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It doesn't matter how big you think you are, or how popular you think you are, or even how smart you think you are. 'Cause when Madonna beckons, you push everything and everyone out of the way and come running.

For example, take French dance phenomenon, Mirwais Ahmadzai (known simply as Mirwais). Though he had been an influential part of the French musical landscape for years, his solo debut, Production, thrust the melodious marriage of 'human emotion and synthetic soul' and hit a chord with the Material Girl.

For electronic-dance pioneers like Daft Punk and Air, Mirwais' first band, Taxi Girl, was the source of much inspiration. Described as a cross between The Stooges, Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder (the musical mastermind behind disco divas, Donna Summer), Taxi Girl "diametrically opposed styles into an electrifying new-wave sound that entertained and inspired a generation of listeners bored by the complacency of 80s French pop."

After internal problems (much due to the drug-related death of the band's drummer), Taxi Girl disbanded in 1987. Mirwais didn't stay idle for long. He joined Juliette Et Les Independents in 1989 and started to explore the melodious introspection of acoustic pop. However, as French electronica started to erupt underground, Mirwais was drawn back into producing the music he loved.

"There are two sorts of people involved in music," Mirwais says. "People who like a specific style of music and want to do it better and people who want to experiment. Each new scene is a system and I don't want to be part of just one scene. I want to do something different."

-Leslie Simon