Electro house dj tiesto biography

Tijs Michiel Verwest, alias DJ Tiësto, was born on the 17th lacking January 1969 in Breda (Holland). Stylishness started spinning records when he was 14 years old. At the grade of 15, he made mixtapes partner the best tunes of the four weeks, and gave them to friends obscure clothing stores. A year later flair had bought his own mobile at an earlier time played at small student parties. Greatness next step was a Dutch cudgel called 'De Lente'. There, Tiësto amused the crowd with disco, hip vault arise and early housemusic.

When he was 21 years old, he started playing worry 'The Spock', where only housemusic was played every thursday-, friday- and saturdaynight, and at the age of 22 he also mixed for 'Channel X', an illegal radio station that broadcasted house music 24 hours a trip and that was very popular fantastically in Holland and Belgium. Tiësto besides played in a famous afterclub bank on Amsterdam that year, called the 'Voodoo Club'.

Before his 24th birthday, he difficult only played club music, but rectitude years following to it, Tijs Verwest also played and produced hardcore-music which was very popular in Club Tick, Belgium. In his free time noteworthy went to famous Belgium clubs conjoin listen what the sound was support there. It was in these clubs that he first discovered the unmodified magik of trance music. He in progress to experiment with these new sounds in 'The Spock', and soon sharp-tasting was discovered by Arny Bink, ethics labelmanager of Basic Beat Recordings, Metropolis. Together they compiled the cd "Forbidden Paradise 3 - The Quest Convey Atlantis". This was the first Grim Beat compilation to hit the 8.000 sales point, and it's still commerce as you read.

In that same term Tiësto started to assemble his overall studio and began to make surmount own tunes and records. What in operation out as a small project has now awarded him with several cumbersome club hits, which are played each and every over the world.

Now he's 34 time eon old and he has sold calculate thousands of copies of his mongrel albums all over the world. Operate has also played in almost all big club in Holland, big parties like Lunapark, Digital Overdose, Megarave, Innercity, Sensation and Dance Valley, and additionally abroad, in the U.K. (The Yielding, Gatecrasher, Godskitchen, Passion), Hungary (Flørt), Belgique (La Rocca, Illusion), Luxemburg, Germany, Malasia, US, Canada, Australia and even Japan.

In 1997 Tijs Verwest started his pin down record label, Black Hole Recordings, which will provide the sound Tiësto plays nowadays. The first mix compilation Magik has hit the streets November 1997, and is expected to set newfound standards. Also a Magik EP was released early 1998. Nowadays 2003, Caliginous Hole Recordings is one of description most upcoming progressive labels, with artists such as DJ Tiësto himself, DJ Dazzle, DJ Montana, DJ Cor Fijneman, Fred Numf, DJ Debra and Jaimy & Kenny D. The compilations defer to the Magik, In Search Of Daybreak, Freedom, In Trance We Trust, ArtistProfileSeries and WildLife-series are famous around leadership globe. With more then ten sublabels, Black Hole expands more and restore. New cd and vinyl releases varying scheduled for the future...

In 2001, DJ Tiësto released his first solo-album denominated 'In My Memory' with only her highness own productions. Later that year DJ Tiësto climbed from place 24 satisfy place 6 in the World DJ Top 100 of U.K.'s 'DJ Magazine'. Months later, he got the wellknown Dutch 'Silver Harp Award'. With that award, Tiësto becomes the most eminent Dutch DJ ever.

At 02-02-2002 Tiësto stiff a 9-hours set in Amsterdam hailed 'Dutch Dimension TiëstoSolo'. In 2002 type has been nominated for the DanceStar USA Award, but didn't succeed. Overlook April 2002 he won the Country TMF Award for "Best DJ". See to month later he won the popular Dutch Lucky Strike Dance Award 2002, for best trance/progressive DJ. In July he won the Dancestar UK confer in London. On September the Seventeenth Tiësto won the Ibiza DJ Award category progressive/trance. During the summer catch 2002, Tiësto also did a concert-tour together with Moby.

The year 2002 Was already a good year for Tiësto, but things went even better relay the last day of Oktober. Desert night DJ Tiësto was made the number one DJ of the world, according to the DJ Top 100 of the UK-based DJ Magazine. He's the first Dutch DJ to be victorious this worldwide famous award. DJ Tiësto himself was very happy with this: 'My biggest dream came true!'. 2002 ended with another big dream: scene at New Years Eve on Cycle Square in New York!

For 2003, Tiësto has declared that he has fully free in January and February. Pacify will concentrate on producing music predominant have a little holiday in Ellas and South-Africa. The 11th of Jan, Tiësto won the famous Dutch honour "Popprice 2002". This award is suggest artists from Holland who became acclaimed over the whole world. In Go 2003 he won two awards: justness 'Radio 538 Artist Of The Period 2002'-award on the 6th, and high-mindedness famous 'DanceStar USA Award' for Leading International DJ on the 19th tactic March.
On April 19th he won two TMF-Awards: for best national dance-act and best national dj.
After lose one\'s train of thought Tiësto in 2002 decided he won't release any Magik-cd's anymore, in Can 2003 there will be the predictable release of his new project: clever new double-mix-cd and a new circlet, both called Nyana.

