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French electronic music duo Daft Punk split up after 28 years
24 Feb 2021
Gulf Today Report
Iconic French electronic music duo Daft Punk announced they are calling it quits after almost three decades.
The pair behind some of the biggest dance and pop hits of all time broke the news with an enigmatic eight-minute video titled “Epilogue” on their YouTube channel, reports The Independent.
The clip is an excerpt from their 2006 science-fiction film “Electroma” and features the duo bidding adieu to each other in their quintessential robot costumes, with one of them self-destructing.
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Pitchfork reports that their long-time publicist Kathryn Frazier confirmed the news of the split, with no reason being given.
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Daft Punk is best known for their electronic beats and robot outfits
The duo became global superstars with the release of their singles “Around the World,” “One More Time” and “Get Lucky”
Daft Punk announced its disbandment on Monday
Daft Punk is best known for its catchy electronic music and unusual way of releasing quality music. With the duo s recent disbandment, we look at their road to stardom and the net worths they ve established over their 28-year-long career.
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The groundbreaking French duo Daft Punk stunned the music world Monday morning by announcing their breakup via an elaborate video. The announcement was all the more surprisingly because the has been largely dormant since their 2013 album, “Random Access Memories,” won the Grammy for album of the year, and largely stopped performing live after their triumphant 2007 world tour. The two songs they recorded with the Weeknd on his 2016 “Starboy” album may be their last high-profile releases as Daft Punk.
However, around 15 years ago it seemed like the group might be on its last legs: Their 2005 album, “Human After All,” was considered a flop, receiving lukewarm reviews and selling barely 10% as many copies as its 2001 predecessor, “Discovery.” Plans for a long-discussed tour were shelved until Coachella came calling with a six-fig
When you think about it,
Daft Punk were kind of an unlikely success story.
Who’d have thought that two French guys dressed up as robots, playing a retro-futuristic style of electro funk, would become one of the biggest acts in the world. But it happened.
Grammy-winning electronic music duo Daft Punk announced they are breaking up after 28 years.
Across four incredible albums, a handful of unforgettable tour spectaculars and amongst a whole lot of intrigue, Daft Punk became true icons of modern music.
They married the worlds of house, funk, rock, hip hop and pop in weird and wonderful ways, and their songs still get a dancefloor pumping like nothing else.