At age 17, Guetta began DJing at the Broad Club in Paris.[4] He first played popular songs, and he discovered house music when he heard a Farley Jackmaster Funk track on French radio in 1987. The next year, he began hosting his own club nights.[1] In 1990, he released "Nation Rap", a hip-hop collaboration with French rapper Sidney Duteil.[5]
In the early 1990s, Guetta played in clubs including Le Centrale, the Rex, Le Boy, and Folies Pigalle.[4][6] Released in 1994,[5] Guetta's first single, a collaboration with American house vocalist Robert Owens titled "Up & Away", was a minor club hit.[1] In 1995, David Guetta became the manager of Le Palace nightclub and he continued to organise parties there and in other clubs, such as the "Scream" parties in Les Bains Douches.[7]