Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, the core and founding member of Choir of Younger Believers, has died at age 39. The artist’s U.S. label, Ghostly Worldwide, confirmed the information Thursday (Jan. 5) and revealed that after battling “a brief interval of sickness,” the musician died simply earlier than New 12 months’s Eve.
Makrigiannis fashioned Choir of Younger Believers in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the assistance of his pals and fellow musicians. By 2007, the group had launched its first EP, Burn the Flag, and a 12 months later, the debut album This Is for the White in Your Eyes. The album’s lead single, “Hole Speak,” gained traction all through Denmark on radio as a consequence of its sync on opening and shutting credit of the Danish–Swedish police tv sequence The Bridge.
Following a efficiency on the 2009 South by Southwest music pageant, Choir of Younger Believers had been signed to Ghostly Worldwide, their U.S. label. The label launched This Is for the White in Your Eyes in North America on Aug. 18, 2009.
Choir of Younger Believers’ most up-to-date album, Holy Smoke, got here out on Nov. 4.
“Jannis was a mild, variety soul, at all times appreciative of our group serving to him to share his artwork with the world. He at all times put artwork first in his course of, and because of this, Jannis was typically far forward of the cultural curve,” Ghostly Worldwide wrote in regards to the musician in its assertion. “His music solely appears to get higher with time.”
