{"id":574013,"date":"2026-07-29T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574013\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:00:13","slug":"french-dj-kavinsky-found-dead-in-his-home-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574013\/","title":{"rendered":"French DJ Kavinsky found dead in his home in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French \u200cDJ and electropop musician Kavinsky &#8211; who performed at \u200bthe closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics &#8211; was found dead in \u200bhis home in the French capital \u2060on Tuesday evening, the Paris prosecutor&#8217;s \u200coffice \u200csaid \u200bin a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The artist, whose real name was \u2060Vincent \u200bBelorgey, was aged \u200b50.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An inquiry into the \u200ccause of death \u200bhas been opened to determine the \u2060circumstances of \u2060the \u200bdeath, as first responders found no suspicious elements at the scene,&#8221; the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>Kavinsky was the author of the 2010 &#8216;Nightcall&#8217; \u200csong, made famous by \u2060the movie Drive, featuring Ryan Gosling. He played the song \u200cat the finale of the \u200b2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French \u200cDJ and electropop musician Kavinsky &#8211; who performed at \u200bthe closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-574013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}