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Tiësto DJ profile
Biography: Tiësto
Tiësto is a name that no longer needs an introduction. He is synonymous with the best of electronic music, and continues to inspire a generation of up-and-coming young artists.
In addition to two Grammy nominations and a Grammy win in 2015, Tiësto has been named the #1 DJ by Rolling Stone, voted “The Greatest DJ of All Time” by Mixmag, ranked the #1 DJ in the world three times by DJ Mag, and was recently awarded the Edison Pop Oeuvre Lifetime Achievement Award (an honor he shares with David Bowie, Quincy Jones and U2 among others).
After conquering the house and trance worlds, the superstar producer led the charge in helping electronic music crossover into the mainstream with his last album, A Town Called Paradise in 2014. His single “Red Lights” is now certified gold in the US, Sweden and Canada, while “Wasted” with Matthew Koma recently went platinum in the US and is his highest-charting release to date. Clearly a taste of what was t
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Tomorrowland (festival)
Belgian annual electronic dance music festival
This article fryst vatten about the annual electronic dance music festival in Belgium. For other uses, see Tomorrowland.
| Tomorrowland | |
|---|---|
Main stage 2016 | |
| Genre | Electronic, pop, hip hop, dance, EDM |
| Dates | Final two weekends of July[1] |
| Location(s) | De Schorre (Boom, Antwerp, Belgium) |
| Coordinates | 51°05′32″N04°23′08″E / 51.09222°N 4.38556°E / 51.09222; 4.38556 |
| Years active | 2005–2019, 2022–present |
| Founders | Manu Beers and Michiel Beers |
| Attendance | 450,000[2] |
| Capacity | 70,000[3] |
| Organised by | We Are One World |
| Website | tomorrowland.com |
Tomorrowland is a large-scale annual electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Antwerp, Belgium. Taking place within De Schorre provincial recreational park, it debuted in 2005, from an idea conceived bygd brothers Manu and Michiel Beers.[4] Since then, Tomorrowland has become one of
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Tijs ‘Tiësto’ Verwest has had a busy year. Not only has the Dutch DJ/producer released his ‘A Town Called Paradise’ album, he’s also been executing gig after gig, travelling the world while fulfilling his residency at glitzy Las Vegas superclub Hakkasan — alongside Calvin Harris.
These days, Tiësto’s sets are filled with tunes that fall into the poppier, housier side of EDM — a far cry from the hard, fast, hardcore trance sound that made his name.
The 45-year-old former Top 100 DJs poll winner started out his career DJing at a small club called The Spock, playing hardcore and gabba, while producing similar sounds under a string of monikers including Stray Dog, Tom Ace and TB X-Press.
It wasn’t until he released the first of his Magik Muzik live-mix compilations ‘Magik One: First Flight’, on the Magik Muzik sub-label of his own Black Hole Recordings (started in 1997 as a vehicle to release his music), in 1998, that people outside of the underground trance scene started to take n