DJ Sammy

It’s always interesting to look a little more closely at one-hit wonders, and look at what led up to that fleeting success in the first place and see just how they’ve fared since; OK, so DJ Sammy, or Samuel Bouriah as he was born, isn’t quite a one-hit wonder - his biggest success on the charts, 2001’s British number one smash ‘Heaven’, was followed up a year later by further top ten tracks in the UK that included a cover of Don Henley’s ‘The Boys of Summer’, but his moment to shine was over quickly enough that I feel you can include him amongst the number of those that were here one moment and gone the next. It was a real slow burn to success for DJ Sammy, too, with his career kicking off in his native Mallorca in Spain, where he began spinning tunes in local clubs; he knows, then, how to handle relative obscurity, and whilst he remains popular on the live circuit in his home country, that’s largely what he’s been faced with since 2002. His recent live sets have mixed up Eurodance with house and techno in a way that appeals to both the mainstream and the purists, and he remains a popular fixture at clubs across Europe.