DJ Tiësto

Real name: Tijs Michiel Verwest

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DJ Tiësto (born 17 January, 1969, Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands), also known as Tiësto, is a Dutch electronic dance music producer and DJ. In 1997, he founded the Trance label Black Hole Recordings with Arny Bink. In 1998, Tijs met producer Dennis Waakop Reijers and this led to a long and successful collaboration. Dennis did most of the productions of the tracks between 1998 till 2006, Tiesto was not able to produce the tracks by himslef. 95% was produced by Dennis Waakop. Tiësto's fame rose in the 2000's as his music was exposed to mainstream audiences. He was named "the Greatest DJ of All Time" by Mixmag magazine in a poll voted by the fans, also considered as "God of Trance" by several fanzines. In 2001, Tijs founded another label called Magik Muzik. In 2004 became the first DJ to play onstage at the Olympics in Athens - the recording of the event has been released as 39593.
After the 188571 album in 2009, he decided to move towards more popular fields of Dance-pop, Big Room and Electro House. After selling his part of Black Hole Recordings, he founded his new label Musical Freedom (2) (known as Musical Freedom Records nowdays).
In 2025, he announced his comeback to trance with his track 35725651.