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COLEGIUL NATIONAL “DOAMNA STANCA”LUCRARE DE ATESTAT

DJ TIESTO

PROFESOR INDRUMATOR: ELEV:ACHIM BRIGITA IARTO

ALEXANDRUCL

ASA:XII E

PROFIL:Matematică-Informatică bilingv Engleză

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MAI 2009

CONTENTS:

1. Quick bio2. Tiesto – The artist – musical career

• 1969 – 2000 : Early life and musical career• 2000 – 2002 : Rise to fame• 2003 – 2004 : Solo In Concert and Olympics• 2005 – 2006: Worldwide popularity and touring• 2007: Elements of Life• 2008: In Search of Sunrise Summer Tour• 2009 – Present

3. Tiesto – The Man – His personal life• Philanthropy• Personal life

4. Discography5. Tours6. Filmography7. Awards overview

• Titles•

Awards• Nominations

8. Bibliography

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Quick bio

Tiësto born as Tijs Michiel Verwest on January 17, 1969 in Breda, NorthBrabant, Netherlands is a Dutch trance DJ and record producer. Trance is astyle of electronic dance music developed in the early 1990s. Trance music isgenerally characterized by a tempo of between approximately 128 and 150BPM, melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that is progressive as

it builds up and down throughout a track. Trance is a combination of manyforms of electronic music, such as ambient, techno, and house Tiësto became a DJ because he 'liked to share music with other people.When I was younger, I'd listen to a radio show called the Soul Show, and toBen Liebrand's mix radio program, where he would remix and cut updifferent tracks, and I just thought - I want to do this!' The productions camelater, in 1995. 'I really wanted to produce music that I could play in my sets,because it brings much more fulfilment to the process. I bought somesamplers, some computer programs, and just started working on it.' Hemakes it sound easy – indeed; he makes it look easy as 10 years down theline his productions consistently bother the charts and frequently reach

number one around Europe.In 1997 he founded the label Black Hole Recordings with Arny Bink, where hereleased the famous Magik, In Search Of Sunrise, and Nyana mixcompilations. In 1999 he collaborated with Ferry Corsten to create Gouryell(a Dutch trance act , the word itself means "heaven" in an aboriginelanguage. They are best known for the self-titled song "Gouryella" and thefollow-up single "Walhalla"; both are regarded in the club circuit as all timeclassic trance songs.). The act released songs that are regarded in the clubcircuit as all-time classic trance songs. In 2001 he released his first soloalbum In My Memory which gave him several major hits that launched hiscareer as well as his remix of Delerium's "Silence" featuring Sarah McLachlan

which exposed him to more mainstream audiences. As his popularity rose inthe early 2000s he became the first DJ to perform to a large crowd withoutany other DJs or opening acts. He was crowned the "World’s No.1 DJ" 3consecutive times by DJ Magazine from 2002 through 2004.

Just after releasing his second studio album Just Be in 2004, at the SummerOlympics he performed live at the opening ceremony in Athens, Greecebecoming the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympics Games. The live

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performance was released as the mix-CD Parade of the Athletes later thatyear. He was chosen as the official ambassador for the Dance4Lifefoundation in May 2006, and released the song "Dance4Life" with Maxi Jazzto help spread the awareness of HIV/AIDS. In April 2007 Tiësto launched bothhis radio show "Club Life" on Radio 538 in the Netherlands and released his

fourth studio album titled Elements of Life. The album reached number oneon the Dutch album chart as well on "Billboard Top Electronic Albums" in theU.S. and received a nomination for a Grammy Award in 2008.

Tiesto – The artist – Musical career

1969–2000: Early life and musical beginning

He had an interest for music since the age of twelve. When he was fourteenhe decided to dedicate more time to it and began DJing professionally atschool parties and then moved on to become a resident DJ between 1985and 1994 at several clubs in the Netherlands after his manager and friendWilfred encouraged him. During these years, he produced hardcore/gabbertracks under aliases such as Da Joker and DJ Limited.However, it was at TheSpock, a small club in Breda, where he was able to fine-tune his own style byplaying in a separate room from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. on weekends. In thebeginning of his career as DJ he mostly played new beat and acid house, andmany Madonna songs because her music shows that she likes to dance.Before the release of her album there were already dance mixes like "Vogue"which was one of the songs of Spock.[He was discovered by the generalmanager of Rotterdam-based Basic Beat Recordings. Tiësto released his firstof five mix CDs as a part of the label's Forbidden Paradise series.

