Tony De Vit, (b. Kidderminster, England on September 12, 1957) was a hard house/hard dance DJ. He started DJing at the Nightingale in Birmingham. De Vit was HIV-positive, and his health deteriorated. On July 2 1998 he died due to bronchial pneumonia and bone-marrow failure. There are very few DJ's that can lay claim to the fact that they were there in the beginning of the creation of dance music as we know it today, and, there are even fewer individuals