Tiësto

Tijs Michiel Verwest OON (Dutch: [ˈtɛis miˈxil vərˈʋɛst]; born 17 January
Tiësto
1969),[3] better known by his stage name Tiësto (/tiˈɛstoʊ/ tee-ES-toh;
OON
Dutch: [ˈcɛstoː]), is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Breda.[4][5] He was
named "the Greatest DJ of All Time" by Mix magazine in a poll voted by the
fans.[6] In 2013, he was voted by DJ Mag readers as the "best DJ of the last
20 years".[7] He is also regarded as the "Godfather of EDM" by many
sources.[a]

In 1997, he founded the label Black Hole Recordings with Arny Bink, where
he released the Magik and In Search of Sunrise CD series. Tiësto met
producer Dennis Waakop Reijers in 1998; the two have worked together
extensively since then.[17]

From 1998 to 2000, Tiësto collaborated with Ferry Corsten under the name Tiësto at the 2017 Airbeat One festival,
Gouryella. His 2000 remix of Delerium's "Silence" featuring Sarah Germany
McLachlan exposed him to more mainstream audiences. In 2001, he released Background information
his first solo album, In My Memory, which gave him several major hits that
Birth name Tijs Michiel Verwest
launched his career. He was voted World No. 1 DJ by DJ Magazine in its
Also known as Allure
annual Top 100 DJs readership poll consecutively for three years from 2002
to 2004.[18] Born 17 January 1969
Breda, Netherlands
Just after releasing his second studio album Just Be he performed live at the
Genres Progressive house ·
2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Athens, the first DJ to play
future house · electro
live on stage at an Olympics. In April 2007 Tiësto launched his radio show
house · big room
Tiësto's Club Life on Radio 538 in the Netherlands and released his third
house[1] · trance · deep
studio album Elements of Life. The album reached number one on the
house[2]
Belgian album chart as well on "Billboard Top Electronic Albums" in the
U.S. and received a nomination for a Grammy Award in 2008.[19] Tiësto
Occupation(s) DJ · record producer
released his fourth studio album Kaleidoscope in October 2009, followed by Years active 1994–present
A Town Called Paradise in June 2014. He won the Grammy Award for Best Labels AFTR:HRS · Musical
Remixed Recording, Non-Classicalfor his remixed version of John Legend's Freedom · Black Hole
hit "All of Me" at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.[20] Recordings · Spinnin'
Records
Associated acts Gouryella · Kamaya
Contents Painters · Armin van
Buuren · Hardwell ·
Early life
Steve Aoki · Martin
Career
Garrix · BT · MOTi ·
1994–2000: Early projects and success
2001–2003: In My Memory
KSHMR · DallasK ·
2004–2006: Just Be and appointment to the Order of John Christian · Oliver
Orange-Nassau Heldens
2007–2008: Elements of Life
Website tiesto.com
2009–2012: Kaleidoscope and Kiss from the Past
2013–present: Club Life and A Town Called Paradise
Income
 Philanthropy
Discography
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links

Early life
Tijs Michiel Verwest was born in Breda, Netherlands on 17 January 1969.[21] He began to cultivate a passion for music from the age
of twelve. At age fourteen, he intensified his commitment to the art, and began DJing professionally at school parties. Between 1985
and 1994, Tiësto began a residency at several clubs in the Netherlands at the behest of his manager. At the Spock, a small club in
Breda, he fine-tuned his own live style by performing from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. on weekends. In the beginning of his career as a DJ
he mostly played new beat and acid house.[21]

Career

1994–2000: Early projects and success

In 1994, he began releasing material on Noculan Records' sub-labels Chemo and Coolman. During these years, he produced hardcore
and gabber tracks under such aliases as Da Joker and DJ Limited.[21] Tiësto was later discovered by the general manager of
Rotterdam-based Basic Beat Recordings.[22]

