Bob Sinclar (born in 1969 under the name Christophe Le Friant) is a french DJ and music producer that, beyond the hits he has produced, has influenced and developed the typical French house music enriching it with motives and rhythms that previously were untypical for the house industry as a whole. His valuable contributions and amazing house compilations make him one of the top DJs in the world with millions of album copies sold and thousands of online admirers.

The French house is a distinctive branch in the house music since it incorporates light sounds and lacks the stainless steel bolts-like hardness of the other branches in the house family like the progressive music. Hardly are there any singers performing in the tracks and the main idea is to create a sound sequence that relaxes the person, a chill out direction of the house music.

Bob Sinclar on the other hand adopted an innovative approach and mixed the typical French house with disco and dance trends. The effect was quite successful and many of the fans were particularly impressed by the voices that dominated throughout the whole performance. This distinctive change in the music brought the attention of the house music lovers, and Sinclar’s tracks became leaders in the European music charts.

He also contributed to the establishment of the new house direction called Africanism. It is an interesting combination of typical house music and traditional sounds from the Latin and African world. It has become a major movement in the club music nowadays since it is an interesting and quite remarkable mixture of tribal culture and modern high tech sounds.

This is how Bob Sinclar influenced the world house music and contributed for the development and the enrichment of the French house. With is innovative approaches he created a new theme in the house music and adopted the typical sounds of the peoples in his productions.