DJ Tiësto

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 [l=Black Hole Recordings] with [a=Arny Bink]. In 1998, Tijs met producer [a=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 [l=Mixmag] magazine in a poll voted by the fans, also considered as "God of Trance" by several fanzines. In 2001, Tijs founded an another label called [l=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 [m=39593].
After the [m=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 [l=Musical Freedom (2)] (known as [l=Musical Freedom Records] nowdays).