Aérea Negrot, the Venezuelan-born, Berlin-based singer and digital musician who often collaborated with Hercules & Love Affair, has died. Negrot’s label, BPitch Management, introduced the information earlier this month in a submit on social media. “Her mild, music and exquisite uplifting voice, her one among a sort creative method and efficiency have touched each soul they’ve ever encountered,” the label wrote. “A classically-trained ballet dancer, singer, songwriter and an uncompromising DJ, there by no means was a stage she didn’t make her personal. We’re ceaselessly grateful to have had the honour to cross our path with such a giving and gifted human and artist.” Negrot was 43.

Aérea Negrot was born in Caracas in 1980 and raised by a household {of professional} dancers. She was classically educated in ballet like her mother and father and grandmother, however refocused on nightclub performances after sustaining a knee harm. As a 16-year-old, she would placed on lip-synching exhibits, typically deciphering songs by Erykah Badu. Round that point, she shaped the group La Familia Felíz with Fata Kiefer and Milton Fermat, who had a small worldwide hit with their monitor “La Disco.”

Negrot, whose actual title was Danielle Gallegos, first carried out below her stage title in Amsterdam when she was 17. “Aérea” referred to flying, as she informed Remezcla in a 2016 interview. She apparently adopted the title after having a tryst with a flight attendant—who booted Negrot out of their residence. Negrot relocated to Berlin in 2004.

Negrot launched her debut album, Arabxilla, in 2011, although she has been an lively performer and DJ because the late Nineties. In 2005, Negrot met Hercules & Love Affair’s Andy Butler at an Antony and the Johnsons live performance in Berlin, sparking a years-long collaborative relationship with Butler and his challenge. Roughly a yr after assembly Butler, Negrot joined the group’s touring lineup.

Negrot featured prominently on Hercules & Love Affair’s 2011 sophomore LP, Blue Songs, and has collaborated with quite a lot of artists within the ensuing years, together with Tobias., Miguel Toro, Billie Ray Martin, Massimiliano Pagliara, System of Survival, and extra.

In her 2016 interview with Remezcla, Negrot mirrored on her relationship with performing. “Performing was for me all the time an extension of that keenness and ambition I received from my household,” she mentioned. “And was fairly good at it, even earlier than I might stroll.”