In the mid-1990s, he started to produce trance, which led to hisbreakthrough in 1995 when he started building mixed compilations,something nobody else did at that time. Tiësto describes his Magik series aspart of his breakthrough. in 1997 he and Arny Bink co-founded Black HoleRecordings to support his work releasing a series of singles under variousaliases.Black Hole Recordings and its sub-label Magik Muzik: 'Everything onMagik Muzik is what you'll find in my sets, which makes it more of my ownlittle project”. This sub-label continue to sign Tiësto's vision of trance –producing musicians and DJs such as Cor Fijneman, Ton TB, Mark Normanand Joe Cheang. During this period, DJ Tiësto had been releasing the Magikseries, which has had seven instalments starting in 1997 and ending in 2001,after this Tiësto began releasing the In Search of Sunrise series, that is acompilation of Tiësto's mixes with tracks from other DJs. In 1999, Tiësto joined forces with fellow Dutch deejay Ferry Corsten to create the trancebased duo of Gouryella. To highlight the importance in the expansion of the

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trance environment at the time, there were 20 different CD releases of the 4Gouryella tracks from 9 different labels. Since November 1999 he performedmonthly as a resident in Gatecrasher at Leeds, one of the most popular clubsin England. In 1999 he also played in a 12-hour set, being his longest lastingconcert in Amsterdam.

2000–2002: Rise to fame

Late in 2000, Tiësto decided to concentrate on his personal work and leftCorsten by himself to write and produce Gouryella's next single with JohnEwbank, the record company was demanding more tracks and neither Tiëstoor Ferry could work together at the time, Tiësto introduced Armin vanBuuren, Johan Gielen and Ferry Corsten to the mainstream with his firstcompilations and the In Trance We Trust series. Summerbreeze became Tiësto's debut DJ mix album in the United States with the help of a contractsigned to Nettwerk Summerbreeze featured his remix of Delerium's

"Silence", it spent four weeks in the United Kingdom's Top Ten chart, itreached number three in the Billboard dance chart. In Search of Sunrise 2was released in 2000. There has been a legendary anecdote amongst dancemusic fans that Tiësto broke a world record by drinking "31 cans of Red Bullin 24 hours" in 2001, and he admitted he would never try and break it again. Tiësto's fame started to rise in the early 2000s after his set at the first ID&TInnercity party (Live at Innercity: Amsterdam RAI), and the release of In MyMemory, his first solo album released in 2001 which contained 10 singlesand 5 major hits; The singles from the album were: "Lethal Industry" whichwas actually produced in 1999 and had only 3 copies released at that time,the track was officially released in 2001 which was remixed by Richard

Durand in 2006 along with "Flight 643" which was another leading single thatwas later adapted with vocals by Suzanne Palmer and released as "643(Love's on Fire)". Other tracks were "Obsession" in which Tiësto workedalong Junkie XL also known as Tom Holkenborg, the instrumental tracks"Dallas 4PM" and "Suburban Train" with "Urban Train" as it's B-Side whichcontained some vocals. 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 theUnited States and the opening track "Magik Journey" which opened Tiësto inConcert (2003). On February 2, 2002 Tiësto played nine consecutive hoursduring the second edition of the Dutch Dimension festival. On February 27 hewas 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. Foreighteen days he travelled through the United States with artists such asMoby himself, but also David Bowie and Busta Rhymes. After Junkie XL'schart topping success with the Elvis Presley remix "A Little LessConversation", Tiësto releases a remix of the Elvis track "Burning Love", hewas then nominated for a Dance Award by the UK's Muzik Magazine in thecategory Best Radio 1 Essential Mix. In January 2003 Tiësto received the

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annual Dutch Popprijs ('Pop Award') during the Noorderslag festival. Aftertouring 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 of Stars" reach #13 in the Hot Dance Club Play. In 2002 he released his first InSearch of Sunrise mix to feature a place on its name, In Search of Sunrise 3:

Panama. On March 28, 2003; Tiësto, Dieselboy, Bad Boy Bill, and NoelSanger joined the PlayStation2 Dual Play tour. Tiësto and Noel's appearancebegan on April 13 and ended on June 6.

