Born in South Africa. Kempton High school in South Africa is where Danie’s musical career was born. After joining the school's marching band where he started on trumpet and then valve trombone, he qualified to join The South African National Marching Band representing South Africa in an international festival in Hong Kong, Taipei and Taiwan. But it was the guitar that eventually stole Danie’s heart. His Dad bought him an Ibanez 1970 Black Les Paul copy when he was only 16 and the rest, as they say, is history!
Danie’s first band, Kempton Park Junior Boereorkes, played traditional South African music. They won the South African finals three years in a row and came fourth in the National T.V. competition competing against all adult bands. After finishing school Danie got accepted into Technikon Pretoria, now Tshwane University of Technology, where he studied Music. Post Technikon he did a lot of session and theatre work, played with a band called Franklin before joining one of South Africa’s biggest selling rock bands Just Jinjer.
Over the last decade, the band has performed and toured with U2, Counting Crows, Def Leppard, INXS, Maroon 5, One Replublic, Hootie and the Blowfish, and The Strokes among many others, performing for hundreds of thousands of fans in venues all around the world from the UK to Dubai. To date they have released six critically acclaimed albums. Just Jinjer is a contemporary rock group originally from South Africa. It is one of the top selling rock bands in South African history, with over 250,000 units sold. Below is a link to a music video Danie did of a song called ' Here's to you’; both the song and Album title from Just Jinjer's third album.
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Just Jinger took a break for a year and an opportunity arose for Danie to come to Ireland. He rejoined Franklin and moved to Ireland playing sold out shows in Dublin. They supported Incubus in The Point, now The O2. After Fra