In 2. Guetta was voted as the number one DJ in the DJ Mag Top 1. DJs fan poll. 5In 2. Billboard crowned When Love Takes Over as the number one dance pop collaboration of all time. Life and careereditEarly lifeeditPierre David Guetta was born in Paris, France. Guettas father was a sociologist of Moroccan Jewish descent. His mother is of Belgian descent. Early workeditGuetta began to DJ at the Broad Club in Paris. He first played popular songs, and he discovered house music when he heard a Farley Jackmaster Funk track on French radio in 1. The next year, he began hosting his own club nights. In 1. 99. 0, he released Nation Rap, a hip hop collaboration with French rapper Sidney Duteil. In the mid 1. 99. Guetta played in clubs including Le Centrale, the Rex, Le Boy, and Folies Pigalle. Released in 1. 99. Guettas second single, a collaboration with American house vocalist Robert Owens titled Up Away, was a minor club hit. In 1. 99. 4, 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. Just a Little More Love and Guetta BlastereditIn 2. Guetta along with Joachim Garraud founded Gum Productions, and in the same year Guettas first hit single, Just A Little More Love, featuring American singer Chris Willis was released. Willis was vacationing in France when he met Guetta. Guettas debut album Just A Little More Love was released in 2. Virgin Records and sold over 3. The follow up singles, Love Dont Let Me Go, People Come People Go and Give Me Something, were released in 2. Guetta released a compilation, Fck Me Im Famous, in 2. Ibiza. It included Just for One Day Heroes, a remix of David Bowies song Heroes. Later in his career, Guetta continued recording compilations under that title. Guettas second album, Guetta Blaster, was released in 2. It released four singles Money and Stay featuring Chris Willis and The World Is Mine and In Love With Myself featuring JD Davis. In 2. 00. 6 the Just a Little More Love single Love Dont 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 Dont Let Me Go Walking Away was charted higher than the original release of the song. Pop LifeeditIn 2. Guettas 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 2. The lead single Love Is Gone reached Number 1 on the American Dance Chart and charted on the Billboard Hot 1. Delirious featured the vocals of Tara Mc. Donald who also co wrote the record. The song was released as the albums fourth single on 3. January 2. 00. 8. The song charted 2. Austrian singles chart, 1. Belgian Flanders chart, 2 Belgian Wallonia singles chart. Dutch singles chart, 1. French singles chart, 1. Swiss singles chart, 3. Hungary singles chart, 2. Romanian singles chart, 5. 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 Guetta and Tara Mc. Donald, picturing an executive assistant throwing paint all over her bosss office. Mc. Donald also sang and co wrote Youre Not Alone from this album. He has played in many countries around the world to promote the album. He played in Mauritius in January 2. French rapper Joey. Starr. 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 2. The event was called UNIGHTED, he performed with Tisto, Carl Cox, Joachim Garraud and Martin Solveig in front of a crowd of 4. In 2. 00. 9, he was placed third in the Top 1. DJs poll by DJ Magazine,1. Best House DJ by DJ Awards in 2. Since April 2. 00. Guetta had his own radio show on the internet radio station Raute. Musik on Saturday evening. The show was afterwards moved into Radio 5. Friday evening after Tistos Club Life. One Love and international breakthroughedit. Guetta on the One Love Tour, March 2. Guettas fourth studio album, One Love, was released in August 2. 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, selling over 5,5 million copies 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 and Gettin Over You featuring Chris Willis, Fergie and LMFAO followed. As of May 2. 01. 1 the album had sold three million copies worldwide. Guettas fourth studio album One Love was nominated as Best ElectronicDance Album at the 5. Annual Grammy Awards. 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 2. November 2. 01. 0. The first single, titled Whos That Chick featuring Rihanna was released a few weeks prior. On 1. 6 June 2. 00. The Black Eyed Peas released the 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. United Kingdom selling more than 1 million copies. He was nominated twice for his work with The Black Eyed Peas at the 5. Grammy Awards in the category Record of the Year for I Gotta Feeling and Album of the Year for their album The E. Download Strike Force Heroes Hacked. N. D. In 2. 01. 0, Guetta co wrote and produced Kelly Rowlands Commander from her third album Here I Am. It peaked at number one on Billboards 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 Kellys next UK single from that album. Guetta also produced the singles Acapella and Scream for American singer songwriter Keliss fifth studio album, Flesh Tone, released on 1. May 2. 01. 0. Acapella was released as the lead single on 2. February 2. 01. 0 and topped the dance charts in the United Kingdom and United States. On 2. 8 June 2. 01. American rapper Flo Rida released the single Club Cant Handle Me featuring Guetta. The song is included on the soundtrack album to the American 3. D dance film Step Up 3. D and Flo Ridas third studio album, Only One Flo Part 1. Nothing but the Beat and Jack Back RecordseditGuettas fifth studio album, Nothing but the Beat was released on 2. August 2. 01. 1. 2. It was released as a double disc album one disc being vocal and the other being electronic. Guetta was inspired by rock bands such as Kings of Leon and Coldplay to add rock influences to his dance productions.