David Guetta was born in France. In 1986, Guetta played in clubs including Le Centrale, the Rex, Le Boy, and Folies.[5][6] Released in 1994[7] Guetta’s second single, a collaboration with American house vocalist Robert Owens titled “Up & Away”, was a minor club hit.[8] In 1994, David Guetta became the manager of Le Palace nightclub and he continued to organise parties there and in other clubs, such as the “Scream” parties in Les Bains Douches.[9] 2001–2006: Just a Little More Love and Guetta Blaster

In 2001, David Guetta along with Joachim Garraud founded Gum Productions, and in the same year Guetta’s first hit single, “Just A Little More Love”, featuring American singer Chris Willis was released. Willis was vacationing in France when he met Guetta.[8] Guetta’s debut album Just A Little More Love was released in 2002 on Virgin Records and sold over 300,000 copies. The follow-up singles, (“Love Don’t Let Me Go”, “People Come People Go” and “Give Me Something”), were released in 2002. Guetta released a compilation, Fuck Me I’m Famous, in 2003, named after his party in Ibiza. It included “Just for One Day (Heroes)”, a remix of David Bowie’s song “Heroes”.[8] Later in his career, Guetta continued recording compilations under that title.

Guetta’s second album, Guetta Blaster, was released in 2004. It released four singles: “Money” and “Stay” featuring Chris Willis and “The World Is Mine” and “In Love With Myself” featuring JD Davis. In 2006 the Just a Little More Love single “Love Don’t Let Me Go” was re-released as a mash-up with the Tocadisco remix of “Walking Away” by The Egg. The mash-up single entitled “Love Don’t Let Me Go (Walking Away)” was charted higher than the original release of the song.
2007–09: Pop Life

In 2007, Guetta’s third album Pop Life was released. The album was successful in the UK and Ireland as well as in mainland Europe. According to EMI in 2010, the album has sold a total of 530,000 copies worldwide. The lead single “Love Is Gone” reached Number 1 on the American Dance Chart and charted on the Billboard Hot 100.

“Delirious” featured the vocals of Tara McDonald who also co wrote the record. The song was released as the album’s fourth single on January 31, 2008. The song charted #27 Austrian singles chart, #17 Belgian (Flanders) chart, #2 Belgian (Wallonia) singles chart. #12 Dutch singles chart, #16 French singles chart, #16 Swiss singles chart, #36 Hungary singles chart, #29 Romanian singles chart, #51 Swedish singles chart. The remixes of the song, including mixes by Fred Rister, Marc Mysterio, Laidback Luke, and Arno Cost and Norman Doray were released. A video clip for the song was filmed by Denys Thibaut in Montreal, featuring David Guetta and Tara McDonald, picturing an executive assistant throwing paint all over her boss’s office. Tara McDonald was the ever vocalist that David Guetta ever featured in the video clip. Tara McDonald also sang “You’re Not Alone” from this album.

He played in many countries around the world to promote the album. He played in Mauritius in January 2008, accompanied by French rapper JoeyStarr. In the same year, he and his wife Cathy also planned a new event which took place in the Stade de France on 5 July 2008. The event was called “UNIGHTED”, he performed with Tiësto, Carl Cox, Joachim Garraud and Martin Solveig in front of a crowd of 40,000.[10]

In 2009, he was placed third in the “Top 100 DJs” poll by DJ Magazine,[11] and was elected “Best House DJ” by DJ Awards in 2008. Since April 2009, Guetta had his own radio show on the internet radio station RauteMusik on Saturday evening. The show was afterwards moved into Radio 538, being aired every Friday evening after Tiësto’s Club Life.
2009–2010: One Love and international breakthrough
Guetta on the One Love Tour, January 2010.

David Guetta’s fourth studio album, One Love, was released in August 2009. Its first single “When Love Takes Over”, which featured Kelly Rowland, peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart and topped many other countries worldwide. His second single from the album, “Sexy Bitch” featuring Akon, became his second #1 in the UK. “One Love” featuring Estelle, “Memories” featuring Kid Cudi, “Revolver” featuring Madonna and Lil Wayne, and “Gettin’ Over You” featuring Chris Willis, Fergie and LMFAO followed. As of May 2011 the album had sold three million copies worldwide.[12] Guetta’s fourth studio album One Love was nominated as “Best Electronic/Dance Album” at the 52nd Grammy Awards.[13] His song “When Love Takes Over” featuring American R&B singer Kelly Rowland received two nominations; Best Dance Recording and Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical, and won the latter. After conflicts over whether or not an album re-issue should go ahead, One More Love was released on 29 November 2010. First single, titled “Who’s That Chick?” featuring Rihanna was released a few weeks prior.[14]

