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Artist Biography For Valiant Swart

Valiant Swart Is An Artist From South Africa. He Sings Mostly In Afrikaans. Valiant Swart Born Pierre Nolte 25 November 1965 Is A South African Musician Afrikaans Folk Rock Singer-Songwriter And Actor From Wellington. Born In Wellington He Resided In Stellenbosch. In 1977 At 11 Years Old Valiant Was Given A Guitar By His Father And Taught Himself To Play Songs From Artists Like George Baker And Joe Dolan. Two Years Later He Owned His First Electric Guitar. He Writes And Sings In Both English And Afrikaans. The Work That Was Begun By Artists Like Anton Goosen And Later Koos Kombuis Was Continued By Swart. He Has Released A Great Number Of Albums Debuting In 1996 With The Album Die Mystic Boer. In 2014 He Released A Collaboration With The South African Rapper Jack Parow Called Tema Van Jou Lied. Sonvanger
He Is Most Famous For His Song "Sonvanger" Meaning Sun Catcher From His 2002 Album Maanhare. He Wrote The Song After The Suicide Of A Young Afrikaans Musician From Stellenbosch. Swart Wrote It With The Musician's Mother In Mind Longing For Her Lost Son. He Adds In An Interview "The Song Has Since Taken On A Life Of Its Own It Seems To Have Brought Comfort To A Lot Of Bereaved People Which To Be Honest Makes Me Feel Real Good." The Song Has Been Covered Multiple Times Notably By Corlea Botha Jurie Els Laurika Rauch Karen Zoid Theuns Jordaan And Refentse.

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