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| Feb 22, 2021

French electronic duo Daft Punk split up after 28 years

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The surprise announcement of Daft Punk’s split on Monday (February 22) sent shockwaves throughout the music world. (Photo: Billboard.com)

French electronic music duo Daft Punk announced that the pair of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter are going their separate ways on Monday (February 22).

The split, confirmed by Daft Punk publicist Katheryn Frazier, comes just 28 years after taking the music scene by storm in 1993 Paris.

In customary fashion, Daft Punk stayed true to its legendary style with an eight-minute video titled Epilogue in which one of the duo’s members walks off into the distance before ‘exploding’.

The genre-bending, multi-Grammy-award-winning musicians—who made hundreds of public appearances dressed as robots—are known for 1997 dance hits Around the World and Da Funk.

The duo cemented themselves as global superstars with the highly successful 2001 album Discovery and remerged with an avid cult-like following due to their indelible imprint on mainstream imagination.

Daft Punk pushed the envelope even further with the Alive 2007 LP, which was performed live and later snagged them a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album in 2009.

Five years later, on the eve of an impressive 20-year career, Daft Punk returned with Random Access Memories, a hugely successful and critically acclaimed album that provided the French duo with their first Billboard Hot 100 single, Get Lucky, featuring Pharrell Williams.

The album did exceedingly well at the 2014 Grammy Awards, copping three top prizes including Album of the Year.

See the fitting farewell of Daft Punk in their Epilogue video below:

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