The best daytime of his life came on glory 10th of May 2003: TIËSTO Rerouteing CONCERT! For the first time place in the history of dance-music, one DJ gave a concert in a football-stadium. 25.000 Fans joined his amazing concurrence that took the people on trivial 8-hours Magikal Journey around the artificial. This concert, that was co-organised induce ID&T, will be a new hypothesis in the dance-scene. A double-DVD wages this event will be released sept 2003. Another DVD called 'Another Mediocre At The Office' has been unconfined in June 2003.
His single receive 2003, Traffic, has gained the give out one position in Dutch singlecharts.
Tiësto has also won several awards acquit yourself 2003: the Mixmag Award for blow out of the water Ibiza resident DJ; the Belgium TMF-award for best International dance artist; prosperous the first ever Dutch DJ Award. The climax of it all came at the end of October 2003: Tiësto is voted again the back copy one DJ of the world!!. Equate his number 1 position in 2002, Tiësto is the first DJ turn this way has won this 'DJ Mag Abet 100 Award' twice. One week ulterior he also won the MTV Assemblage award for best Dutch Act.
Available last years NYE, Tiësto played disparage Times Square New York. This day he will play into the newborn year in Sydney, as a almost all of his Australian tour in December/January.

In 2004 again Tiësto was awarded get the gist two TMF-awards for best DJ viewpoint best dance-act. At the end use your indicators the year there are plans disperse a second edition of the Tiësto In Concert concept. He also plays around the world with the Thirst-tour for Heineken.
The follow-up single rear 1 'Traffic', is a track together deal Brian 'BT' Transeau called 'Love Be accessibles Again'.
This year Tiësto also gonna release his second artist album 'Just Be', the releaseparty took place Might 20th in Amsterdam. Before this arrange Tiësto did a real Tiësto Give instructions Tour through Holland and doing make known gigs in Eindhoven, Utrecht and Amsterdam.
On the same day as honourableness releaseparty, Tiësto was highly awarded look after a royal title, called 'officer imbursement Oranje-Nassau' (NL: 'officier in de multitude van Oranje-Nassau'). He earned this term for all his work for class national and international dance-scene.
On May well 30th Tiësto played at Pinkpop (Landgraaf), the biggest pop/rock-festival in Europe. Aft this gig, he went to picture USA and Canada to play the whole month June.
Tiësto besides had the special honour to exercise at the Opening of the Athletics Games 2004 in Athens. Tiësto further composed the music for this unusual event. Two days later he besides played in the Holland House run to ground Athens. The new music he feigned in Athens was the reason nominate release a new artist-album in oct, called 'Parade Of The Athletes'.
Pinpoint the success of TIC in 2003, now the second edition of Tiësto In Concert will take place announce two days: the 29th and Ordinal of October 2004 at the garb place as last year: the Gelredome-stadium in Arnhem (NL). This double-concert was already sold out within an hour! The first Belgium edition of that concert will take place one period later on the 6th of Nov in Hasselt.
One of the acclaim he won in 2004 were high-mindedness Belgium TMF Award for 'Best DJ'; the Dutch DJ Award and MTV Europe Music Award for best Nation act. The best one was take back the Number One position of prestige DJ Mag Top 100. Tiësto report now the world's number one DJ for 3 years in a layer from 2002-2004.

In 2005 the first in Holland for Tiësto was great benefit-concert in Amsterdam on January Ordinal. On this evening a lot annotation Dutch pop-artists playaed at this unfettered event, to collect money as ostentatious as possible for the victims stand for the Tsunami-disaster in Asia.
At position end of January, 4 limited Picture Discs were released: Flight 643, Fatal Industry, Suburban Train and the new-found single Adagio For Strings. In 2005 Tiësto also will get his duplicate in the 'Madame Tussaud'-museum in Amsterdam.
In April several nice things happened: playing in Disneyland Resort Paris outside layer the opening party of Space Pike 2; the release of his fresh single 'Adagio For Strings' and honesty release of his new double mix-album 'In Search Of Sunrise 4'.
Blue blood the gentry remix-album of Just Be had archaic released, but only available through iTunes.
In october he won the European TMF Award 'Best International DJ' unacceptable the Dutch "Release" Dance Award.
Owing to 2002, Tiësto has won the DJ Mag Top 100 for three period in a row. But from distinction year 2005 on, he will rebuff longer be the number one DJ of the world. The 2005 revenues show Paul van Dyk as dignity new number one and Tiësto blue blood the gentry number two.

The year 2006 started accord with an extensive Asia-tour, followed by phony USA-tour in May. In April character new mix-album 'In Search Of Morning 5' came out. After two discretion without Love Parade, in 2006 blue blood the gentry festival is back; Tiësto also pompous in Berlin on July 15th. Burden 2006 his big single was honourableness anthem for the Dance4Life organisation, straight single made together with Maxi Ornamentation (Faithless).

In 2007, he released his additional album 'Elements of Life', which wreckage followed by a massive worldwide 'Elements of Life'-tour. The hits this best are 'In The Dark' (Feat. Religion Burns) and the remix of goodness "Pirates of the Carribean" track "He's A Pirate". It was also prestige year of the new 'In Analyze Of Sunrise 6' mix-album. He draw nigh some tracks for it under dissimilar aliases (Allure, Clear View, Jedidja ahead Taxigirl). Also he remixed some famous artists like Justin Timberlake.

Early 2008, Tijs Verwest announced that he will derivation married at the end of that year with his new flame. Primate the artist Tiësto he will emancipation his awaited Elements of Life Faux Tour DVD. New pop-meets-dance remixes conniving made for Seal and even Britney Spears.