Keith Flint, the singer and iconic frontman of British rave scene icons The Prodigy, has died at the age of 49, according to the the electronic pop group.
Keith Flint, the singer and iconic frontman of British rave scene icons The Prodigy, has died at the age of 49, according to the the electronic pop group. Video provided by AFP Newslook
Prodigy co-founder Liam Howlett said in an Instagram post that Flint killed himself over the weekend.
“I’m shell shocked … confused and heart broken,” he wrote.
Police confirmed that the body of a 49-year-old man had been found at a home in Brook Hill, northeast of London. They said the death was being treated as non-suspicious and a file would be sent to the coroner — standard practice in cases of violent or unexplained deaths.
Flint was the stage persona of the band, whose 1990s hits “Firestarter” and “Breathe” were an incendiary fusion of techno, breakbeat and acid house music.
The Prodigy sold 30 million records, helping to take rave music from an insular community of party-goers to an international audience. They had seven No. 1 albums in Britain, most recently with “No Tourists” in 2018.
Flint was renowned for his manic stage energy and distinctive look: black eyeliner and hair spiked into two horns.
born Keith Charles Flint on Sept. 17, 1969 in east London, he moved to east of the city to Braintree, Essex as a child, where he met Howlett at a nightclub.