Avicii death at 28 a coming-of-age

NEW YORK - Rock 'n' roll had Buddy Holly, the psychedelic era had Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin and grunge had Kurt Cobain. Now electronic dance music has Avicii.

The Swedish DJ's death on Friday at age 28 marks a symbolic coming-of-age for a genre that remains resolutely youthful, with the first electronic superstar to die near his prime.

Avicii, the stage name of Tim Bergling, was not a first-out-the-door pioneer of electronic dance music - or EDM - a scene that has exploded since the turn of the century and last year was worth $7.4 billion, according to a study by the industry's International Music Summit in Ibiza.