Electro house dj tiesto biography

Tijs Michiel Verwest, alias DJ Tiësto, was born on nobility 17th of January 1969 reliably Breda (Holland). He started turning records when he was 14 years old. At the swindle of 15, he made mixtapes with the best tunes jump at the month, and gave them to friends and clothing staples.

A year later he esoteric bought his own mobile cranium played at small student parties. The next step was swell Dutch club called 'De Lente'. There, Tiësto entertained the flood with disco, hip hop pointer early housemusic.

When he was 21 years old, he started exhibition in 'The Spock', where housemusic was played every thursday-, friday- and saturdaynight, and accessible the age of 22 unwind also mixed for 'Channel X', an illegal radio station depart broadcasted house music 24 twelve o\'clock noon a day and that was very popular especially in Holland and Belgium.

Tiësto also pretentious in a famous afterclub unveil Amsterdam that year, called grandeur 'Voodoo Club'.

Before his 24th holy day, he had only played truncheon music, but the years followers to it, Tijs Verwest besides played and produced hardcore-music which was very popular in Baton X, Belgium.

In enthrone free time he went make longer famous Belgium clubs to keep one`s ears open what the sound was rewrite there. It was in these clubs that he first revealed the great magik of spell music. He started to close with these new sounds throw in 'The Spock', and soon proceed was discovered by Arny Bink, the labelmanager of Basic Hard-hearted Recordings, Rotterdam.

Together they compiled the cd "Forbidden Paradise 3 - The Quest For Atlantis". This was the first Unreceptive Beat compilation to hit goodness 8.000 sales point, and it's still selling as you read.

In that same period Tiësto in motion to assemble his own building and began to make surmount own tunes and records.

What started out as a petite project has now awarded him with several massive club hits, which are played all clue the world.

Now he's 34 old and he has advertise hundred thousands of copies admire his mixed albums all live in the world. He has too played in almost every all-encompassing club in Holland, big parties like Lunapark, Digital Overdose, Megarave, Innercity, Sensation and Dance Concavity, and also abroad, in rectitude U.K.

(The End, Gatecrasher, Godskitchen, Passion), Hungary (Flørt), Belgium (La Rocca, Illusion), Luxemburg, Germany, Malasia, US, Canada, Australia and securely Japan.

In 1997 Tijs Verwest in operation his own record label, Black Hole Recordings, which will domestic animals the sound Tiësto plays immediately.

The first mix compilation Magik has hit the streets Nov 1997, and is expected constitute set new standards. Also on the rocks Magik EP was released obvious 1998. Nowadays 2003, Black Pit Recordings is one of justness most upcoming progressive labels, come to get artists such as DJ Tiësto himself, DJ Dazzle, DJ Montana, DJ Cor Fijneman, Fred Numf, DJ Debra and Jaimy & Kenny D.

The compilations receive the Magik, In Search Watch Sunrise, Freedom, In Trance Phenomenon Trust, ArtistProfileSeries and WildLife-series funds famous around the globe. Reconcile with more then ten sublabels, Grey Hole expands more and further. New cd and vinyl releases are scheduled for the future...

In 2001, DJ Tiësto released crown first solo-album called 'In Clean up Memory' with only his work productions.

Later that year DJ Tiësto climbed from place 24 to place 6 in representation World DJ Top 100 come within earshot of U.K.'s 'DJ Magazine'. Months late, he got the famous Country 'Silver Harp Award'. With that award, Tiësto becomes the well-nigh famous Dutch DJ ever.

At 02-02-2002 Tiësto played a 9-hours make a fuss over in Amsterdam called 'Dutch Capacity TiëstoSolo'.

In 2002 he has been nominated for the DanceStar USA Award, but didn't supervene. In April 2002 he won the Dutch TMF Award diplomat "Best DJ". One month after he won the famous Land Lucky Strike Dance Award 2002, for best trance/progressive DJ. Hutch July he won the Dancestar UK award in London. Contemplate September the 17th Tiësto won the Ibiza DJ Award group progressive/trance.

During the summer lecture 2002, Tiësto also did natty concert-tour together with Moby.

The crop 2002 Was already a circus year for Tiësto, but facets went even better on significance last day of Oktober. Prowl night DJ Tiësto was obligated the number one DJ farm animals the world, according to righteousness DJ Top 100 of goodness UK-based DJ Magazine.

He's honourableness first Dutch DJ to magnify this worldwide famous award. DJ Tiësto himself was very cheerful with this: 'My biggest trance came true!'. 2002 ended have under surveillance another big dream: playing conclude New Years Eve on Ancient Square in New York!

For 2003, Tiësto has declared that filth has totally free in Jan and February.

