio. He lives in Paris with Cathy and their kids, Tim-Elvis (4) and Angie (8 months).
