Boris Blank

Swiss-born musician Boris Blank is an electronic-based composer, arranger, and producer best known as founder of the electropop group Yello. Born in Bern, Switzerland in 1952, Blank was intrigued with music from a young age. However, never learning how to formally read music, Blank instead became obsessed with the creative possibilities of recording, including making tape loops out of found sounds and manipulating samples of music. Briefly employed as a truck driver, by his twenties he had formed the electronic pop trio Yello along with musician Carlos Perón and conceptual art...