On 16 June 2009, The Black Eyed Peas released the David Guetta-produced “I Gotta Feeling” as their second single from their fifth studio album, The E.N.D.. It became a worldwide hit topping the charts in seventeen countries. It became the most downloaded song of all-time in the United States with almost 7.5 million downloads and in the United Kingdom selling more than 1 million copies.[15][16] He was nominated twice for his work with The Black Eyed Peas at the 52nd Grammy Awards; in the category Record of the Year for “I Gotta Feeling” and Album of the Year for their album The E.N.D.. In 2010, David Guetta co-wrote and produced Kelly Rowland’s “Commander” from her third album Here I Am. It peaked at number one on Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Songs chart in the United States, and reached top ten positions in Belgium and the United Kingdom. Guetta has also co-produced “Forever and a Day”, which was Kelly’s next UK single from that album.[17][18] Guetta also produced the singles “Acapella” and “Scream” for American singer-songwriter Kelis’s fifth studio album, Flesh Tone, released on 14 May 2010. “Acapella” was released as the lead single on 23 February 2010 and topped the dance charts in the United Kingdom and United States. On 28 June 2010 American rapper Flo Rida released the single “Club Can’t Handle Me” featuring David Guetta. The song is included on the soundtrack album to the American 3D dance film Step Up 3D.
2011–13: Nothing but the Beat and Jack Back Records

Guetta’s fifth studio album, Nothing But The Beat was released on 30 August 2011.[19] It was released as a double-disc album; one disc being vocal and the other being electronic.[20] Guetta was inspired by rock bands such as Kings of Leon and Coldplay to add rock influences to his dance productions.[21] “Where Them Girls At” featuring Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj, the first single off the album, was released worldwide on 2 May 2011.[22][23] “Little Bad Girl”, with Taio Cruz and Ludacris, was released as the second single on 28 June 2011.[20][24] The third single, “Without You” with Usher, was released on 27 September 2011. David has also released four promotional singles for Nothing But the Beat which were “Titanium” with Sia, “Lunar” with Afrojack, “Night of Your Life” with Jennifer Hudson and The Alphabeat (song). 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 again to release “Pandemonium” on his FMIF Ibiza Mix 2011 compilation through EMI records. [25][26]

Guetta also performed alongside Nicky Romero and Nervo at London’s Alexandra Palace on 1 June 2012.[27]

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 yet 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 Swedish duo Taped Rai. In 2012, Guetta also made an album named Nothing But The Beat: Ultimate, which combined the two albums Nothing But The Beat and Nothing But The Beat 2.0 together. Summer 2012 David Guetta played in Finland in Weekend Festival and he will be festival’s headliner also for year 2013.[28] The third single from Nothing but the Beat 2.0 is “Play Hard”

Nothing But the Beat[29] is also a feature-length biographical documentary about David Guetta and his rise to fame, featuring many of his collaborators, including Kelly Rowland, will.i.am and Snoop Dogg. It was made in collaboration with the energy drink, burn, with whom Guetta became a brand ambassador from 2011. Together with burn, Guetta also provided support and mentoring for the burn-sponsored “burn studios residency” program[30] for up-and-coming DJs.

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

Guetta has created a new record label known as Jack Back Records (named after whom he has collaborated with in the song “Wild One Two”), where he intends to focus only on electronic releases.[31] The first release of this new label is his collaboration with Nicky Romero, “Metropolis”, which is also a track from Nothing but the Beat 2.0.[32] All releases can be found on Beatport.[33] Jack Back’s involvement in the label is unknown.[citation needed] Whilst on tour with Rihanna, he debuted his new track at Twickenham Stadium on 15 June 2013. David 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”, and it was released on July 8, 2013.[34] It is a collaboration between GLOWINTHEDARK and Harrison. Guetta released the artwork for his new single on his Instagram profile on 19 June 2013.
2013-present: Other projects and upcoming sixth studio album

On September 26, 2013, Guetta unveiled the music video for new track “One Voice” featuring indie singer Mikky Ekko. It will be released on November 4 as part of the UN’s humanitarian campaign called The World Needs More.[35]

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 January 20, 2014, Guetta released the new single “Shot Me Down” featuring American singer Skylar Grey, it is an adaption of the Nancy Sinatra song of the same name. The song is co-produced by Giorgio Tuinfort.

On February 25, 2014, Guetta released a remix of Avicii’s track “Addicted to You” on Beatport. On March 17, 2014, he released a track featuring a collaboration with Showtek and Vassy “BAD” on Jack Back Records.