In late 1994, Tiësto signed to Basic Beat where he met Arny Bink, Tiësto released records on the
sub-label Trashcan, founded by Arny, and later created the Guardian Angel sub-label with Arny in
which they introduced the popular Forbidden Paradise series. From 1995-96 he released four
extended plays on Bonzai Jumps and XTC, sub-labels of Lightning Records. In 1997, he joined his
friend Yves Vandichel on his sub-label, DJ Yves, a division of the now defunct Human Resource
label XSV Music. In the fall of 1997, Bink and Tiësto decided to leave Basic Beat and create their
own parent label, Black Hole Recordings, Trashcan was discontinued and Guardian Angel
continued releasing music until 2002. Through Black Hole, Tiësto released the Magik series and
also created two major sub-labels; SongBird and In Trance We Trust. From 1998-99, he released
music on Planetary Consciousness where he met A&R Hardy Heller and invited him to release
some records on Black Hole.[21]
Tiësto in Sant Antoni,
In 1998, Tiësto joined forces with fellow Dutch deejay Ferry Corsten to create the trance based duo Ibiza, prior to
performing at Amnesia,
of Gouryella.[23] The first Gouryella track, also called Gouryella, was released in May 1999 and
July 2000
became a huge hit scoring various chart positions around the world, including a top fifteen position
in the UK Singles Chart.[24][25] Tiësto showcased this track in Magik Three: Far from Earth as
well as in his set at the first ID&T Innercity party (Live at Innercity: Amsterdam RAI), his first major breakthrough.[26] The next
single, entitled "Walhalla", also made it on the charts worldwide, peaking at No. 27 in the UK Singles Chart.[27][28] Released via
Ferry's Tsunami, both singles went on to be certified Gold on record sales.[29] During these years, Tiësto also collaborated with
Benno de Goeij of Rank 1 under the name Kamaya Painters. In November 1999, he released the first installment of the In Search of
Sunrise series. Since then, he performed monthly as a resident at Gatecrasher in Sheffield, and played a 12-hour set, his longest, in
Amsterdam.[30] On December 31, 1999, he performed at Trance Energy 2000, a special party held by ID&T for the turn of the
millennium.[31][32]
Together with Armin van Buuren, Tiësto created two projects in 2000; Alibi – "Eternity",[33] which was released on Armind, and
Major League – "Wonder Where You Are?", which came out on Black Hole. After the release of "Tenshi" in September 2000, Tiësto
decided to concentrate on his solo work and left Ferry Corsten to take on the Gouryella project solely as his own.[21] Through his
first compilations and the "In Trance We Trust" series, he ended up introducing Armin van Buuren and Johan Gielen to the
mainstream. Summerbreeze marked Tiësto's U.S. debut,[22] a mix album that showcased his remix of Delerium's "Silence", which
spent four weeks in the UK's Top Ten chart and reached number three in the Billboard dance chart.[22] In Search of Sunrise 2 was
released in November 2000.

2001–2003: In My Memory
In 2001, Tiësto created a new sub-label, Magik Muzik, and released his first solo External video
album, In My Memory, which contained 5 major hits; "Lethal Industry", which was Tiësto - Urban Train ft. Kirsty
actually produced in 1999 and had only 3 copies released at that time, the track was Hawkshaw (Official Music Video)
officially released in 2001 which was remixed by Richard Durand in 2006 along
with "Flight 643" which was another leading single that was later adapted with
vocals by Suzanne Palmer and released as "643 (Love's on Fire)". Other tracks were "Obsession" in which Tiësto worked alongside
Junkie XL, the instrumental tracks "Dallas 4PM" and "Suburban Train" with "Urban Train" as its vocal version. The last singles to be
released were "In My Memory" which is the title track for the album as it only received high ratings in the United States and the
opening track "Magik Journey" which opened Tiësto in Concert (2003). On 2 February 2002, Tiësto played nine consecutive hours
[21]
during the second edition of the Dutch Dimension festival.

On 27 February, Tiësto was awarded a Zilveren ('Silver') Harp music

award. The same year he also received a Lucky Strike Dance Award in
the category Best DJ Trance/Progressive. In August he became part of
Moby's Area2 Tour. For eighteen days he travelled through the United
States with artists such as Moby himself, but also David Bowie and
Busta Rhymes. In January 2003, Tiësto received the annual Dutch
Popprijs ('Pop Award') during the Noorderslag festival. After touring
with Moby, Tiësto remixed two songs from him, "We Are All Made of
Stars" and "Extreme Ways" in the same year, having "We Are All Made Tiësto at Columbiahalle in Berlin, 2003
of Stars" reach No. 13 in the Hot Dance Club Play. In 2002 he released
his first In Search of Sunrise mix to feature a place on its name, In
Search of Sunrise 3: Panama. On 28 March 2003; Tiësto, Dieselboy, Bad Boy Bill, and Noel Sanger joined the PlayStation 2 Dual
Play tour. Tiësto and Noel's appearance began on13 April and ended on 6 June.[34]