2003–2004: Solo In Concert and Olympics

His fame continued to skyrocket in the early 2000s following his six-hour"Tiësto Solo" sets which he performed without other DJs or opening acts. Thisidea, of one DJ playing alone to a large crowd, was brought to its pinnaclewhen Tiësto was the first DJ to hold a solo concert in a stadium; on May 10,2003, he performed for over 25,000 people in Arnhem's Gelredome.] This

concert was later called Tiësto in Concert, the event was an enormoussuccess. He repeated the same type of concert the following year during twoconsecutive nights in late October. In addition to holding these two concertsfor 35,000 of his fans, he held another concert for a crowd of 20,000 inHasselt, Belgium the following week.] DVDs of both his May 10, 2003 andOctober 30, 2004 concerts have been released, having the other DVD titled Tiësto in Concert 2. The DVD's show the journey from the first idea to themain event, it features live performances by Andain, Dinand Woesthoff, and Jan Johnston. The event includes live music and dancers performing atdifferent times throughout the set. The theme of the event is a mystical,musical journey around the world based on the theme of Magik. It consists of

200+ minutes of performances with a second disc with special features, Itincludes a behind-the-scenes looking at The Making Of the event, the musicvideo for his song "Traffic" and TV Commercials for the event. The secondDVD has performances from Aqualung and violin player DJ Mason, MichaKlein and the Bulgarian Children of Orpheus choir. During this period he wascrowned as "No. 1. DJ in the World" by DJ Magazine (UK) in 2002, 2003, and2004.[27] In 2004 he released his second artist album Just Be, whichfeatured his first single "Traffic" which is the first non-vocal track to reachnumber one spot in the Dutch national charts for 23 years. Tiësto and KirstyHawkshaw's production and single "Just Be" appeared in the Nip / Tuck:Original TV Soundtrack, and "Love Comes Again" was used in a Coca-Cola

commercial in Holland. The track "Sweet Misery" was originally written forEvanescence but it did not meet the deadline for the release of their album. Tiësto's remix of the Kane song "Rain Down on Me" is featured in the gameFIFA Football 2004. In support to his Just Be album, he played at Breda,Eindhoven, Utrecht, and Amsterdam; these stops were later named Just Be: Train Tour, this tour was not planned for people to know about it. On May 20,Ascension Day, when he got on the train in his hometown of The Hague to go

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to Breda, he was honoured by the mayor and the citizens, he was thennamed an officer in the name of the royal family Orange-Nassau. The Olympic Flame at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

The Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (ATHOC) asked Tiësto to perform at the Olympic Games, making him the first DJ to play liveon stage at an Olympic Games at the 2004 Summer Olympics openingceremony in Athens for 90 minutes.

Tiësto flew to Athens in January 2004 to have a meeting with the ATHOC. His Tiësto in Concert DVD caught their attention, after which he was asked towrite more tracks based on his opening tune "Adagio for Strings" which couldfit in with the Olympic spirit and combine the classical with the modern age; They also request him to play his own produced music. The first rehearsalwas on Saturday 7, August for an empty stadium; the second rehearsal was

on Sunday 8 with 35,000 volunteers, a lot of the people recognised sometracks like "Traffic" and "Adagio for Strings". The last rehearsal includedalmost 60,000 people in the stadium which was on Tuesday 10, there weresome technical problems, the mixer broke down, the monitors dropped out acouple of times and the music in the stadium was not continuously on theright volume.

During the parade on Friday 13, all participating nations introduced theirathletes which were over 10,500 in total and 80,000 in the public, only75,000 knew about dance music. During the course of his performance theDutch athletes started dancing in front of the DJ booth and had to be moved

on by officials. The performance included new tracks produced especially forthe Opening Ceremony and songs that were created to complement thespirit and theme of the ceremony. A condensed studio-recorded album of thesongs played on the Olympic set was later released, including new songsespecially composed for the occasion, entitled Parade of the Athletes inOctober 2004. In the liner notes, he noted the IOC requested to him that themusic not contain any lyrics as they could be inadvertently misinterpreted.After some success an unmixed version was also released exclusively oniTunes, it featured full length tracks.

