![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/calvin-harris-reveals-how-1m-a-night-vegas-residency-set-his-career-back/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/crop-23587285.jpg&description=IT can be the place to make millions, with big-money residencies and state-of-the-art venues. But Calvin Harris says his time in Las Vegas was anything but glitzy, as he was left so uninspired that it took him years to write another song. 13 Calvin Harris has shared how £1million a night Las Vegas residency actually set his career back Credit: Getty 13 Calvin is due to marry Vick Hope who had her hen do at the weekend Credit: Instagram He would earn £1million per show in Sin City but now rarely plays there after it robbed him of his creativity. In a rare interview, Calvin, inset, explained: 'I was there at least every week, playing. It got to the point where I was there a little too much. "I got tired of it.' Asked if it stifled his creativity, he said: 'One million per cent. It was unreal. No tunes were being made. 'I didn't make any tunes for a year or maybe a year and a half. I was growing carrots and that was great. "I grew watermelons, which for a Scottish lad, I was buzzing when I grew my first watermelon. "But the creative juices weren't flowing.' Thankfully the super-star — due to wed DJ Vick Hope , is now firing on all cylinders once again. The One Kiss hitmaker had one of the summer's biggest bangers with Miracle, which spent eight weeks at No1, and has revealed the unlikely secret to the song's success — seagulls. He said: 'In Miracle, my song with Ellie Goulding , I've got seagulls in the background, all the way through it. 'I've got a beachy audio track, very quietly, and there's seagulls. 'I think the seagulls are in the unconscious mind, telling people that it's summer, they want a 99 with a Flake in it and they're going to listen to Miracle.' After more than a decade in music Calvin has amassed a £220million fortune and is the world's highest-paid DJ, but he confessed he is baffled at how he got his first record deal. Calvin, who has just released a DJ mix from Ushuaia Ibiza on Apple Music, said: 'I still think it's extraordinary that I managed to ge){kind=link}
IT can be the place to make millions, with big-money residencies and state-of-the-art venues.
But Calvin Harris says his time in Las Vegas was anything but glitzy, as he was left so uninspired that it took him years to write another song.
He would earn £1million per show in Sin City but now rarely plays there after it robbed him of his creativity.
In a rare interview, Calvin, inset, explained: “I was there at least every week, playing. It got to the point where I was there a little too much.
“I got tired of it.”