David Guetta, re-elected best DJ in the world: "I love the trip of my life"

David Guetta (Paris, 1967) is confined to the island of Ibiza for his birthday.

Fate has wanted

, the

of DJs, who chooses the number one in electronic music, to have crowned him at 53 years old as

, curiously, only for the second time in his life.

At this point I do not know if these things already do not matter to him.

No, no, I'm very excited.

First because it is announced on my birthday.

It is the best gift I could have.

And also because nine years have passed since I was first number one.

It makes me very happy because they both happened when I was having a very large cultural impact on our community.

The first time I made more

music

I was starting to do things with American pop singers, and at that time it was something very new.

They actually criticized me a lot for doing that, but I was number one.

And after doing it, it became a normal thing for DJs, and I think it's very good that everyone has done it.

And this time because I've spent two years putting all my strength into doing great things that aren't pop.

I've done a project called Jack Back, which is just house, and one called Future Rave, which is a new sound, and of course it makes me happy, it teaches me that when I make an effort to do something different, the community appreciates it. .

Guetta, the son of a French sociologist, a bit Franco-Italian, a bit Moroccan, a bit Sephardic Jew and a bit Belgian, started DJing while studying law at the University of Nanterre.

He went into the night as a theater manager until he got tired of traffic jams in the bathrooms, and of declaring at the police station for fights, and decided to become a producer of his own recording career, first on the Parisian nights of Bataclan, and then on the planetary ones. .

With

he became the face of L'Oréal's hair gel, and began collecting numbers one with The Black Eyed Peas or Rhianna until he became the best DJ in the world.

And now for the second time in the middle of a pandemic, how is it possible?

The first thing I did is see how I could help.

I did two

to raise money, in Miami in April, and in New York in May [which raised $ 1.5 million and became the most followed performance in history on Facebook [].

It seemed to me that it was a very, very important moment because people are very aggressive, society, countries.

Social differences are growing, the poor are poorer, the rich are richer.

And all that seems very dangerous to me.

Many DJs stopped making music because they thought, why, if there are no shows.

However, I wanted to release a CD,

, and I also did this pop song with Sia, which is called

, whose theme is that we are one, and that these difficult moments must be overcome together and not against each other.

It seems to me that this kind of message at the moment is very, very important because the impact of the songs is so great.

also confined?

Yes, yes, I was in Miami for two months.

And as soon as I was able to move I went to London with my family, what is your new normal like?

It has changed my whole life.

I was taking a plane almost every day.

The truth is that I liked being able to wake up in the same bed every day.

Spend more time with my family, have more time to make music.

But what I need is the stage.

That is my life.

But it is what it is, and I'm taking it in the most positive way I can. It's not that I'm starving either.

That is an important issue, because everyone in Europe has had some kind of help to maintain the economy, and the same in America, but for our industry there has been no help.

And I am one of the lucky ones because I have money, I do not depend on a salary.

But in our industry, and that includes security, managers, contractors, they're all freelancers, and we get a total of zero in aid.

Of course I don't need the help, but our industry needs it.

And it is not possible to continue ignoring something like that.

Keep ignoring all the nightlife, the clubs, the bars, the festivals, it's a big industry, in China it seems that they are already better.

It's funny what he tells me because a lot of people are telling me why don't I go to China now, and why are they already well and we are still bad?

It is very difficult to know what is happening.

The way I see it, it all depends on being able to serve the people who go to hospitals.

I don't think it's a question so much of finding a cure but of making sure that hospitals can treat the people who come to them.

When hospitals are full they confine us.

If everyone can be cared for, and hospitals are emptied, then they open us up and people can keep working and the economy can survive.

But we cannot be opening up and confining ourselves all the time.

For example, this summer, why are we opening?

There was no reason to open.

There was no reason to believe that everything was fine to open.

Now we are again we are closing down because many people are getting sick.

I think it's common sense, to be honest.

But I guess, and hopefully, we find the vaccine and things will be fine again. Do you see yourself DJing at 70 or 80?

Yes, if that makes me happy why am I going to quit.

Until people love me I'm going to be here to party with them. What advice would you give yourself when you started out?

As a child the advice would be to work more on music theory, because I didn't like the piano and now I need it.

But if I didn't have that opportunity, nothing happens, because I like everything I've done, the good and the bad.

Things are always learned from one and the other.

It is not the destination that matters, it is the journey.

And I love the trip of a lifetime.

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