DJ Casper

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Cha-cha slide
  US 64 13/01/2001 (19 weeks)
Singles
Cha-cha slide
  DE 83 07/05/2004 (2 weeks)
  CH 86 06/13/2004 (8 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
03/13/2004 (18 weeks)
  US 83 01/06/2001 (10 weeks)
Oops Upside Your Head (feat. The GAP Band )
  UK 16 10/16/2004 (7 weeks)

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 2004 number one hit Cha Cha Slide .

Career

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

The song became a hit with the club, prompting Casper to release it on his CD Cha-Cha Slide: The Original Slide Album on September 19, 1996. Later he wrote a second version which became known as Cha Cha Slide (Part 2) .

In 2001 he released the single in the US under the name Mr. C The Slide Man and was able to land a chart hit. The album of the same name was even more successful and consisted of just seven tracks, four of which were slide versions. It stayed on the charts for 19 weeks.

In 2003, McDonald’s used the song for a TV commercial, whereupon Perry, under the name of DJ Casper, reached number 1 in the UK singles chart with the Cha Cha Slide in spring 2004 . He then made a remix of the Gap Band's hit Oops Upside Your Head , which also hit the UK 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 (as DJ Casper; 2004, UK)
  • Oops Upside Your Head (DJ Casper feat. The Gap Band ; 2004)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts UK Charts US Charts CH
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. ↑ McDonald's Happy Meal Ad Cha Cha Slide (long version) on YouTube
  4. ↑ DJ Casper tops UK singles chart. In: BBC News. March 14, 2004, accessed October 18, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME DJ Casper
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perry, William (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American DJ
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York , USA