2005–2006: Worldwide popularity and touring

In late 2004 he began his touring across Latin America, with his release of InSearch of Sunrise 3: Panama in which he gained influence from the sun andsand in summer in 2002, the tour continued in 2005 and Tiësto performedlive at Brazil, Argentina, Panama, Peru, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Colombia.Following the tours, In Search of Sunrise 4: Latin America was released in2005, featuring a second CD for the first time in the In Search of Sunrise

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series. This was the first DJ mix compilation in almost a year since Nyana andWorld Leader.In 2005 his Perfect Remixes Vol. 3 compilation was released through WarlockRecords, containing ten tracks which were created during the beginning of his career, between those is Junkie XL, Mauro Picotto and The Roc Project. On

August 20, 2005 Verwest took Tiësto in Concert to the United States when heplayed to 16,000 of fans in Los Angeles, California in the Los AngelesMemorial Sports Arena with Cirque du Soleil dancers. For the second year ina row he performed live at a New Year's Eve/New Year's concert in LasVegas, Nevada at the Orleans Arena to a sell-out crowd. Despite his four-cityAmerican tour being postponed due to the hurricane damage in New Orleansand Miami, playing such cities in the United States further expanded andcemented his popularity among more mainstream audiences. Even this wassurpassed later in the 2007 summer where some 250,000 people danced onIpanema Beach, Brazil, the second largest concert in the history of mankind.BPM magazine has an annual poll in the United States which is unveiled in

the WMC, in 2005 Tiësto took the No. 1 spot. The influence of Los Angeles inthe United States stayed with him as he lived there which would laterinfluence on his future In Search of Sunrise compilation.On April 16, 2005, Disneyland Resort Paris who had recently inaugurated theSpace Mountain: Mission 2, had invited Tiësto to celebrate the launch of theride by offering a live concert in Disneyland Park. Tiësto performed a specialremix of the Space Mountain: Mission 2 soundtrack, as well as many of hisown tracks. Tiësto's Space Mountain: Mission 2 concert also featured Frenchdeejay Bob Sinclar, the park would re-open for Tiësto's fans so they couldstay for the 3 hour concert. A sculpture of Tiësto was placed behind aturntable where Madame Tussauds visitors can mix Tiësto's music together

with the man himself and he also won and Edison music award in thecategory Best Dance. The Dutch national football competition is the mostviewed programme on Dutch television, Tiësto is the first potential artist tobecome an inspiration to the programmes directors which created a tunebased on his performance in the Olympic Games. The tune "Match of theday" was played in all football stadiums before each match when the teamsentered the field.In the fall of 2005 he went on a very successful tour across Central andEastern Europe where he played once in each country to crowds of 10,000 to15,000 fans. Stops were made in Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, Macedonia,Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia, and Poland. Tiësto

also performed at the UNITY festival in South Africa where he played a showat the Gallagher Estate Arena in Midrand, a suburb of Johannesburg, to over18,000 fans. The United States tour that was part of Tiësto in Concert wasdwarfed by his appearance at Sensation White in 2006 where he performedto over 45,000 people in the world's biggest dance event in Amsterdam,Holland. The events presale began at 10:00 a.m. on March 10, it was sold outwithin 2 hours. During 2005 he also made a small appearance in the award-

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winning film It's All Gone Pete Tong as himself. He also contributed the song"Goldrush" to the PlayStation Portable futuristic racing game Wipeout Pure.

2007: Elements of Life “ there is only one way to discover the essence of our life , to get aknowledge about the coralation of the elements that make life possible,that’s why it is imperative to learn about the existence and the function of the elements . These components are better known as the elements of life “

On April 6, 2007 Tiësto began presenting a new weekly two-hour radio showcalled Tiësto's Club Life on Dutch radio station Radio 538. XM Satellite Radioin the United States later started broadcasting the show on Channel 81 BPMas part of their Global Domination lineup on Saturday nights. The show isbroadcast on Radio 538 on Friday nights between 22:00 CET and midnight

and on BPM on Saturday nights between 8:00 p.m. ET and 10:00 p.m. ET. The first hour is also available as a podcast on the Radio 538 website and oniTunes audio podcasts.

