Holger Czukay
Holger Schüring (24 March 1938 – 5 September 2017), known professionally as Holger Czukay (/ˈʃʊkaɪ/), was a German musician best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described as "successfully bridg[ing] the gap between pop and the avant-garde", Czukay was also notable for having created early important examples of ambient music, for having explored "world music" well before the term was coined, and for having been a pioneer of sampling.
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Czukay in 1973 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Holger Schüring |
| Born | 24 March 1938 Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland) |
| Died | 5 September 2017 (aged 79) Weilerswist, Germany |
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| Instrument(s) | Bass, guitar, keyboards, percussion, drums, vocals, French horn |
| Years active | 1968–2017 |
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| Spouse(s) | Ursula Schüring (m. 1989) |
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