Kavinsky is a zombie character made by Vincent Belorgey—a French House musician and actor who gained notoriety after one of his tracks, “Nightcall” was featured in the 2011 Ryan Gosling film, Drive.

Vincent described his character’s history in a 2011 interview with Big Stereo:

There is a zombie and he is cruising in his Testarossa, which had a car accident in 1986. He was killed at this time and they are just cruising together, like Michael and KITT from Knight Rider. And actually it’s just a big mix from 10,000 TV shows and movies that I used to watch when I was young. I just took every good part and put it into one concept.