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Guru Josh is Paul Walden; a pioneering and iconic figure in the Dance Music industry. Primarily as a musician but also as a promoter, artist, designer and entrepreneur, Paul Walden has been involved in the music business since the early 1980s.

Starting out as a promoter on his home island of Jersey, Paul subsequently spent time in the U.S. running a string of successful businesses before returning to London to concentrate on his music career. After setting up ‘Joshua Cries Wolf‘ — a rock band which won the ‘Nescafe British Band Contest‘ — Paul discovered the rave scene. He soon fully integrated himself in the scene and, after performing with the likes of Adamski and Seal, was soon touring as Guru Josh.

After performing at like-minded parties including Sunrise, World Party and Biology, the promoter of a rave called ‘Infinity‘ financed the cutting of a promotional white label. A slow burner on its first pressing, ‘Infinity‘ was initially supported by Mike Pickering; it became a Hacienda anthem before being signed to Deconstruction, selling 3,000,000 copies on its totemic rise to being one of the most recognised dance anthems of all time. For the next 3 years Guru Josh toured as the biggest dance star on the planet. His records charted all over world. His follow up singles included ‘Freaky Dreamer‘, ‘Holographic Dreams‘ and ‘Whose Law (Is It Anyway?)‘ and his debut album (‘Infinity‘) sold in excess of 900,000 copies.

In between touring Europe in a camouflage campervan, promoting events in Portugal and launching a number of diverse, alternative and ultimately very successful business ventures, Guru Josh has been performing regularly at events such as Manumission and clubs like El Divino and Es Paradis (Ibiza) to his devoted fan base. However, it is work with The Guru Josh Project that raised his current profile to new levels. Signed to Big City Beats in 2007 and consisting of Guru Josh, Snakebyte and Darren Bailie, The Guru Josh Project is currently riding a wave of success with the re-released ‘Infinity 2008‘. Experiencing widespread success and topping the sales charts throughout Belgium, France, Holland and Denmark, ‘Infinity 2008‘ was the major crossover dance hit of 2008 which has surpassed many of the achievements set by the original release in 1989. It is one of the most viewed You Tube videos (52,000,000 views) and in terms of both sales and radio airplay was amongst the biggest records across the world in 2008.

Now a brand new single from Guru Josh featuring vocalist Lauren Rose is poised to be unleashed to the unsuspecting dance floor nations this summer — “Frozen Teardrops”. With The Guru still holding the top spot for one of the biggest dance record this century thanks to ‘Infinity‘; this new dance floor monster is Guru‘s next project for World domination and holds every promise for a sure-fired Global anthem.

As a live show Guru Josh is booked solid throughout the year performing to huge audiences across all continents. After performing to 600,000 as part of NYE celebrations at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Guru Josh‘s 2010 Ibiza residency is now in full swing — wowing thousands of clubbers each week at Es Paradis. A man of huge vision and talent; Guru Josh is once more on top of the world!!