“EVERY modern musician owes something to this man's vision,” the Cure's Lol Tolhurst tweeted.
FILE - In this May 19, 2004 file photo, the German band "Kraftwerk" perform in Berne, Switzerland, with Florian Schneider-Esleben at right. , record label Sony said Wednesday May 6, 2020. He was 73. BERLIN -- Florian Schneider-Esleben, who helped pioneer electronic music as the co-founder of Kraftwerk and influenced genres ranging from disco to synth pop, has died at age 73.announced that Schneider-Esleben had been suffering from cancer, German news agency dpa reported.
They rarely spoke to reporters and their individual names were largely unknown to the general public, but few groups were as important in shaping the sounds of popular music over the past half century.
Kraftwerk albums included the breakthrough release “Autobahn,” “Radio-Activity,” “Trans-Europe Express,” “The Man-Machine” and “Tour de France.” The German group won a Grammy award for lifetime achievement in 2014, when it was praised for creating some of the most “influential work in our musical history.”
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