On April 16, 2007, Tiësto released his fourth studio album Elements of Life,the album moved 72,000 units in its April release, according to NielsenSoundScan. During the production of the album Tiësto in several cases senta demo with the music to certain artists, and they replied back with the lyricsand vocals and other duration times. In the case of Christian Burns fromBBMak, Tiësto met him through MySpace and got in contact with him and theproduction of the single "In the Dark The album consists of rock, trance and

experimental music, which shows the style Tiësto has grown throughout theyears since his previous albums which contained lyrics, In My Memory and Just Be. Producer Brian Transeau collaborated with Tiësto in three tracks, hecomposed "Bright Morningstar" and "Sweet Things", he also performed thevocals in the single "Break My Fall". Together, they produce more trackswhich were not released in the album, Tiësto has mentioned they would workagain during the coming summer. In December 2007 it was announced thatthe album was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the category "BestElectronic/Dance Album."The album also received gold certifications inBelgium, Hungary, Netherlands, and Romania. Streamline Studios, anindependent game developer and digital content provider for AAA

videogames and Black Hole Recordings have formed, a joint venture whichwill provide sound solutions for digital entertainment including the entirecatalog of Black Hole's artists. The first work that Streamline Sound hascontributed is on the massively multiplayer online role-playing PC gameSword of the New World: Granado Espada with 17 12" tracks, ForzaMotorsport 2 which includes Tom Clouds' track "Told You So" and HoopWorld.A special release party was held at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam onNovember 3, 2007 for In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza. The compilation was

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awarded in the 2008 WMC Awards in Miami, it won for "Best Full Length DJMix CD". Tiësto in 2007

His last three full-length releases broke the 70,000-unit mark, and 2003 2CDcompilation Nyana recently hit 87,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Insupport of the album, he embarked on his Elements of Life World Tour whichhad shows across the world, South and Latin America brought some of thebiggest crowds on his January and February South American leg of the tour.On January 7, he played to an amazing 200,000 people in the streets of Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro. On February 16, 2008 he played in India atthe Gachibowli Stadium, Hyderabad. Though this show had a low turn out of only 5000, it was his first show in India. Tiësto's performance at ParkenStadium in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 10, 2007 was also sold out. The Copenhagen: Elements of Life World Tour DVD was released in a party

which was held on February 29, 2008 from 8 p.m. - 3 a.m. in London at theIndigO2 club.

Tiësto opened a new club-restaurant acquisition with Chinese cuisine, dancemusic and live entertainment on June 7, 2007 called Cineac. Tiëstoinaugurated with his new Cineac Anthem called "Happy People". Guests arewelcome to see various modern styles of music mixed by some known topDJs. It was later renamed "The Mansion". Tiësto and Reebok introduced thenew 'Tiësto shoe' in November 2007. The shoebox comes with a speciallimited-edition Tiësto & Reebok CD, containing the Elements of Life albumand the bonus disc. Only 1000 pair units were available for sale in the

Netherlands. Previously Tiësto & Reebok had released "Run the DJ Tiësto",which consisted of another shoe release with Tiësto as one of the designers.He now owns a line of Reebok RBK shoes and was recently tapped byMicrosoft to launch its new Vista operating system for the Dutch market,placing him on par with Robbie Williams, who performed a similar duty in theUnited Kingdom. The partnership includes a Vista application built especiallyfor Tiësto, which had more than a thousand downloads from his website aday during its first week of availability. It has a Tiësto toolbar for sorting, aplug-in application which allows fans to be informed with the DJ in real-timeand get live alerts on gigs, appearances and new music. Tiësto introducedthe application at the Jan. 29 Vista launch event in Amsterdam.

2008: In Search of Sunrise Summer Tour

Tiësto announced his residence at Privilege which was officially recognisedby the Guinness World Records as being the largest club in the world. Heplayed in Ibiza every Monday, from July 7 until September 22. The gigsconsisted of four hour sets in the style of his In Search of Sunrise series. In2007 he had released In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza which was inspired by the

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island. The residencies also featured the performance of guest deejays, allselected by Tiësto, such as Chris Lake, Andy Duguid, Mat-Zo, Cosmic Gate,Alex Kunnari and Sander van Doorn as well as exclusive appearances byFonzerelli and Airbase.