His fame continued to increase for then known he has in the early 2000s, following 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 new. Tiësto was the first DJ to
hold a solo concert in a stadium; on 10 May 2003, he performed for 25,000 people in Arnhem's GelreDome, later called Tiësto in
Concert. He repeated the same type of concert the following year during two consecutive nights in late October.[35] In addition to
holding these two concerts for 35,000 of his fans, he held another concert for a crowd of 20,000 in Hasselt, Belgium the following
week.[35] DVDs of both his 10 May 2003 and 30 October 2004 concerts have been released, having the other DVD titled Tiësto in
Concert 2. The DVDs show the journey from the first idea to the main event, featuring live performances by Andain, Dinand
ferent times throughout the set.[36]
Woesthoff, and Jan Johnston. The event includes live music and dancers performing at dif

2004–2006: Just Be and appointment to the Order of Orange-Nassau

In 2004, he released his second artist album Just Be, which featured his first single "Traffic" which is the first non-vocal track to
[21]
reach number one spot in the Dutch national charts for 23 years.

Tiësto performing in Arnhem's GelreDome, 2004
The track "Sweet Misery" was originally written for Evanescence but
it did not meet the deadline for the release of their album. In support
to his Just Be album, he played at Breda, Eindhoven, Utrecht, and
Amsterdam; these stops were later named Just Be: Train Tour. On 20
May 2004 he was appointed Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau
by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.[37] The Athens
Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (ATHOC) asked
Tiësto to perform at the Olympic Games, making him the first DJ to
play live on stage at an Olympic Games at the 2004 Summer
Olympics opening ceremony in Athens, where he played for 90
minutes.[21]

External video
Tiësto flew to Athens in January 2004 to have a meeting with the ATHOC. His
Tiësto - Adagio For Strings
Tiësto in Concert DVD caught their attention, after which he was asked to write
(Official Music Video)
more tracks based on his opening tune "Adagio for Strings" which would fit in with
the Olympic spirit and combine the classical with the modern age. The first
rehearsal was on 7 August, for an empty stadium; the second rehearsal was on 8 August, with 35,000 volunteers. The last rehearsal
[21]
included almost 60,000 people in the stadium which was on 10 August.

During the course of his performance at the Olympics, the Dutch athletes started dancing in front of the DJ booth and had to be
moved on by officials. The performance included new tracks produced especially for the Opening Ceremony and songs that were
created to complement the spirit and theme of the ceremony. A condensed studio-recorded album of the songs played on the Olympic
set was later released, including new songs specially composed for the occasion, entitled Parade of the Athletes in October 2004.[38]
In the liner notes, he noted the IOC requested that the music not contain any lyrics as they could be inadvertently misinterpreted. In
late 2004, he began his touring across Latin America, with his release of In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama in which he gained
influence from the sun and sand in summer 2002. The tour continued in 2005, and Tiësto performed live in Brazil, Argentina, Chile,
Panama, Peru, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Venezuela and Colombia. Following the tours, In Search of Sunrise 4: Latin
America was released in 2005, featuring a second CD for the first time in theIn Search of Sunrise series.[39]

In 2005, his Perfect Remixes Vol. 3 compilation was released through Warlock Records, containing ten tracks which were created
during the beginning of his career, between those is Junkie XL, Mauro Picotto and The Roc Project. On 20 August 2005, Verwest
took Tiësto in Concert to the US when he played to 16,000 at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena with Cirque du Soleil
dancers.[40]

For the second year in a row he performed live at a New Year's Eve/New Year's concert in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Orleans Arena to
a sell-out crowd. His four-city U.S. tour was postponed due to the hurricane damage in New Orleans and Miami. BPM magazine has
an annual poll in the US which is unveiled in the WMC, in 2005 Tiësto took the No. 1 spot.[41] The influences of Los Angeles
remained with him and would later influence hisIn Search of Sunrise compilation.

A wax sculpture of Tiësto was placed behind a turntable at Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam where visitors can mix Tiësto's music
together.[42][43] Stops were made in Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia,
Poland and South Africa. The United States tour that was part ofTiësto in Concert was dwarfed by his appearance at Sensation White
in 2006 where he performed to over 45,000 people inAmsterdam.[44] The compilation was launched in the Winter Music Conference
in Miami Beach to support his release, Tiësto went on his In Search of Sunrise 5 Asia Tour for more than three weeks.[45] In
September 2006, Tiësto was admitted to hospital after experiencing pain in his chest. He was diagnosed with pericarditis and
subsequently had to cancel a number of shows.[46] With the diagnosis, he was invited to support Dance4Life to help teens who are
not aware of the risks ofHIV/AIDS.

