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Background information | |
Birth name | David Henrard |
Born | Spa, Belgium | 13 April 1973
Genres | House, EDM, Hard trance [1] |
Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, record producer, vocal producer, disc jockey |
Instrument | Vocals |
Years active | 1995–present |
David Henrard (born 13 April 1973), also known by his stage name JD Davis and Dave Davis, is a Belgian musician. He started his career in music at the age of 17 when he moved to Antwerp to work at Bonzai Records. [2] His early releases, starting with "Transfiguration" around 1995 were under the name Dave Davis while signed to Bonzai Records. Other early aliases include Les Sabotages, Phrenetic System and Davis & Santini. He has since performed at clubs and festivals worldwide such as Mayday, Love Parade, Street Parade & Energy (Zurich), Gay Pride (Paris), Francofolies De Spa (Belgium) including a residency at Cherry Moon (Belgium). [3]
Around 2004 saw the release of David Guetta's album titled Guetta Blaster in which JD Davis co-wrote, co-composed and sang on the singles "The World Is Mine" and "In Love with Myself". In 2004, his collaboration with Chab titled "Closer to Me" was released. In 2006, his second album collaboration with Guetta, titled Pop Life was released in which he co-wrote and sang on 3 tracks – "Winner of the Game", "Always" and "This Is Not a Love Song". The same year, Davis received the International Artist of the Year award at the Dance Music Awards in Kyiv (Ukraine) for his collaboration with Guetta, "The World is Mine" which featured his vocals. Other collaborating artists have included Antoine Clamaran, Joachim Garraud, Kiko, Sinema, Playgroup (Trevor Jackson) Tocadisco and Junior Jack. [4]
From 2011, Davis had been working in the studio with Joachim Garraud.
In 2013, Davis released singles on UK label Skint Records as a DJ/producer with the tracks "New Skin" and "Changed" featuring Skye of Morcheeba on vocals, while contributing a remix of Skye's own single "Nowhere" for PIAS Records UK.
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Pop Life is the third studio album released by French DJ David Guetta. It was released in 2007 and produced with Joachim Garraud. Longtime collaborator Chris Willis is the main vocalist; guest vocals are provided by JD Davis, Tara McDonald, Cozi Costi, Juliet Richardson and Thailand. The album has sold 530,000 copies worldwide and 18,000 copies in the United States.
"The World Is Mine" is a song by French DJ David Guetta, featuring vocals from singer JD Davis. The track was released as the third single from Guetta's second studio album, Guetta Blaster on 22 November 2004. Three years later, in 2007, the track was released as a single in the United States as the follow-up to "Love Don't Let Me Go ", along with the Guetta Blaster album. The background samples "Someone Somewhere in Summertime" by Simple Minds in 1982. Thanks in part to support from Dance radio outlets like BPM, "The World is Mine" would end up giving Guetta his first number-one single on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart in June 2007. The track was also the first single and only single from Guetta Blaster to be released in the United Kingdom.
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