I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music.
When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.