David Morales Born: August 21, 1962 (age 57 years), Brooklyn, New York, United States
David Morales is a globally revered American DJ, a Grammy award-winning record producer, a songwriter, and a businessman. He has produced and remixed over 500 records for an all-star roster of multi-platinum artists, including Mariah Carey, U2, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Madonna, and Whitney Houston. The global phenomenon and penetration of dance music into Top 40 radio would not have been possible without him.
Fatboy Slim (real name Norman Cook, born 1963), British DJ
31 July 1963, Bromley, Kent, England. This musical chameleon grew up in Surrey and began to DJ when he moved to Brighton to study for a degree. After playing bass guitar with the Housemartins, he had his first success as a solo artist with a remix of Erik B And Rakim’s “I Know You Got Soul” which reached number 13 in the charts in the late 80s. In the 90s, he formed Beats International, who achieved a UK number 1 in February 1990 with “Dub Be Good To Me”, and later Freak Power (with Ashley Slater), who reached number 2 in the UK charts in March 1995 after their “Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out” single was featured in a Levis jeans commercial. Cook has achieved most success producing dance music under a number of different names, and in his roles as a club DJ and in-demand remixer. In 1994, he turned to house music as Pizzaman and had a number of Top 20 hits including “Tripping On Sunshine’ (Loaded Records). At the same time he began to write in a style that later became known as big beat, and to purvey this sound at the Big Beat Boutique (from which the movement took its name). Following the success of the club, he signed to Damian Harris” newly formed Skint Records as Fatboy Slim and released “Santa Cruz” as his first single.
