Tiësto
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| Birth name | Tijs Verwest | |
| Also known as | Tiësto | |
| Born | January 17, 1969 (age 38) Breda, Netherlands |
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| Genre(s) | Trance, Progressive Trance | |
| Occupation(s) | DJ, Producer, Remixer | |
| Years active | 1985 - present | |
| Label(s) | Black Hole Recordings, Nettwerk | |
| Website | http://www.tiesto.com/ | |
Tiësto (born Tijs Verwest on January 17, 1969 in Breda, Netherlands) is one of the world's most famous trance DJ figures in the electronic dance music scene. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto. However, his latest productions have him dropping the "DJ" label and he is now known simply as "Tiësto".
Globally, Tiësto is best known for his famous remix of the Delerium single Silence (featuring Sarah McLachlan) and for his remix of William Orbit's interpretation of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. Verwest will be permanently attached to his Tiësto alias, an Italian twist of his childhood nickname, and this acclaimed remix that brought him into the strata of world-renowned DJs. As of May 2006 Tiësto is the official worldwide ambassador for the Dance4Life foundation, fighting the spread of AIDS/HIV, for which he recorded the track dance4life.
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[edit] Career
Tijs Vervest began DJing professionally at school parties, and then moved on to become a resident DJ between 1985 and 1993 at several clubs in The Netherlands. During these years, he produced hardcore/gabber tracks under the aliases Da Joker and DJ Limited. However, it was at the Spock[2], a small club in Breda, where he was able to finetune his own style by playing in a separate room from 10 pm until 4 am on weekends. In the mid 1990s, he started to produce trance, and in 1997 he and Arny Bink co-founded Black Hole Recordings to support his work. A series of singles were released under various aliases, such as Allure, Drumfire, Hammock Brothers, Paradise in Dubs, Passenger, Roze, Stray Dog, Tom Ace, and Wild Bunch.
Black Hole Recordings and its sub-label Magik Muzik continue to sign Tiësto's vision of trance-producing talent and DJs such as Cor Fijneman, Ton TB, and Mark Norman.
Tiësto's fame started to skyrocket in the late 1990s by playing at the first ID&T Innercity party, and in the early 2000s for his six-hour "Tiësto Solo" sets which he performed without other DJs or opening acts. This idea, of one DJ playing alone to a large crowd, was brought to its pinnacle when Tiësto was the first DJ to hold a solo concert in a stadium. On May 10, 2003, he performed for over 25,000 people in Arnhem's Gelredome. Dubbed "Tiësto in Concert", the event was an enormous success for Verwest. He repeated this type of concert in the next year during two consecutive nights in late October. In addition to holding these two concerts for 35,000 of his fans, he held another for 20,000 in Hasselt, Belgium the week afterwards. DVDs of both his May 10 2003 and October 30, 2004 concerts have been released.
On August 20, 2005 Verwest took "Tiësto in Concert" to America by playing to thousands of fans in Los Angeles, California in the LA Sports Arena. For the second year in a row he performed live for a New Year's Eve/New Year's concert in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Orleans Arena to a sell-out crowd. Despite his four-city American tour being postponed due to the hurricane damage in New Orleans and Miami, playing such cities in the United States further expanded and cemented his popularity among more mainstream audiences. In the fall of 2005 he went on a very successful tour throughout Central and Eastern Europe where he played once in each country to amazing crowds of 10,000 to 15,000 fans. Stops were made in Slovakia, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Poland, and Croatia. Tiësto also performed at the UNITY festivals, which included a stop in South Africa where he played a show in Johannesburg at the Gallagher Estate Arena to over 18,000 fans.
In 2007 Tiësto will return to the large scale gigs, announcing the Elements of Life tour. Several dates have been confirmed so far. One in the Kings Hall in Belfast, Ireland on 31 March and the other in the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, Belgium on 19 May. On May 31, June 1 and 2 2007 he will perform another three live shows at Gelredome in three consecutive nights.
The pinnacle of Tiësto's career is often considered to be his performance at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, witnessed by an estimated two to four billion[citation needed] viewers around the world, another first for any DJ of any style or time period. A studio-recorded rerun of his Olympic set, including new songs especially composed for the occasion, was released as a non stop mix-CD entitled "Parade of the Athletes" in October 2004.
His hit singles include "Flight 643," "Lethal Industry," "Suburban Train," "Traffic," "Just Be," (vocals by Kirsty Hawkshaw) and his interpretation of Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings." Flight 643 was voted as the second most influential dance track of all time by ID&T fans, Lethal Industry has one of the most identifiable climaxes in trance, Suburban Train was his famous and energetic closing track, Traffic was the first instrumental track to reach #1 in the Netherlands in 23 years, and Adagio for Strings was the mind-blowing opening track at his 2003 concert. His albums are also deserving of acclaim for their quality, style and popularity. His artist albums, "In My Memory" and "Just Be," together contain these mentioned songs in addition to more of Tiësto's better known productions. His Magik CD series of 7 albums, beginning with "Magik One: First Flight" in 1997 and essentially ending with "Magik Seven: Live in Los Angeles" in 2000, was the best selling trance mix CD series of all time. The 4th episode in the successor In Search of Sunrise series contains some of the more artistically worthy trance records and is mixed by Tiësto so well it releases the listener into the warmth and energy of Ibiza and Latin America.
Tijs was the first DJ to hold DJ Magazine's 'No. 1. DJ in the World' title for the three consecutive years, in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Other honours include countless national and international best DJ awards, being named Officer of the "Order of Orange-Nassau" by the Dutch Royalty, and being voted by the Dutch people as their 40th greatest citizen of all time.
Tiësto's motto is: "I feel the energy from the crowd and I try to give it back."
Besides his solo efforts he has also worked with the support of Cor Fijneman, DJ Montana, DJ N.Cribbs - DJ FastX, Mauro Picotto and has collaborated with Benno De Goeij under the name Kamaya Painters, Armin van Buuren under the alias Major League and Alibi, and has previously worked very successfully with Ferry Corsten under the name Gouryella (which is now Ferry Corsten alone) and Vimana.
As of April 6 2007 Tiësto will start presenting a new weekly 2 hour radio show called "Club Nouveau" on Dutch radio station Radio 538 (stream @ www.radio538.nl). The show will be broadcasted on Friday night between 22.00 and midnight (GMT+1) and will supposedly also be available worldwide as a 2 hour podcast.
[edit] Discography
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[edit] Mix Compilations
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