Scott Mitchell Putesky, known as Daisy Berkowitz as a founding member of the South Florida goth-rock band Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, died Sunday after a long battle with colon cancer.

The former Fort Lauderdale, Fla., resident was 49. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer in 2013 and died in hospice care in Boca Raton, where his parents live.

Known around the world by the name of its singer, Marilyn Manson, the band started in 1989 as the invention of Putesky and Boca Raton resident Brian Warner.

The band found national prominence beginning with its 1994 debut album, “Portrait of an American Family,” and the 1995 EP “Smells Like Children.”

While it became famous for its theatrical excesses, the band prospered in large part because of the musical credibility provided by the Putesky’s guitar work on early Manson songs such as “Lunchbox,” “Dope Hat” and its hit cover of the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).”