DJ Casper

DJ Casper ( born June 23, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York, real name William Perry ), also Mr. C The Slide Man, is an American DJ from Chicago. He is best known for his number -one hit Cha Cha Slide from the year 2004.

Career

DJ Casper Cha Cha Slide wrote in 1996 for Balley Total Fitness, an American fitness club. The Cha Cha Slide is a line dance with a defined sequence of steps. DJ Casper wrote the song and the dance developed it. Most of this dance is danced at parties, bar mitzvahs and weddings in Canada, the United States, Australia and Great Britain in dance clubs. Cha Cha Slide is an updated version of Electric Slides.

The song became a hit in the club, what Casper prompting him on his CD Cha -Cha Slide: The Original Slide Album to release on 19 September 1996. Later he wrote a second version under the name Cha Cha Slide ( Part 2) was known.

In 2001, he released the single in the U.S. under the name of Mr. C The Slide Man and was able to land a chart hit. Even more successful was the accompanying eponymous album, which consisted of only seven titles, including four slide- versions. It stayed 19 weeks in the charts and was certified gold.

2003 McDonald's used the song for a TV advertisement, after which Perry reached # 1 on the UK singles charts under the name DJ Casper in the spring of 2004 with the Cha Cha Slide. Then he made a remix of the hit Oops Upside Your Head Gap Band the, which also still came in the British charts.

Discography

Album

• Cha -Cha Slide (as Mr. C The Slide Man; 2001, USA )

Singles

• Cha -Cha Slide (as Mr. C The Slide Man; 2001, USA )
• Cha Cha Slide ( DJ Casper as; 2004, UK)
• Oops Upside Your Head (DJ Casper feat The Gap Band, . 2004)