Avicii, the Swedish electronic dance music producer and D.J. who achieved pop-star levels of prominence has died aged 28 on holiday in Oman. He earned an estimated $19 million a year and his songs have been streamed more than a billion times on Spotify.
Born 8 September 1989 with an actress mother, he had admitted to excessive drinking which led to acute pancreatitis and he had his appendix and gallbladder removed in 2014. He found the spotlight difficult and stopped doing live shows to return to the studio in 2016.
He had a restless Sun and Mars in Virgo and Sagittarius Moon; and was part of the triple conjunction generation with Uranus, Saturn Neptune conjunct in Capricorn opposition Jupiter in Cancer square Mercury in Libra – restless, highly-strung, lucky and inspired but also liable to stress burnout from Uranus Neptune tied into a focal point Mercury. (See Zayn Malik below). Avicii’s Sun was trine Neptune, sextile Pluto with Pluto trine Jupiter – confident, controlling, fairly locked down in temperament.
Success comes at a price.
His track “Seek Bromance” is a pretty stunning Electro record.
I’m older, and current EDM really isn’t my thing in general, but really, he was one of those people whose talent just couldn’t be denied. People such as Nile Rogers, who has worked with everybody since the 1970’s, saw that too.
I also have two 1989 Capricorn Uranus/Neptune/Saturn people in my family. Another is just a couple of days younger than Tim was. They’ve had ups and downs, but one saving grace with them is there strong culture of staying out of alcohol and drugs among their peers growing up. I noticed that, because there was such a stark difference to my generation.