Valiant Swart (born Pierre Nolte, 26 November 1965), is a South African musician, Afrikaans folk rock singer-songwriter, and actor from Wellington.
Career
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.
Song vir Katryn
He is most famous for his male lead role as “Jinx” in the Afrikaans romantic drama series “Song vir Katryn”, which first aired in 2003 and 2004. His character Jinx, also known as “Dr. Johan Bruwer”, is a doctor by day and musician by night.
He played alongside lead actress Therese Benade, who portrayed Katryn, a mysterious woman with a complicated and dark past.
A lot of Swart’s original songs feature in the hit series, and he released an album with the same name “Song vir Katryn” in 2003.
He later co-released the album “@Jinx” in 2004 with Mel Botes, who also played the character “Slab” in Song vir Katryn.
