Jeremy Evan Tepper (November 18, 1963 – June 14, 2024) was an American musician, journalist, and record industry executive. The former frontman of the band World Famous Blue Jays, he founded the record label
Diesel Only Records in 1990, along with Jay Sherman-Godfrey and Albert Caiati. Along with Caiati, Tepper subsequently became the "head honcho" of Diesel Only. He was also the
managing editor
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United States
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of the magazine ''
Vending Times
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'' prior to 1992, and later became the publisher and editor-in-chief of the
jukebox
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industry
trade journal
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''Street Beat''.
Prior to becoming format manager for
Sirius Satellite Radio
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Li ...
's
Outlaw Country channel in 2004, he had also worked for CDuctive and
eMusic.com, and had served as the editor of the ''Journal of Country Music'' and as a country music critic for ''
Pulse!''.
Personal life
Tepper was born in
Poughkeepsie, New York
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. He graduated from
New York University
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. His father, Noel Tepper, was a lawyer in
Poughkeepsie
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,
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
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* ...
, and his mother, Elly Tepper, was a third-grade teacher at Keolu Elementary School in
Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii
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. In 1997, he married
Laura Cantrell.
[ With Cantrell, he had a daughter named Bella.]
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1963 births
2024 deaths
New York University alumni
Country musicians from New York (state)
American magazine editors
American music industry executives
American music critics