Tranceport dj tiesto biography

Tijs Michiel Verwest, alias DJ Tiësto, was born on the 17th of January 1969 in Breda (Holland). He started spinning records when he was 14 years old.

A year later he had bought his own mobile and played at small student parties. The next step was a Dutch club called 'De Lente'. There, Tiësto entertained the crowd with disco, hip hop and early housemusic.

When he was 21 years old, he started playing in 'The Spock', where only housemusic was played every thursday-, friday- and saturdaynight, and at the age of 22 he also mixed for 'Channel X', an illegal radio station that broadcasted house music 24 hours a day and that was very popular especially in Holland and Belgium.

Tiësto also played in a famous afterclub in Amsterdam that year, called the 'Voodoo Club'.

Before his 24th birthday, he had only played club music, but the years following to it, Tijs