Today Guetta, 49, is wearing Ray-Ban sunglasses and a white T-shirt. Last year Forbes estimated his annual earnings at $28m. A chartered jet awaits him at the airport, ready to take him to club nights and summer festivals around Europe. He has his own record label, Jack Back Records, and divides his time between Los Angeles, Miami and London as well as an Ibiza mansion. He has conquered the charts with dance-pop hits featuring some of pop’s biggest names, including Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Usher and Sia. Like a fallen Pilgrim Father, he helped trigger the US’s conversion to the promised land of dance music in the 2000s. His brash anthems, a kind of hyper-disco, reverberate around the world’s pleasure zones, from Las Vegas to Phuket. Over the past decade Guetta’s fame has gone global. Guetta and his fellow dance-music titans - they are almost all men - are like rock stars used to be in the 1970s, leading a lifestyle of private jets, adoration, egotism and vast wealth.ĭavid Guetta and Nicki Minaj: He has conquered the charts with dance-pop hits featuring some of pop’s biggest names His residency is called, with characteristic delicacy, “F*** Me I’m Famous”, a perfect inscription for the age of the superstar DJ. Guetta first appeared at the club in 1996 (“It is like family”). Our lunch is at Destino, a chic resort owned by Pacha. “Because it is a big place and the island was not supposed to be full yet.

“I was a little bit scared, you know,” he says. With tourism to the island booming - 2016 saw a record-breaking 7.1m visitors - he began this year’s DJ-ing duties in June, a month before the season usually gets under way. Each week he plays a pair of club nights, or “parties”, as he calls them, at two prominent Ibizan clubs, Pacha and Ushuaïa. As one of the world’s most successful DJs, Guetta spends his summers on the Spanish Balearic island renowned for its unbridled nightlife. “I love being here,” says a smiling David Guetta. Behind him, on the opposite side of the bay, is Ibiza Town, shimmering in the cloudless heat. Blue sea and yachts are to his right, to his left is an equally blue swimming pool ringed by buff young people in afternoon repose. The rogue scion of a leftwing intellectual Parisian family sits opposite me at a wooden table under a canopy on a whitewashed terrace.

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