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Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider-Esleben dies aged 73

Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider-Esleben dies aged 73 | iNFOnews.ca
FILE - In this Monday, July 4, 2005 file photo, members of German band Kraftwerk perform on the Miles Davis Hall stage during the 39th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, with Florian Schneider-Esleben at right. Florian Schneider-Esleben, a co-founder of German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, has died, record label Sony said Wednesday May 6, 2020. He was 73. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

BERLIN – Florian Schneider-Esleben, a co-founder of German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, has died, record label Sony said Wednesday. He was 73.

Citing fellow group founder Ralf Huetter, Sony said that Schneider-Esleben had been suffering from cancer, German news agency dpa reported.

Schneider-Esleben and Huetter started working together in 1968. In 1970, they founded the Kling-Klang-Studio in Duesseldorf and launched Kraftwerk.

Schneider-Esleben was involved in Kraftwerk albums including Autobahn, Radio-Activity, Trans-Europe Express, The Man-Machine and Tour de France. He left Kraftwerk in 2008.

Kraftwerk won a Grammy award for lifetime achievement in 2014.

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