DJ Sammy
Samuel Bouriah (born 19 October 1969), better known by his stage name DJ Sammy, is a Spanish DJ and record producer. He has released five albums and has had five top-10 hits, including a cover of Bryan Adams' "Heaven", which reached number one in the UK in 2002. His career started with ex-wife Marie-José van der Kolk in the making of her first singles, under the stage name of DJ Sammy featuring Carisma.
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DJ Sammy
- Born
- 1969. · Palma.
- Nationality
- Spain.
- Occupation
- club dj, disc jockey, musician and composer.
- Fields
- Eurodance.
- Languages
- Spanish.
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Samuel Bouriah (born 19 October 1969), better known by his stage name DJ Sammy, is a Spanish DJ and record producer. He has released five albums and has had five top-10 hits, including a cover of Bryan Adams' "Heaven", which reached number one in the UK in 2002. His career started with ex-wife Marie-José van der Kolk in the making of her first singles, under the stage name of DJ Sammy featuring Carisma.
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Career
DJ Sammy started his music career in 1984 in pubs and dance clubs of Mallorca. During this time he completed training as a sound technician at the Mallorca Music College. In 1991, he met dancer Marie-José van der Kolk and they performed at Zorba's Club in Palma. In 1992, DJ Sammy became resident DJ at the Joy Palace Club in Arenal and Marie Jose was a resident dancer there. In November 1995, DJ Sammy released his first single "Life Is Just a Game" with Marie-José who started singing. The track became a Top 10 hit in the Spanish record chart. Other singles, such as "You're My Angel" and "Prince of Love", have been popular in the German record chart. In June 1998, DJ Sammy released his debut album, Life Is Just a Game. DJ Sammy founded his own music label, Super M Records, as well as the Gamba Music Company. In 2002, Sammy released the album, Heaven with charting singles released such as "Sunlight" and cover versions of Bryan Adams, "Heaven" with Dutch vocalist Do and Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer". In 2005, his next album was The Rise, with charting singles such as "Rise Again" which was featured on the 2004 movie soundtrack, It's All Gone Pete Tong, and a cover of Annie Lennox's "Why". In 2007, Sammy collaborated with Enrique Iglesias, remixing his song "Tired of Being Sorry", the second track from his hit album, Insomniac. Following this success, in April 2007, Marta Sánchez released the song "Superstar", produced and co-written by Sammy. The song was her biggest hit since "Soy Yo". On David Bisbal's album Premonición, Sammy wrote and produced the track "Aquí Ahora". He also worked on Soraya Arnelas' album, Sin Miedo. He toured the world with the Balearic Masters tour, which commenced at the end of 2007. He took his protégé, writer and singer, Nyah, who featured on the tracks "Everybody Hurts", "Feel the Love", "Animal", and "Look for Love" co-produced by Nick Marsh. In June 2013, Sammy released the single such as "Shut Up and Kiss Me" with a vocalist The Jackie Boyz, the music video is directed by Mark Feuerstake. In July 2020, Sammy released the single "This Is Who We Are" with Australian vocalist Chloe Martin.
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Personal life
Bouriah has a daughter, Saphira María (born 10 February 2005), from his previous marriage with van der Kolk who is also a singer and performs as Firefox alongside her mother.
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- 1.IMO Records "DJ Sammy Biography" , IMO Records, retrieved on 11 February 2012.
- 2.Sing 365. DJ Sammy Biography.
- 3.SORAYA VISITARA LA ACADEMIA EL 14 DE JULIO |
- 4.Jango. DJ Sammy Biography.
- 5.Puredjs. DJ Sammy Biography.
- 6.https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20030106130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20030107-0000/Issue666.pdf ARIA Report 666. Retrieved 2012-04-05
- 7.International album peaks
- 8.Discographie DJ Sammy. offiziellecharts.de.
- 9.AllMusic peak
- 10.cite certification United Kingdom access-date=3 December 2022 DJ Sammy
- 11.Discography DJ Sammy. australian-charts.com.
- 12.Discographie DJ Sammy. austriancharts.at.
- 13.Ultratop. Discografie DJ Sammy.
- 14.Discography DJ Sammy. irish-charts.com.
- 15.Dutch Charts. Discografie DJ Sammy.
- 16.Discography DJ Sammy. norwegiancharts.com.
- 17.Discography DJ Sammy. charts.nz.
- 18.Discography DJ Sammy. swedishcharts.com.
- 19.Discographie DJ Sammy. hitparade.ch.
- 20.Roberts, David. British Hit Singles & Albums. Guinness World Records Limited. 2006. 1-904994-10-5.
- 21.Australian Recording Industry Association. Australian Certification.
- 22.IFPI Norway. SØK I TROFÉER.
- 23.Recording Industry Association of America. Gold & Platinum search results: DJ Sammy.
- 24.cite certification France DJ Sammy
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