IF chart positions are anything, then musically this summer belongs to one man and his name is David Guetta.
The flamboyant French producer ushered in the sunshine months scoring a number One with Kelly Rowland, before hitting the top spot again with I Gotta Feeling, co-written with American hip hop giants Black Eyed Peas.
That catchy ditty has been at the top of the US charts for months and was only this week dislodged as the UK number one. Although it is unlikely the 41-year-old is too upset about that. It was his own track Sexy Chick with American rapper Akon which knocked it off.
No wonder the 41-year-old sounds upbeat.
“This is the best year of my life,” he laughs. “I am very lucky and very blessed. I have always said that I was very lucky that I could live off my music but now it is even more crazy than ever.”
The craziness started over six months ago when Guetta met former Destiny’s Child chanteuse Kelly Rowland and hasn’t stopped since.
Guetta explains: “She fell in love with the When Love Takes Over instrumental and she came up with a beautiful song, and in the same week Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas called and asked me to produce some of the tracks on the Black Eyed Peas album and we had so much fun in the studio it was unbelievable.
“They then spread the word to all of their friends and the next second all these artists were calling me asking me to produce songs for them,” continues Guetta. “Every time, I said: ‘Ok I’ll do it but you have to be on my album’, that is why the album is so incredible.”
The featured artists certainly are. As well as Will.i.am, Rowland and Akon, One Love, released last Monday also features Ne-Yo and Estelle.
That’s not to say Guetta’s place on the speed dial of America’s hip hop and r’n’b elite, has come easy. The restaurateur’s son has been DJing since his teens
By the 90s he was a firm fixture on the decks at Paris’ most exclusive hangouts and throwing his own parties. Then at the end of the decade he and his wife Cathy, a famed Paris fashion PR created the brand that would launch a thousand t-shirts: F--- Me I’m Famous.
