Daniel "Danny" Tenaglia (born March 7, 1961) is an Italian American DJ and

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Biography

Early life

Tenaglia left New York in 1985 and started DJing in

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as a resident at Cheers nightclub, playing classic New York and Chicago house. He returned to New York five years later. At this time, he started to create some remixes, including Right Said Fred's " I'm Too Sexy" (1991),

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's " Emergency on Planet Earth" (1993), and

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's "

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" (1994).

DJ career

Tenaglia's first mainstream success was with a remix of

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's "Surrender Yourself" (1993). Subsequent to this Tenaglia released three label compilations - ''Mix This Pussy'' (1994) and ''Can Your Pussy Do the Dog?'' (1995) for TRIBAL, and ''Gag Me with a Tune'' (1996) for Maxi.

As a producer

In 1996, after working for a short time at the New York nightclub Roxy, Tenaglia started a Saturday night residency at Twilo. In 1998, he moved his residency over to NY club Tunnel. In 1998, Tenaglia released another album titled ''Tourism''. The album featured the track "Elements", which was #1 on the Billboard Dance Chart for two weeks in 1998. "Music Is The Answer" featuring Celeda (also on the LP Tourism) was on the top 40 charts in the UK. In 1999, Tenaglia released his first installment in the UK-based Global Underground series of DJ mixes titled ''

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''. In the two years that followed, Tenaglia released another Global Underground installment titled ''London'', remixed Billy Nichols' "Give Your Body Up To The Music", was nominated for a Grammy (for his remix of Depeche Mode's "I Feel Loved," also nominated for Best Dance Song), and won a Dancestar Lifetime Achievement award. In 2003, Tenaglia released ''Choice: A Collection Of Classics'', a two-CD mixed compilation. It featured artists such as Blaze, Adeva and Imagination, along with his own liner notes explaining the significance of each track. He also won another Dancestar award, this time 'Best Party' for "Be Yourself."

Later years

Tenaglia continues to play clubs and has played in NYC locations including Avalon, Crobar, Pacha NYC, Roxy and Webster Hall. In 2007, Tenaglia participated in the Dance parade. In 2008 he released a single on Tommy Boy Records, "The Space Dance". The track reached number 1 on the Billboard Club Charts during November 2008. Immediately following, Tenaglia released his first compilation album in five years, entitled ''Futurism'', also on Tommy Boy Records. The compilation featured tracks from artists including Davide Squillace, The Wighnomy Brothers and Afefe Iku. Tenaglia still continues to tour across the world.

Awards and nominations

Tenaglia was nominated for Best Remixed Recording at the 44th Grammy Awards. He is also a three time International Dance Music Award winner, 3 time

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winner and 2 time Muzik Awards recipient.

Grammy Awards

DJ Awards

International Dance Music Awards

Muzik Awards

References

External links

dannytenaglia.com Danny Tenaglia official website
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