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Daddy DJ biographyDaddy DJ is a French dance project created in 2000 by David Le Roy, Jean-Christophe Belval and Charly Merkiled. David, the vocalist, was born in New Caledonia. After 13 years of classical and jazz piano, he went wild over electronic music. He left Nouméa and came to Paris at the age of 21, after a year of work on productions and remixes of South Pacific artists, and entered the ESRA, a sound engineer school in Paris. As for Jean-Christophe, the keyboardist, he is native from Calais. He discovered electronic music and bought his first synth at the age of 15, after many years of classical piano lessons. After an experience in recording studios, he started in production and remixed (Gigi d'Agostino, Blondie, Dead or Alive, ...), and began to work as a teacher at the ESRA, where he met David. The teacher and the pupil decided to start working together : they listened to each other's productions and finally composed their first track in common in one night. Charly, the DJ and third member of the project, was born in Martinique. He started animating a radio show on his school local radio at the age of 14, that's how he had his first contact with turntables as a DJ. His first influences were soul, funk and rap. At the beginning of the 90's, the discovery of techno pushed him to released a EP (Black Power EP) under the independent label RadiKal Groov Records. Thereafter, he remixed a single from Gigi d'Agostino for France. The team has also remixed XX's Give It Up, Edsilia's The Second Floor.(under the name of J&B), Blondie, Tom Jones... Their first single Daddy DJ, released in December 2000, was a huge hit in France. It remained # 2 in the charts for 6 months. 1 million CDs were sold in France. The videoclip is a cartoon that tells the story of a little boy that would like to mix in the parties just like his daddy. On stage, David sings, Jean-Christophe plays the keyboards and Charly mixes. They gave their first show at the Zénith in Paris for the Halloween Techno Party and then took part to the Trophées de la nuit at the Lido (Paris), then they started a tour through France from disco to disco. The next single to be released was entitled The Girl In Red, with 9 different mixes. They came their first album Let Your Body Talk. 2002 : After two years of intensive touring, the band decided to take a break, and each member went on his own projects. 2003 : the album was released in the US 2007 : the melody of Daddy DJ was covered by Basshunter in his latest single Sitter I Ventrilo Och Spelar Dota (later translated in english under the title All I Ever Wanted) 2008 : Daddy DJ are back ! But Charly Merkiled left the project. They are working on tracks for their future album Rock Machine. 2009 : their hit Daddy DJ was covered by Crazy Frog. In May, Daddy DJ released the track Everyday as radio promo. Daddy DJ unofficial website The biography was last updated Sat, October 31st 2009 Did you like this article ? Tell your friends
Latest Daddy DJ news13/12/2012 : Daddy DJ's first single from their new album /Folder will be entitled Crying. They organize a remix contest for this track. More infos on their Facebook page. 12/11/2012 : Daddy DJ's long-awaited second album Folder will be out on December 10th 31/03/2010 : Daddy DJ's new single Perfect day is out now radio and club promotion and will be soon available on iTunes. 03/11/2009 : Daddy DJ are back ! Their new single Everyday was released as promo. You can discover it on their Myspace. 03/05/2007 : Basshunter is his latest single Sitter I Ventrilo Och Spelar Dota covered the melody of Daddy DJ's hit Daddy DJ. Charts (singles)
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DISCLAIMER : unless you see the artist's name among the credits of this biography, it was only created by gathering infos from the web and from fan sources. Sorry if, even if I did all verifications I could, some parts of the biography are false or lack accuracy. If you are the artist himself or contributed to the project, please wait till I come back from holidays.
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