Interview with French superstar David Vendetta

Interview with French superstar David Vendetta

19 December, 2007 | 8.36AM

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After a fantastic start to 2007, most notably with his debut album ‘Rendezvous’ enjoying heavy airplay and subsequent chart success all over Europe, David Vendetta returns with a track featured heavily on the planet’s dancefloors this winter with ‘Bleeding heart’.

Named as one of the hottest house tracks to hit promo this winter, David’s track ‘Bleeding Heart’ with the sassy vocals of Rachel Starr, is exploding on the dancefloors of the world’s DJ elite.

With major support from Roger Sanchez, to the big guns of Pete Tong, Eric Morillo, Deep Dish, Tom Novy to Martijn Ten Velden and Bush II Bush and more ’Bleeding Heart’ now enjoys a full release.

We caught up with him to see what was going on in his world.

Please introduce yourself.

I have been a professional DJ for 10 years now and producer for 5 years.

I’ve always loved the avant-garde music, since my childhood.

But first I had a classic education, and I became a pharmaceutical representative.

But the passion has overcome me and I stopped everything to try my chance in DJing.

How would you describe your sets?

It’s often difficult to make me leave the DJ booth.

I don’t prepare my sets, I’m playing gradually in sharing feelings with clubbers.

How do you feel that you fit into the musical mix in France with people like Bob Sinclar, David Guetta, Martin Solveig and Justice? Do you feel that your style is representative of the sound of France?

I respect them but I don’t consider that they are my rivals because we all have a different style that people like and this makes the real strength of the French touch.

Most decent DJs have moved into production from the DJ booth. Was it a smooth progression for you?

I’ve felt the need to produce after a few years of experience as a resident in Parisian’s clubs like Les Bains, Follies Pigalle and L’Amnesia.

It’s important to build a career, but for my part, both aspects are interesting for me; I couldn’t go on without one of them.

How would you best describe your production sound?

My sound is a sensual, tuneful house and electro.

Roger Sanchez is a big fan of yours, which has lead to lots of remixes on his label Stealth. Tell us a bit about that.

I’ve liked Roger Sanchez even before I started to work with him.

I respect him for his mix technology and his human qualities.

When I started to collaborate with him in 2004, I was honoured to be only French DJ who worked for his label Stealth.

He put me up to the international dimension.

This year you released your first artist album ‘Rendezvous’. What did you want to achieve with this cd?

After the success of ‘Love to Love you baby’ and ‘Unidos Para la Musica’ in France and around the world, I felt it was the right moment to make an album so that everybody could go through my musical universe, which is bigger than they knew about me so far.

The opening tracks on your album are quite special. What was so special about those tracks that you chose them for the openers?

These are the tracks already released as singles with video clips and so well known by the audience.

They are like the beginning of the trip, which ends with with the last track: the flamenco version of ‘Unidos Para la musica’.

Did you manage to get all the tracks that you wanted on the CD?

Yes, I wanted to include only the tracks with which I was fully satisfied, which is why I didn’t hesitate to put of a couple of them before having the final tracklist.

I really did what I wanted to do, and I‘ve been lucky to work with renowned singers that trusted me like Barbara Tucker (the diva of house music), Keith Thompson, David Goncalves (Chocolate Puma’s vocalist) and Rachael Starr.

You’re just about to release your new single ‘Bleeding Heart’ with the amazing vocals of Rachel Starr. Are you expecting it to be a dancefloor destroyer?

I had just finished the instrumental version of ‘Bleeding Heart’ for the Miami Winter Music Conference last march.

For this occasion, with my violinist Micah, we made an improvised set and someone put the a video online on youtube.

Today, it’s the most visited video of the WMC.

‘Bleeding Heart’ is my favourite track of the whole album.

What artists do you admire?

Roger Sanchez, Queen, Mike Oldfield, Kate Bush, Pete Tong, Kraftwerk, Serge Gainsbourg.

You’ve got a really successful radio show. Tell us a bit about that.

My radio show is called Cosa Nostra, and it’s also the name of my residency in Paris at Mix Club.

Through my radio show, I want to make discover different house sounds, not only do my own promotion.

Every week, I include brand new tracks for my audience.

You can find my show through the podcast on my website www.davidvendetta.com.

My Cosa Nostra radioshow is broadcast in different countries all around the world.

You’ve been in the business a few years now. Do you still get nervous before you DJ?

I still have some apprehension before mixing, because I meet a new audience and my purpose is to enter in symbiosis with them and to make them feeling my passion.

Do you have any advice for budding David Vendettas out there?

They often ask me about the keys of success.

I would say that this is the mixture of maturity, perseverance, talent, boldness, and also chance.

What are you up to the next couple of months?

The single and the video clip ‘Bleeding Heart’ is out now.

I also have a lot of remixes to do, a lot of gigs (a Turkish tour and another tour in the Eastern Europe).

I’m launching my own brand of tee-shirts which will be available on my website before the end of the year.

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