On April 28, Tiësto released Elements of Life: Remixed, a recompilation of the Elements of Life album with all songs except "He's A Pirate" beingreplaced by remixed versions, and "He's A Pirate" being replaced by "NoMore Heroes", a joint production with mute performer trio Blue Man Group. The song is a remake of the song "Heroes" in his previous album Parade of the Athletes. In mid-2008, Tiësto announced his In Search of Sunrise:Summer Tour 2008, the tour will be presented by Armani Exchange on May23 and ending on July 4 at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on Friday13, June and ETD Pop Festival in San Francisco. This tour is in support of hisupcoming In Search of Sunrise compilation, which is part of a sponsorshippartnership, with exclusive apparel and a limited edition 3 CD set. An

exclusive best of CD from the DJ’s own imprint Black Hole Recordings, called10 Years of Black Hole Recordings will be released later in the year. Armaniwill also sell an exclusive Tiësto branded tour T-shirt, and the artist willperform at three A|X in-stores during the tour. The tour is based on hispreviously released In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza and In Search of Sunrise 7:Asia compilations. On August 8, 2008 Tiësto became the first DJ to performat the famous O2 Arena in London as part of his In Search of Sunrise 7summer tour, the event was sold out with a capacity of 20,000 people, theevent hosted him for 5 hours with 200 square metres (239 sq yd) of LEDwall, a 200,000 watt sound system, and 300,000 more watts of lightning.Earlier that day, Tiësto had performed in-store at Armani Exchange on

Regent Street in central London.

Due to the past 2008 Olympic Games in August, New York’s Ultra Recordsannounced it is a partner in Coca-Cola’s upcoming WE8 bottle campaign, apromotion that celebrates Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the Olympic Games inBeijing as well as art and music. Eight musicians and eight artists werechosen, including Tiësto, to create tracks inspired by some speciallydesigned Coke bottles. Tiësto produced a song inspired on "Global Harmony"and on Xiao Xue's design of the Coke bottle which is titled Global Harmony; This is not his first time to be involved with the Olympic Games or Coca-Cola,previously Tiësto participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics and also

produced a song for Coca-Cola titled "Searching" which was used on atelevision commercial. "Corona and Lime", a song by Shwayze includes Tiësto's name in the lyrics, "Bump techno by DJ Tiësto".In November Tiësto took Maroon 5's "Not Falling Apart" as they requested tohave him remix a song from their album It Won't Be Soon Before Long whichwill be included on Call and Response: The Remix Album which features avariety of their favourite artists. The remix of "Not Falling Apart" is the onlyversion of the song included in the remix album which was released on

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December 8. On November 29, artists like Tiësto himself, Sied van Riel, LeonBolier, Joop, and MC Gunner presented a concert at The Sand, Amsterdampromoted by Dance4Life, the sales from the event will go to the foundationto support next year's Schools4Life project. On New Year's Eve he played atRoseland Ballroom in New York City, the next day he played at the Bell

Centre in Montreal, ending his In Search of Sunrise: Summer Tour 2008 andto begin 2009.

2009–present

On December 5, 2008, the annual Ultra Music Festival that's held in Miamireleased an "exclusive initial line-up" for Ultra 2009 which stated that Tiëstowill be performing along with Carl Cox, deadmau5, Bloc Party and others onMarch 27, 2009

Tiesto – The man – Personal Life

Philanthropy On January 6, 2005 Tiësto performed in an outdoor fundraiser in De Dam,Amsterdam, the event was free and many famous Dutch artists like DinandWoesthoff, Bløf, Acda & De Munnik, Di-rect, Berget Lewis, Xander de Buisonjéand Trijntje Oosterhuis were involved in it to provide financial aid to thepeople who suffered from the tsunami in Southern and Southeastern Asia. Allprofits made of all TV commercials and live broadcast were given to theorganisations collecting the relief funds.

