Jeremy Tepper , a musician, journalist and the program director of SiriusXM ’s Outlaw Country channel, has died. He was 60. Tepper passed away on Friday (June 14) from a heart attack at his home in New York City, according to a social media post by his wife, singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell.
“Lost my good friend Jeremy Tepper last night,” Steven Van Zandt , guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and founder of Underground Garage, wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “An incredibly tragic loss so young. He ran my Outlaw Country station on SiriusXM brilliantly.
It is actually quite a complicated format and he made it look easy. Our deepest love and condolences to Laura and his family and friends.” Lost my good friend Jeremy Tepper last night.
An incredibly tragic loss so young. He ran my Outlaw Country station on SiriusXM brilliantly. It is actually quite a complicated format and he made it look easy.
Our deepest love and condolences to Laura and his family and friends. pic.twitter.
com/WA8tj3kkA1 Born in 1963, the New York native graduated with a degree in journalism from NYU and served as the frontman for the band World Famous Blue Jays. During his career, Tepper founded independent country label Diesel Only Records and held A&R and marketing positions for CDuctive and eMusic.com.
He was also a journalist, having previously served as editor of The Journal of Country Music and as a country music critic for Tower Records’ Pulse! magazine. In 2004, he joined Siriu.
