DJ Sammy is undoubtedly the best-known DJ and producer from Spain. Born on Mallorca in 1969, this party king began his DJ career in 1984 in various clubs such as Alexandra's, Bananas & Zorba's. At about the same time he completed training as a sound technician at the music college in Palma. As a radio DJ with CADENA TOP, the official techno/house channel on Mallorca, he spread the up-to-the-minute club sound outside the clubs. In 1991 he got to know the Dutch singer and dancer Marie José van der Kolk and appeared for the first time with her under the name DJ Sammy feat. Carisma at Zorba's Club in Playa de Palma. A year later Sammy became resident DJ at the legendary Joy Palace Club in Arenal and together with Carisma provided the hottest party nights on the island.
Now he can look back on a career spanning more than 15 years as a DJ in the most acclaimed clubs around Europe, having celebrated success as a producer in the fields of pop and dance and founded the Gamba Music company and his own dance label, Super M..... Records.
In November 1995 the first single under the project name DJ Sammy feat. Carisma was released, entitled "Life Is Just A Game", and it reached pole position in the Spanish radio charts. By the time the second single "You're My Angel" was released, people in Germany were becoming aware of the duo from Mallorca, to the extent that DJ Sammy und Carisma were bombarded with requests to perform. Their fans, now a Europe-wide community, made sure that the third single "Prince of Love" climbed to No. 24 in the German sales charts, marking the beginning of a varied success story. Their debut album "Life Is Just A Game" released in June 1998, which like the singles previously released was produced by Sammy together with the team from BASS BUMPERS Music (Henning Reith, C.J. Stone, Akira Yamamoto & Caba Kroll), also made it into the sales charts and that summer was the highest-placed dance album in the German charts. The follow-up singles "Golden Child" (HP #43), "Magic Moment" (HP #67) and "In2Eternity" (HP #31) were all proof that DJ Sammy feat. Carisma knew just how to turn club music into commercial success.
DJ Sammy is well known as a talented, committed, music-loving DJ and producer, and it is no wonder that simultaneously with his own recordings he worked on and released the live DJ set he had always dreamed of, under the name "DJ Sammy At Work": this was a mix CD which immediately entered the Top Ten of the German compilation charts.
It was at this point that the big breakthrough in all of Europe came; by putting together the pop project LOONA with his singer and partner of many years, Marie José, Sammy was adding the cherry to the icing of his cake of success. The first LOONA single "Bailando", which Sammy recorded with producer Henning Reith, shot straight to No. 1 in the German, Austrian and Swiss charts. Further hits, like "Hijo de la luna" and "Mamboleo" , to mention but two, sold more than five million copies in Europe within weeks of release and earned multiple gold and platinum status. By now, two LOONA albums and various other singles have been released and enjoyed equal success, making DJ Sammy one of the most successful producers of the past three years. Furthermore, LOONA and DJ Sammy have had awards heaped upon them, such as ECHO and R.SH Gold.
In addition to his dance and pop recordings, DJ Sammy returns again and again to his roots in the progressive house and techno fields through other projects. Under the pseudonym Porno DJ he released "The Judgment" in July 1999, and in the same month, he delivered his unofficial anthem for the Love Parade entitled "Lovestern Galaktika meets Le Petit Sam", which also placed successfully in the German Media Control Charts (highest position #32).
Despite all his many producer activities, DJ Sammy constantly returns to where it all began, namely in the clubs. The list of his guest appearances reads like a Top Ten of the most popular European dance temples, with more than 200 DJ gigs a year.