In April 2006 Tiësto was named the official worldwide ambassador for theDance4Life foundation promoting awareness of HIV/AIDS, as the foundation'sambassador he has helped the organisation with fundraising along withrecording the track "Dance4life" that he recorded with Maxi Jazz fromFaithless. The foundation consists on a better way of living with safe sex inexchange of entertainment to the young crowd.] The song charted #1 twicein the Bulgarian Singles Chart and #3 in the Dutch Top 40. The song was ahuge success, peaking for five weeks in #3 and eleven consecutive weeks inthe Top 10 of the Dutch Singles Chart, it also reached #5 in Belgium, #6 inFinland and also charting in the UK and Germany. With the successfulrelease of Elements of Life, Tiësto and fashion designer Giorgio Armani

collaborated together on a limited edition Tiësto T-shirt available at ArmaniExchange stores. His single "Sweet Things" comes with the shirt including anexclusive "A|X Remix" by Tom Cloud which shows the great influence Tiëstohas in fashion culture. The charity raised over US$300,000.

Personal life

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Until early 2006 Verwest had a relationship with the beauty contest winnerMonique Spronk. On January 10, 2008, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf announced that Tiësto and his girlfriend Stacey Blokzijl were going to getmarried on October 10, 2008. He proposed to her in December 2007 whilethey were visiting Mauritania. Tiësto cancelled his wedding for October 10,

because he claimed to have a busy schedule and too little time for thepreparations. Around Christmas 2008 Stacey Blokzijl broke up with Tiëstobecause of the constant delay of their wedding.He genuinely enjoys his achievements, but Tiësto keeps both feet on theground: 'It's hard to look too far into the future. Every couple of months itseems that something new, unexpected and exciting is happening!'

Discography

Studio albums

• 2001: In My Memory• 2004: Just Be• 2007: Elements of Life• 2009: TBA

Other albums

• 2004: Parade of the Athletes• 2006: Just Be: Remixed• 2008: Elements of Life: Remixed

Videos/DVDs

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2003: Another Day at the Office• 2003: Tiësto in Concert• 2004: Tiësto in Concert 2• 2008: Copenhagen: Elements of Life World Tour

Tours

• 2002: Area2 Tour• 2004: Just Be: Train Tour• 2005: Tiësto in Concert: North America Tour 2005•

2005: Central Eastern European Tour 2005• 2006: In Search of Sunrise 5 Asia Tour• 2007-2008: Elements of Life World Tour• 2008: In Search of Sunrise: Summer Tour 2008

Filmography

• Raves: The Experience (2000)13



• Dance TV (2000)• Hey DJ (2003)• Tussen de sterren (episode: "1.3", 2003)• Athens 2004 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony (2004)• It's All Gone Pete Tong (cameo, 2004)• Liquid Vinyl (2005)• Lydverket (episode: "trance special", 2005)• De Wereld draait door (episode: "2.56", 2006)• De Nieuwste show (episode: "2.30", 2008)

Awards Overview

Titles• 2000: DJMag Top 100 DJ Ranking: 24th (debut)• 2001: DJMag Top 100 DJ Ranking: 6th

• 2002: DJMag Top 100 DJ Ranking: 1st• 2003: DJMag Top 100 DJ Ranking: 1st• 2003: 40th greatest Dutch citizen of all time• 2003: Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau• 2004: DJMag Top 100 DJ Ranking: 1st• 2005: DJMag Top 100 DJ Ranking: 2nd• 2006: DJMag Top 100 DJ Ranking: 3rd• 2006: International Dance4Life Ambassador• 2007: DJMag Top 100 DJ Ranking: 2nd• 2008: Beatport Music Awards: 2nd Best Trance Artist• 2008: DJMag Top 100 DJ Ranking: 2nd• 2009: Mix Mag's #1 DJ of 2008

Awards

• 1999 Gold Sales Award (Gouryella)• 2000 Gold Sales Award (Walhalla)• 2002 Zilveren Harp Music Award• 2002 Lucky Strike Dance Award• 2002 Dutch Popprijs• 2002 Ibiza DJ Award: Best International DJ Trance• 2003 World Dancestar Award U.S.A.: Best International DJ

