New Delhi, July 29 -- PARIS - Vincent Belorgey, known professionally as Kavinsky, was found dead Tuesday evening at his Paris apartment. He was 50 years old and would have turned 51 on Friday.

The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed it had opened an inquiry, according to Deadline. No cause of death was given, no suspects identified. Emergency services responded to his home that evening; the full account of what investigators found there has not been released.

The loss arrived in two registers. For the electronic music industry, it was immediate and personal, a gap in a generation of French producers who had quietly built a global audience over two decades without ever quite submitting to its demands. For the broader public, it carried t...