Released 07/02/98

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Press Statement

Tony De Vit

Dance music DJ/producer and re-mixer Tony De Vit has died this morning ( Thursday July 2^nd ) at Birmingham’s Heartland’s Hospital of bone-marrow failure and bronchial pneumonia.

He died at 8:30 AM this morning, after having been rushed into hospital days earlier. Tony had suffered a relapse after collapsing with exhaustion whilst on holiday in Miami recently. At the time Doctors diagnosed him as suffering from severe exhaustion and fatigue, following an acute case of food poisoning. After carrying out extensive tests in the last few day’s Doctors later learnt that his illness was in fact bronchial pneumonia and his condition worsened due to bone-marrow failure.

Tony passed away peacefully with his long time friend and personal assistant Andrew Bird at his bedside. Tony’s spokesman Gerald Franklin said: "We are all just completely devastated, we thought Tony was on the mend after his recent collapse, he seemed to be making good progress, but four day’s ago he suffered a relapse and was taken into hospital. The doctors realized that his illness was far more serious and conducted further tests which revealed the bronchial pneumonia.

ICU had scheduled Tony's first US to start on the very day of his death. We are shocked and saddened by his death. It is unfortuanate that America was not able to see this talented DJ perform.

Biography Below...

Tony De Vit - UK
DJ / Producer / Remixer

Tony de Vit began DJ-ing at the tender age of 17. In the last four years Tony’s reputation has propelled itself to critical acclaim within clubland and the record buying public. He has a string of awards and nomination to his name including the recent 1998 DJ magazine award where he was ranked fifth best DJ in the world ! He was also named Mixmag’s second best DJ of the year 1996 and M8 magazine’s "Best DJ of the year 1996". He was also nominated "Best New DJ" in UK's MUZIK magazine "Saints and Sinners" awards, "Dance DJ of the year" ( Molson BEDA Awards ) and Best DJ (International Music Awards). Together with his recording partner Simon Parkes they are jointly known as V2. They were selected by Music Week as the top remixers of 1996, their remix of Louise’s single "Naked" earned Music Week’s vote as the "ground breaking remix of 1996". Tony also has his own sate-of-the-art studio called V2 studios and has two UK Top 40 successes with "Burning Up" and "To the Limit". A collection of Tony’s own remixes have been released as an album project mixed by himself naturally, which reached # 2 in the dance album charts.

Tony plays almost every night of the week ! Regularly guesting at venues such as Ministry of Sound, Gatecrasher, Cream and Chuff Chuff. He is also resident at Trade in London. He has played across the world in place as far as Hong Kong, South Africa, Russia, Canada, Ibiza and most recently Tokyo were he also mixed his compilation"Boxed live in Tokyo". This lastest "TRADE"compilation is available in the US on Priority Records / Egil Music.

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