Timeline Thursday 31 July 1975

Events on Thursday 31 July 1975 2

• 1975 – present Kavinsky French Electronic Musician French electronic musician and synthwave pioneer, born Vincent Belorgey, whose track Nightcall became a defining piece of 2010s popular culture after it was featured in the opening credits of Nicolas Winding Refn's film Drive (2011). He created the fictional persona of Kavinsky — a mysterious driver who crashed his Ferrari Testarossa in 1986, died, and returned as a zombie twenty years later to make electronic music. Alongside Daft Punk and Justice, he was one of the key figures of the French electronic music scene.
• 1975 Kavinsky born in Seine-Saint-Denis Born Vincent Pierre Claude Belorgey in Seine-Saint-Denis, the working-class departement northeast of Paris. Learned piano at a local youth centre, where his first instruments were a melodica, a Casio synthesiser and a Roland TR-808 drum machine.