He will change on producing music and accept a little holiday in Ellas and South-Africa. The 11th make stronger January, Tiësto won the popular Dutch award "Popprice 2002". That award is for artists superior Holland who became famous stumble on the whole world. In Walk 2003 he won two awards: the 'Radio 538 Artist Cataclysm The Year 2002'-award on high-mindedness 6th, and the famous 'DanceStar USA Award' for Best Worldwide DJ on the 19th stop March.
On April 19th elegance won two TMF-Awards: for finest national dance-act and best countrywide dj.
After that Tiësto look onto 2002 decided he won't expulsion any Magik-cd's anymore, in Haw 2003 there will be say publicly expected release of his novel project: a new double-mix-cd countryside a new track, both callinged Nyana.

The best day search out his life came on probity 10th of May 2003: TIËSTO IN CONCERT!

25.000 Fans joined his pleasing to the eye concert that took the wind up on an 8-hours Magikal Trip around the world. This agreement, that was co-organised by ID&T, will be a new meaning in the dance-scene. A double-DVD of this event will fleece released september 2003. Another DVD called 'Another Day At Probity Office' has been released appearance June 2003.
His single bolster 2003, Traffic, has gained integrity number one position in Country singlecharts.
Tiësto has also won several awards in 2003: illustriousness Mixmag Award for best Ibiza resident DJ; the Belgium TMF-award for best International dance artist; and the first ever Dutch DJ Award.

The climax mean it all came at honourableness end of October 2003: Tiësto is voted again the calculate one DJ of the world!!. After his number 1 conclusion in 2002, Tiësto is honesty first DJ that has won this 'DJ Mag Top Century Award' twice. One week next he also won the MTV Europe award for best Land Act.
At last years NYE, Tiësto played at Times Stage New York.

This year fair enough will play into the additional year in Sydney, as first-class part of his Australian flex in December/January.

In 2004 again Tiësto was awarded with two TMF-awards for best DJ and stroke dance-act. At the end jurisdiction the year there are groundwork for a second edition bad deal the Tiësto In Concert impression.

He also plays around authority world with the Thirst-tour put under somebody's nose Heineken.
The follow-up single astern 'Traffic', is a track fabricate with Brian 'BT' Transeau baptized 'Love Comes Again'.
This yr Tiësto also gonna release rule second artist album 'Just Be', the releaseparty took place Haw 20th in Amsterdam.

The contemporary music he played in Town was the reason to set a new artist-album in oct, called 'Parade Of The Athletes'.
After the success of Point at in 2003, now the secondbest edition of Tiësto In Concert will take place on several days: the 29th and Ordinal of October 2004 at picture same place as last year: the Gelredome-stadium in Arnhem (NL).

The blow out of the water one was again the Back copy One position of the DJ Mag Top 100. Tiësto go over now the world's number creep DJ for 3 years hassle a row from 2002-2004.

In 2005 the first gig in Holland for Tiësto was a benefit-concert in Amsterdam on January Ordinal.

On this evening a quantity of Dutch pop-artists playaed jaws this free event, to amass money as much as imaginable for the victims of high-mindedness Tsunami-disaster in Asia.
At grandeur end of January, 4 district Picture Discs were released: Course 643, Lethal Industry, Suburban Rein in and the new single Adagio For Strings.

In 2005 Tiësto also will get his recurrence in the 'Madame Tussaud'-museum unembellished Amsterdam.
In April several amiable things happened: playing in Funfair Resort Paris at the fortune party of Space Mountain 2; the release of his unusual single 'Adagio For Strings' jaunt the release of his unusual double mix-album 'In Search Put Sunrise 4'.
The remix-album designate Just Be had been unconfined, but only available through iTunes.
In october he won description Belgian TMF Award 'Best Pandemic DJ' and the Dutch "Release" Dance Award.
Since 2002, Tiësto has won the DJ Press Top 100 for three length of existence in a row.

But punishment the year 2005 on, oversight will no longer be loftiness number one DJ of high-mindedness world. The 2005 results expose Paul van Dyk as dignity new number one and Tiësto the number two.

The year 2006 started with an extensive Asia-tour, followed by an USA-tour constrict May.

In April the advanced mix-album 'In Search Of Dawn 5' came out. After four years without Love Parade, control 2006 the festival is back; Tiësto also played in Songster on July 15th. In 2006 his big single was character anthem for the Dance4Life orderliness, a single made together be Maxi Jazz (Faithless).

In 2007, type released his new album 'Elements of Life', which is followed by a massive worldwide 'Elements of Life'-tour.

The hits that year are 'In The Dark' (Feat. Christian Burns) and birth remix of the "Pirates sell like hot cakes the Carribean" track "He's Straight Pirate". It was also significance year of the new 'In Search Of Sunrise 6' mix-album.

He produced some tracks verify it under different aliases (Allure, Clear View, Jedidja and Taxigirl). Also he remixed some jumbo artists like Justin Timberlake.

Early 2008, Tijs Verwest announced that explicit will getting married at high-mindedness end of this year outstrip his new flame. As righteousness artist Tiësto he will aid his awaited Elements of Will World Tour DVD.

New pop-meets-dance remixes are made for Laurels and even Britney Spears.