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Tiesto

Tijs Verwest (born January 17, 1969 in Breda, Netherlands), or better known under his artist name DJ Tiësto or Tiësto, is one of the world's most famous trance DJs and famous figure 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".

In Europe, 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. Tijs 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".

Tijs began DJing professionally at school parties, and then moved on to becoming a resident DJ between 1985 and 1993 at several clubs in The Netherlands. During these years, he produced hardcore/gabber tracks under aliases Da Joker and DJ Limited. However, it was at "THE SPOCK" a small club in Breda, where he was able to fine tune his own style by playing in a separate room from 10pm until 4am 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 1990's by playing at the first ID&T Innercity party, and in the early 2000's 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 when he did so for over 25,000 people in Arnhem's Gelredome May 10th, 2003. Dubbed "Tiësto in Concert", the event was an enormous success for Tijs. He repeated this type of concert in the next year during two consecutive nights in late October 2004. 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. Tickets for these shows sold out in a matter of a few hours. DVDs of both his May 10th 2003 and October 30th 2004 concerts have been released. The pinnacle of his carreer is no doubt his performance at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games 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 some of his well known hit tunes and some new songs especially composed for the occasion, was released as a non stop mix-cd named "Parade of the athlethes" in october 2004.

On August 20th 2005 he took "Tiësto in Concert" to America by playing to thousands of Tiësto fans in Los Angeles, California in the LA Sports Arena. For a 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 sold 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. Tiesto also performed at the UNITY festivals, which included a stop in South Africa where, notably, he played a show in Johannesburg at the Gallagher Estate Arena to over 18,000 fans.

His hit singles include "Flight 643," "Lethal Industry," "Suburban Train," "Traffic," 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 infamous 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.

On the 18th and 19th August Tiesto performed for the first time in the Maghrib countries, he was in Hammamet, Tunisia and in the world famous disco "Pacha" at Marrakech, Morocco.

Rumors of a car crash causing his death were spread on the Internet in September 2006 but the website announcing the news turned out to be a hoax.

However, on Tuesday, September 19th, Tiësto complained of chest pains and shortness of breath. As a result, he was hospitalized in the Netherlands for a few days for medical testing. It was stated that he suffered from a condition known as pericarditis. The doctors were confident that he would make a complete recovery through the use of medication and rest. As a result of this Tiësto was forced to miss some performances he was scheduled to appear at.

On 7 October 2006 Tiësto was already back on his feet though, spinning a few tunes at Wessel van Diepen's last episode of the infamous Dutch radio show Dance Department.

One week later on the 13th he performed a special version of Dance4Life together with Blue Man Group at the Dutch TMF Awards 2006 ceremony, after being awarded the Dutch 2006 Best Dance DJ TMF Award. One day later he won the Belgian Totally TMF Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music.

22 October 2006 Tiësto played his first live DJ set in his home country for some time at the Dutch Paradiso venue, during the 2006 Amsterdam Dance Event.

On 25 October 2006 DJ Mag announced the results of the 2006 DJ Poll, where Tiësto placed 3rd, even though during the voting period he had called upon his fans to no longer vote for him but choose younger talent instead.

11 November 2006 Tiesto performed at Bang music festival in Miami, being hailed by many attending critics as the premier show of the event.

Albums (Solo)

• 2001 In My Memory (15 April, 2001)
• 2003 Nyana (11 May, 2003)
• 2004 Just Be (15 May, 2004)
• 2004 Parade of the Athletes (18 October, 2004)
• 2005 Just Be: Remixed (27 September, 2005)
• 2005 Parade of the Athletes (Unmixed) (Unknown date, 2005)

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