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Pieter-Dirk Uys in Melkbosstrand, Western Cape.
Pieter-Dirk Uys in Melkbosstrand, Western Cape.

Pieter-Dirk Uys

The Echo of a Noise is the story of a life well lived – a boy from Pinelands who grew up in a fractured society but was blessed with parents who brought music and love into the family.

A boy who was stricken by the disease to please from an early age, overshadowed by church, school and a very strict father, and yet finding inspiration and excitement through his fantasies and imagination.

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