French producer Kavinsky has died at the age of 50. From Nightcall to the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics, we look back at a one-of-a-kind artist in the history of electronic music. Vincent Belorgey, aka Kavinsky, was found dead on Tuesday evening at his home in Paris. He was 50. The cause of death…
Vincent Belorgey, aka Kavinsky, was found dead on Tuesday evening at his home in Paris. He was 50. The cause of death has not been disclosed.
Before he was a musician, Kavinsky was an actor, a childhood friend of Quentin Dupieux, and a film buff. In fact, it was cinema that set everything in motion. A fictional character, a ghost behind the wheel of a red Testarossa, a retro-futuristic aesthetic borrowed from 1980s soundtracks. His first EP, Teddy Boy, came out in 2006 on Record Makers. A year later, he was opening for Daft Punk on their world tour alongside SebastiAn and the Klaxons.
Then came Nightcall. Co-produced by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and carried by Lovefoxxx’s voice, the track reached another dimension thanks to Nicolas Winding Refn’s film Drive in 2011. OutRun, his debut album, climbed to number 2 in the French charts in 2013. Nine years later, Reborn confirmed him as a rare artist, recorded at Motorbass studio with Gaspard Augé of Justice and featuring collaborations with Sébastien Tellier and Cautious Clay.
In August 2024, Kavinsky performed Nightcall at the Stade de France during the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, alongside Angèle and Phoenix. It was his last big public moment. He would have turned 51 on Friday.