2007–2008: Elements of Life

On 6 April 2007, Tiësto began presenting a new weekly two-hour radio show called
Tiësto's Club Life on Dutch radio station Radio 538. Ten days later, Tiësto released his
third studio album Elements of Life. The album moved 73,000 units in its April release,
according to Nielsen SoundScan.[41]

During the production of the album Tiësto in several cases sent a demo with the music to
certain artists, and they replied back with the lyrics and vocals and other duration times.
In the case of Christian Burns from BBMak, Tiësto met him through MySpace and got
in contact with him and the production of the single "In the Dark".[47] The album
consists of rock, trance and experimental music, which shows the style Tiësto has grown
throughout the years since his previous albums which contained lyrics, In My Memory
and Just Be. Producer Brian Transeau collaborated with Tiësto in three tracks, he
composed "Bright Morningstar" and "Sweet Things", and performed the vocals in the
single "Break My Fall". Together, they produced more tracks which were not released in
.[47]
the album, Tiësto has mentioned they would work again during the coming summer

Tiësto in Tallinn, 2007

External video In December 2007 it was announced
that the album was nominated for a
Tiësto - Elements of Life (Official
Grammy Award, in the category "Best
Music Video)
Electronic/Dance Album."[19] The album also received gold certifications in
Belgium, Hungary, Netherlands, and Romania. In support of the album, he
embarked on the worldwideElements of Life World Tour, and released the Copenhagen: Elements of Life World Tour DVD in 2008.

Tiësto announced his residence at Privilege. He played sets in Ibiza every Monday, from 7 July to 22 September in the style of his In
Search of Sunrise series. In 2007, he had releasedIn Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza which was inspired by the island.[48]

On 28 April, he released Elements of Life: Remixed, a recompilation of the Elements of Life album with all remixed versions. In mid-
2008, Tiësto announced his In Search of Sunrise: Summer Tour 2008, which was presented by Armani Exchange in May in support
of his In Search of Sunrise 7: Asiacompilation[49] and the previously releasedIn Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza.

2009–2012: Kaleidoscope and Kiss from the Past

On 6 October 2009, he released his fourth studio album Kaleidoscope, which featured artists such as Priscilla Ahn, Calvin Harris,
Tegan & Sara and Nelly Furtado. Unlike his earlier albums, which were all mostly trance, Kaleidoscope explores other electronic
genres, and is considered Tiesto's most experimental album. The first single "I Will Be Here" featuring Sneaky Sound System being
released in July 2009. It reached number three on the much acclaimed Driscoll 5, and lasted there for 24 weeks in the beginning of
2012.[50][51][52] In its first week, the album reached the Top 10 chart on iTunes.[53] To release the album he set up a new record label
called Musical Freedom after parting ways with Black Hole Recordings. Tiësto felt that his music was evolving in a new direction
and his focus as an artist was moving away from what Black Hole was set up to support.[54] His new tour, sharing the name of his
new album, called Kaleidoscope World Tour commenced in late September.[55]

On 16 March 2010, he released a greatest hits album, Magikal Journey: The Hits Collection 1998–2008, a two disc album focusing
on his most famous songs and remixes of his songs. On 7 April, he announced that he would start a new compilation series called A
New Dawn with his own label Musical Freedom. In his interview Tiësto furthermore confirmed that he would no longer have any
more involvement with Black Hole Recordings.[56] On 31 August, Kaleidoscope: Remixedwas released, a remix album of his album
Kaleidoscope.

Also in 2009 and 2010, Tiësto contributed songs to both the DJ Hero and DJ Hero 2 video games and is a playable character in the
second game.[57][58] He also produced a trance-flavored song for Memphis rap duo Three 6 Mafia's album called "Feel It", which
features Sean Kingston and Flo Rida.[59]
On 4 April 2011, his mix compilation Club Life: Volume One Las Vegas was
released.[60][61] On 13 June, his studio album, Kiss from the Past, was
released under his alias Allure, and featured Christian Burns, JES, and
Emma Hewitt.[62]

2013–present: Club Life and A Town Called

Paradise
External video
Tiësto - Red Lights (Official
Tiësto performing at the 2012Consumer
Music Video)
Electronics Show

Club Life: Volume Three Stockholm was released worldwide physically on 25

June 2013 and it hit #16 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart. He followed up his third "Club Life" installment with the 2014 effort, A
Town Called Paradise. The album featured an assortment of guest stars and was preceded by two singles, "Red Lights" and "Wasted"
– yielding his first two gold singles in the U.S.[63] A medley from the album also soundtracks a presentation at the Bellagio (resort)
fountain in Las Vegas, a first for a dance music artist.[64]

