Tijs Michiel Verwest, known professionally as Tiesto, is a Dutch DJ and music producer from Breda.
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43 Facts About Tiësto
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Tiesto is regarded as the "Godfather of EDM" by many sources.
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Tiesto met producer Dennis Waakop Reijers in 1998; the two have worked together extensively since then.
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From 1998 to 2000, Tiesto collaborated with Ferry Corsten under the name Gouryella.
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Tiesto was voted World No 1 DJ by DJ Magazine in its annual Top 100 DJs readership poll consecutively for three years from 2002 to 2004.
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Tiesto released his fourth studio album Kaleidoscope in October 2009, followed by A Town Called Paradise in June 2014.
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Tiesto won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical for his remixed version of John Legend's hit "All of Me" at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
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Tiesto began to cultivate his passion for music from age twelve.
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Tiesto used to listen to radioshows like the Ferry Maat Soulshow and In The Mix from Ben Liebrand.
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Between 1985 and 1994, Tiesto began a residency at several clubs in the Netherlands at the behest of his manager.
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Tiesto was later discovered by the general manager of Rotterdam-based Basic Beat Recordings.
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In late 1994, Tiesto signed to Basic Beat where he met Arny Bink, Tiesto 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.
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In 1998, Tiesto joined forces with fellow Dutch deejay Ferry Corsten to create the trance based duo of Gouryella.
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On 2 February 2002, Tiesto played nine consecutive hours during the second edition of the Dutch Dimension festival.
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Tiesto's fame continued to increase for then known he has in the early 2000s, following his six-hour "Tiesto Solo" sets which he performed without other DJs or opening acts.
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Tiesto 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 Tiesto in Concert.
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The Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games asked Tiesto 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.
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Tiesto flew to Athens in January 2004 to have a meeting with the ATHOC.
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Wax sculpture of Tiesto was placed behind a turntable at Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam where visitors can mix Tiesto's music together.
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The compilation was launched in the Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach to support his release, Tiesto went on his In Search of Sunrise 5 Asia Tour for more than three weeks.
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In September 2006, Tiesto was admitted to hospital after experiencing pain in his chest.
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Tiesto was diagnosed with pericarditis and subsequently had to cancel a number of shows.
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On 6 April 2007, Tiesto began presenting a new weekly two-hour radio show called Tiesto's Club Life on Dutch radio station Radio 538.
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The album consists of rock, trance and experimental music, which shows the style Tiesto has grown throughout the years since his previous albums which contained lyrics, In My Memory and Just Be.
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Together, they produced more tracks which were not released in the album, Tiesto has mentioned they would work again during the coming summer.
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In mid-2008, Tiesto 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: Asia compilation and the previously released In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza.
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Tiesto 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.
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Tiesto produced a trance-flavored song for Memphis rap duo Three 6 Mafia's album called "Feel It", which features Sean Kingston and Flo Rida.
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Tiesto followed up his third "Club Life" installment with the 2014 effort, A Town Called Paradise.
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Tiesto appeared in the 2016 Grammy-nominated documentary film about American DJ and producer Steve Aoki, titled I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.
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Tiesto was featured in the 2017 documentary starring Carl Cox and Martin Garrix, titled What We Started.
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On 2 July 2018, Tiesto released with Dzeko, Post Malone and Preme a track titled "Jackie Chan".
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On 14 June 2019, Tiesto released his remix of Avicii's posthumous "Tough Love".
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On 7 May 2020, Tiesto announced his seventh studio album The London Sessions; it was released 15 May 2020.
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In June 2014, Tiesto headlined the first-ever Thank You Festival, presented by Global Citizen in partnership with World Childhood Foundation.
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In September 2014, Tiesto headlined the free Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park.
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In September 2019, Tiesto married model Annika Backes in Amangiri, Utah, after proposing to her in 2018.
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Tiesto is a fan of Italian football club Inter Milan, and has collaborated with them on numerous occasions.
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