Your name Next Your email Subscribe ← BackKavinsky, the French electro producer and DJ whose track Nightcall opened Ryan Gosling’s 2011 thriller Drive, has died at 50. Tributes poured in quickly across France, including one from President Emmanuel Macron, who called him “a source of French pride forever” in a Facebook post. Cultural minister Catherine Pégard also paid tribute on X, sharing (translated via BBC):With the sudden passing of Kavinsky, France has lost one of its most unique voices. Kavinsky’s Works: Drive‘s Nightcall and MoreKavinsky | Credits: Delrem, Public Domain, via Wikimedia CommonsKavinsky came to music late. The fictional Kavinsky is a driver who crashed his Ferrari and came back years later as an undead music producer.