• 2003 ID&T Dutch DJ Award: Best Dutch DJ by professional jury• 2003 ID&T Dutch DJ Award: Best Dutch DJ by audience• 2003 Radio 538 Dance Award: Radio 538 Dutch Audience Edison• 2003 TMF Award Holland: Best Dance Act National• 2003 TMF Award Holland: Best National DJ• 2003 TMF Award Belgium: Best Dance International• 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards: Best Dutch Act

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• 2003 BG Magazine Award: Best Club/Trance/Hardhouse DJ• 2003 Mixmag Award: Best Resident Ibiza• 2004 ID&T Dutch DJ Award: Best Dutch DJ by audience• 2004 Buma/Stemra Sound of Silence Award• 2004 TMF Award Belgium: Best International DJ• 2004 World Music Award: World's best selling Dutch artist• 2004 Ibiza DJ Award: Best International DJ Trance• 2004 TMF Award Holland: Best National DJ• 2004 TMF Award Holland: Best Dance Act National• 2004 WMC Awards Miami: Best International DJ• 2004 DJUK awards: best DJ• 2005 3 FM Award: Best Dance Artist• 2005 Release Dance Award: Best Trance/Progressive artist• 2005 Release Dance Award: Best International DJ• 2005 TMF Belgium: Best International DJ• 2005 Dance Music Award Germany: Best Trance Artist• 2005 WMC Awards Miami: Best Producer• 2005 WMC Awards Miami: Best Hi-NRG / Euro track• 2005 WMC Awards Miami: The Ortofon Best European DJ 2004• 2005 WMC Awards Miami: Best Producer 2004• 2005 TMF Award Holland: Best Dance National• 2005 TMF Award Holland: Radio 538 single of the year• 2005 TMF Award Holland: Lifetime Achievement• 2005 Edison Music Award: Best dance album – Just Be• 2006 TMF Awards Belgium: Award for Lifetime achievement

• 2006 TMF Awards Belgium: Best Dance• 2006 TMF Awards Belgium: Best remixer• 2006 3 FM Awards: Best Dance Artist• 2006 Canadian Golden Award (Tiësto in Concert 2 DVD)• 2007 WMC Awards Miami: Best Progressive House/Trance Track

(Dance4Life)• 2007 WMC Awards Miami: Best Ortofon Global DJ 2006• 2007 WMC Awards Miami: Best Full Length DJ Mix CD (In Search of

Sunrise 5: Los Angeles)• 2007 Radio 3FM Awards: Best Dance artist•

2008 BUMA golden harp award 2007• 2008 Dutch BUMA export award• 2008 WMC Awards Miami: Best Global DJ• 2008 WMC Awards Miami: Best Full Length DJ Mix CD (In Search of

Sunrise 6: Ibiza)• 2008 Ibiza DJ Award: Best International DJ• 2008 Best International DJ at the DJ Awards

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Nominations

• 2002 Best Progressive DJ at the DJ Awards• 2004 Best Trance DJ at the DJ Awards• 2005 Best Trance DJ at the DJ Awards

• 2006 Best Trance DJ at the DJ Awards• 2007 Best Dutch & Belgian Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2007• 2007 Best Dance at the TMF Awards• 2008 Best Electronic/Dance Album at Grammy Awards for Elements of

Life• 2008 WMC Awards Miami: Best European DJ• 2008 WMC Awards Miami: Best Producer• 2008 Beatport Music Awards: Best Trance Artist• 2008 World Music Award: Best DJ• 2008 Best Trance DJ at the DJ Awards

• 2009 WMC Awards Miami: Best Progressive House/Trance Track(Imagination (Tiësto Remix))

• 2009 WMC Awards Miami: Best European DJ• 2009 WMC Awards Miami: Best Global DJ• 2009 WMC Awards Miami: Best Full Length DJ Mix CD (In Search of

Sunrise 7: Asia)• 2009 WMC Awards Miami: Best Podcast (Tiësto's Club Life)• 2009 WMC Awards Miami: Best Artist (Solo)

Bibliography :

DJ Mag Magazine www.djmag.comTiesto Official Website www.tiesto.comTiësto discography at MusicBrainzTiesto at Internet Movie Database www.imdb.comWikipedia – Internet encyclopedia http://wikipedia.orgTiesto – My space www.myspace.com

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