Tiesto, Kaskade, Avicii Featured at Las Vegas Electric Daisy Carnival : April 09, 2012

The lineup for this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival has been announced, and will feature Tiesto, Kaskade and Avicii, according to MTV News. One of the biggest dance m [...]

Tiesto, Skrillex, Crystal Method Launch San Francisco, San Diego I Love This City Festival : March 15, 2012

A new electronic music festival known as the I Love This City Festival is set to kick off this Memorial Day Weekend, and will feature Skrillex, Tiesto and Crystal Method, [...]

Ultra Music Festival Grabs Headliners Avicii, Tiesto, Kraftwerk : December 26, 2011

Miami’s electronic festival Ultra Music Fest has announced a 2012 lineup that will feature Avicii, Tiesto and Kraftwerk, among others. The three-day festival will be he [...]

Tiesto Looks to Make History at Los Angeles Concert : September 02, 2011

Tiesto will wrap up his forthcoming college tour in style with the biggest single DJ headliner concert in the history of the U.S. The super DJ from the Netherlands on [...]

Tiesto Spins the ‘Kaleidoscope’ Tour : August 09, 2009

Internationally renound DJ Tiesto will be warming up the turn tables for an 18-month run that will kick off with a trio of dates at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York ( [...]

tiesto Biography

Tiesto, the Dutch DJ, musician and electronic dance music producer, was born on January 17, 1969 in Breda, North Brabant in the Netherlands. In the past he's used several different aliases but currently goes by just Tiesto, which is a play on his nickname from childhood.

Tiesto and Arny Bink formed Black Hole Recordings label in 1997. He released “Magik” as well as “In Search of Sunrise.” In 1998 he met Dennis Waakop Reijers, the producer. Since then the pair have worked extensively together. On many of the releases of Tiesto's Reijers is credited with being the arrange, composer writer or producer. He and Ferry Corsten collaborated in 1999 as well as 2000 and created “Gouryella.” He remixed “Silence” by Delerium in 2000 which featured Sarah McLachlan, giving him exposure with an audience that was more mainstream. He released “In My Memory” his debut solo album, in 2001. The set spawned several major hits, launching his career. From 2002 to 2004, DJ Magazine named him “World's No. 1 DJ” three times in a row.

In 2004, Tiesto released “Just Be,” his second album, and then performed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece during the opening ceremony. He became the first DJ ever to perform live at the Olympics. His tracks made for the Olympics got mixed and were then released as “Parade of the Athletes,” a mix compilation, in 2004. Tiesto in April 2007 launched “Tiesto's Club Life,” a radio show, on the Netherlands station Radio 538. He also released “Elements of Life,” his third album, that year. The set reached the No. 1 spot on the Dutch as well as Billboard's Top Electronic Albums charts. In 2008 the set received a Grammy Award nomination. In October 2009 Tiesto released “Kaleidoscope,” his fourth album.