Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording Non-Classical - This Could Be You!

I love the story from Tijs Michiel Verwest and how his first ever Grammy ever came about!

Like all of us, he loves the song “All of Me” by John Legend, and decided to give the song what he calls, the Tiesto’s Birthday Treatment Remix.  He put the remix up on his YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPk3RMMXAfLhMJPFpQhye9g) in January, 2014 which got the attention of John Legend.  

Tijs aka Tiesto

Mr. Legend contacted the DJ (he is now a performing artist by the name Tiesto) and asked if the remix could officially be released on the Colombia Records label, which it was, and a year later, he has a Grammy for Best Remixed Recording Non-Classical.

It helps that Tijs has 1.6 Million subscribers on YouTube, and it also helps that he is one of the top DJs from Breda, Netherlands and has been rated DJ Magazine’s top 100 DJs from 2002 to 2004 but how did he get there?!

In 1997 he founded the label Black Hole Recordings with Arny Bink where he released the Magik and In Search of Sunrise CD series.  Tiesto met producer Dennis Waakop Reijers in 1998, and the two have worked together exclusively since then.  His 2000 remix of Delerium’s “Silence” featuring Sarah McLachlan exposed him to more mainstream audiences. 

In 2001 he released his first solo album In My Memory, the title track of an original song written by and featuring Nicola Hitchcock, and had several hit songs  which launched his career.

In 2004 he performed live at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies in Anthens and was noted as being the first DJ to play live on stage at the Olympics.

To all Remixers, producers, singers, players of instruments, don’t give up on your dreams and know that you never know when or where your ‘big break’ will come, just know that it will!