{"id":69452,"date":"2026-07-29T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/kavinsky-dies-at-50-pitchfork\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:52:40","slug":"kavinsky-dies-at-50-pitchfork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/kavinsky-dies-at-50-pitchfork\/","title":{"rendered":"Kavinsky Dies at 50 | Pitchfork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kavinsky, the French producer and DJ born Vincent \u200cBelorgey, has died at his home in Paris of a suspected stroke, the French TV station BFM and newspaper <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/faits-divers\/le-dj-kavinsky-retrouve-mort-a-son-domicile-a-paris-20260729\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/faits-divers\/le-dj-kavinsky-retrouve-mort-a-son-domicile-a-paris-20260729&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/faits-divers\/le-dj-kavinsky-retrouve-mort-a-son-domicile-a-paris-20260729\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le \u200cFigaro<\/a> reported today (July 29). The Paris prosecutors\u2019 office said it had opened an investigation and found \u201cno suspicious elements\u201d at the scene. Belorgey had reportedly been complaining of headaches in recent days.\u00a0He was 50 years old.<\/p>\n<p>After launching his career in the early 2000s opening for Daft Punk, Kavinsky rose to prominence as part of the second wave of French touch. He broke out when \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/12159-nightcall\/\">Nightcall<\/a>\u201d featured on the soundtrack of Nicolas Winding Refn\u2019s stylized, music-forward 2010 thriller <em>Drive<\/em>. He subsequently performed the track with Phoenix and the Belgian singer Ang\u00e8le at the Paris 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/kavinsky-dies-at-50\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kavinsky, the French producer and DJ born Vincent \u200cBelorgey, has died at his home in Paris of a suspected stroke, the French TV station&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}