Music has always been the biggest passion in Tiësto's life and he felt the need to share that passion with other people. Between 1985 and 1993 he performed as a resident at several clubs in Holland and in these years he developed an important foundation. Together with Arny Bink he founded the record company Black Hole Recordings which provides the world with all sorts of quality dance music.
On Black Hole Tiësto has released the Magik and In Search Of Sunrise mixcompilation series, and most recent Nyana. His remix of 'Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan - Silence' was the first house track ever broadcasted on daytime radio in North America and was eight weeks in the U.K. top 10 chart.
In 2001 Tiësto started a new sublabel, Magik Muzik, which is providing the world with Tiësto's finest productions and his favourite tracks. The first releases were the 2001 anthem 'Flight 643' and his long-awaited artist album, 'In My Memory'. The label also features massive anthems from Umek, Mark Norman and Mojado. After winning almost every dance related award in 2002 a crown was put on his career by being voted the number 1 DJ in the world in DJ Magazine's Top 100.
The year 2003 has been a year filled with highlights. Tiësto is also now officially the first DJ in the world ever to sell out a stadium-event with a solo performance for over 25.000 people. Like Nyana, the Tiësto in concert DVD has reached the gold status in Tiësto's native country, same for the hit single 'Traffic' which is the first instrumental track to reach the number 1 chart position in 23 years. In 2003 Tiësto has won 3 TMF-Awards (Holland & Belgium), 2 Dutch DJ Awards, 1 MTV Europe Award, and again was number 1 in DJ Magazine's Top 100, a first for a DJ to get this spot twice in a row!
The beginning of 2004 started out great for Tiësto with a tour through Asia, South-America and winning 2 Dutch TMF-Awards for 'Best Dance Act' and 'Best DJ'. His new single 'Love Comes Again' with BT was yet again a big chartbuster all over Europe and the global reviews for his artist album entitled 'Just Be' were extremely positive. It took 'Just Be' one week to conquer the number 1 position in the National Album Charts and less than two months to achieve the gold status in The Netherlands.
The second half of 2004 features the highlight in the career of Tiësto so far. During the 'Parade Of The Athletes' at the official Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens, Tiësto played live for over 70.000 people inside the stadium and for a crowd of billions from all over the world watching the event on television.
In addition to this huge event, the album 'Parade of the athletes' is released worldwide in October 2004, which contains the music from Tiësto's set at the Opening Ceremony. Simultaneously, the title song of his 'Just Be' artist album is climbing the lists and is heard on dancefloors everywhere.
On October 28th,Tiësto once again comes out on top in DJ Magazine's TOP 100 list, the only list voted for by the public worldwide. Winning it for the third time in a row clearly shows that at this point Tiësto is the world's superstar DJ. Once again he sold out 2 Tiësto In Concert events in Holland and the first international one in Belgium, finishing the year 2004 with a tour through South-America and North-America with a special New Years Eve party in Los Angeles.
The expectations for 2005 are high. The DVD of Tiësto's 2004 concerts is released worldwide early 2005 and already tops various DVD-charts. Also the long awaited In Search Of Sunrise 4 mix album has been released. You can also expect a number of innovating and unique performances throughout Europe, starting with Tiësto at Disney, the performance in the Walt Disney Studios where Tiësto will be the first DJ ever to play in this magikal setting.
