Piet van Wyk de Vries is a South African music writer and performer, born in Pretoria in 1972. He started in the music industry by fronting the band "Flying Circus", but soon changed directions by focusing more on music production and studio design. This culminated in 2000 when he designed and built what was at the time the largest digital studio in Africa for Sting Music in Johannesburg. He used this Pro Tools based studio to produce the first Afrikaans album by the artist Dozi, entitled "Op Aanvraag", which has since become one of the most successful albums of that genre of all time. This album also launched the career of
                       songwriter Stef Kruger.