In a 2014 interview withDJ Magazine, Tiësto revealed why he left trance music. When asked whether his decision to leave the genre
was influential to his popularity in the United States, the Dutch producer said: "Maybe, it's hard to say. I think I'd still be the ‘Tiesto
trance guy’ but the difference is you're not really being relevant. Some of the old trance guys still have their following but it doesn't
feel like anybody really cares — and that's the biggest difference. It's nice to be in touch with the new kids who are coming up — the
16 and 18 year olds who are producing house music see me as kind of a godfather, and it's really cool to be in touch with them. I
think if I'd still been a trance DJ, they'd have been so disconnected with that sound that I wouldn't be much inspiration for them, and
vice versa."[65]

In 2015, at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, he won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical for his
remixed version of John Legend's hit "All Of Me".[20] The same year his fourth installment of the Club Life compilation series, titled
Club Life: Volume Four New York City, was released through Musical Freedom. In April 2016, he launched a deep house label,
AFTR:HRS, to promote deep house music.[66][67] He appeared in the 2016 Grammy-nominated documentary film about American
DJ and producer Steve Aoki, titled I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.[68]

On January 14, 2017, Tiësto was awarded the key to the city of Las Vegas. The day is now known as "Tiësto Day" in Clark County,
Nevada.[69] He was featured in the 2017 documentary starringCarl Cox and Martin Garrix, titled What We Started'.[70]

On October 6, 2017, the fifth installment of the Club Life series entitledClubLife,
' Vol. 5 - China' was published.[71] The compilation
album features tracks by John Christian, SWACQ, Tiësto and Z.Tao, and collaborations between Tiësto and Aloe Blacc, John
Christian, Dzeko, Diplo, KSHMR, Talay Riley, Sevenn, Stargate, SWACQ and Vassy.

[72][73]
In March 2018, Billboard named Tiesto as number eight on their 2018 ranking of dance musicians titled Billboard Dance 100.

On March 30, 2018, Tiësto released his debut EP titled I Like It Loud, featuring four songs that are collaborations with artists such as
Mesto, Matisse & Sadko and MOTi.[74]

On July 2, 2018, Tiësto collaborated withDzeko, Post Malone and Preme on a track titled "Jackie Chan".[75]

Income
In 2016, Forbes estimated that Tiësto's annual income was $39 million.[76]

Philanthropy
On 6 January 2005, Tiësto performed in an outdoor fundraiser in De Dam, Amsterdam. The free event involved Dutch artists like
Dinand Woesthoff, BLØF, Acda & De Munnik, Di-rect, and Trijntje Oosterhuis were involved in it to provide financial aid to the
people who suffered from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamiin southern and southeastern Asia.[77]

In April 2006, Tiësto was named the official worldwide ambassador for the Dance4Life foundation promoting awareness of
HIV/AIDS, as the foundation's ambassador he has helped the organisation with fundraising along with recording the track
"Dance4life" that he recorded with Maxi Jazz from Faithless. The foundation consists on a better way of living with safe sex in
exchange of entertainment to the young crowd.[78] The song was a huge success, peaking for five weeks in number 3 and eleven
consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of the Dutch Singles Chart, it reached number 5 in Belgium, number 6 in Finland and also charting
in the UK and Germany.

With the successful release of Elements of Life, Tiësto and fashion designer Giorgio Armani collaborated on a limited edition Tiësto
T-shirt available at Armani Exchange stores. His single "Sweet Things" comes with the shirt including an exclusive "A|X Remix" by
Tom Cloud which shows the great influence Tiësto has in fashion culture.[79] The charity raised over U.S. $300,000.[49]

In November 2012, Tiësto released a compilation album Dance (RED) Save Lives in collaboration with Product Red, with the aim of
[80]
donating any proceeds from the album to the fight against AIDS.

In June 2014, Tiësto headlined the first-ever Thank You Festival, presented by Global Citizen in partnership with World Childhood
Foundation.[81] As a part of the festival campaign, Tiësto took part in supporting ThankYou.org. For every song shared, the Carlson
Family Foundation donated $5 to the World Childhood Foundation.[82]

In September 2014, Tiësto headlined the freeGlobal Citizen Festivalin New York's Central Park.[83]

Discography
Studio albums

In My Memory (2001)
Just Be (2004)
Elements of Life (2007)
Kaleidoscope (2009)
A Town Called Paradise (2014)

Awards and nominations

Notes
a. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

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