Robin Kaye, who labored as a music supervisor on American Idol for 15 seasons, and her husband Thomas Deluca had been discovered lifeless of their Los Angeles house on Monday (July 14), based on reviews from Deadline and TMZ.
Kaye and Deluca had been reportedly discovered lifeless with obvious gunshot wounds. The reviews state that authorities found the our bodies whereas doing a welfare verify on the family Monday (July 14).
TMZ additionally claims that police entered Kaye’s home by smashing a window after recognizing blood on the entrance. 4 days prior, police had been known as to the identical residence to take a look at reviews of an unidentified suspect that neighbors had seen attempting to achieve entry, based on the outlet.
Billboard has reached out to American Idol and the Los Angeles Police Division for remark.
In accordance with her IMDb page, Kaye had expertise in a number of areas of the music trade earlier than she made the leap to music supervision. After working for Waylon Jennings in Nashville and becoming a member of MTM Information as vp of artist growth and broadcast media, she spent a while in Chicago earlier than shifting to L.A.
Kaye additionally labored within the movie and TV licensing division at MCA-Common Information and oversaw music licensing for PolyGram Information. In 2000, she based her personal firm, SyncroniCity, which handles music supervision for exhibits similar to Idol. The opposite applications on Kaye’s resume are Lip Sync Battle, Hollywood Recreation Night time, NAACP Picture Awards, The Singing Bee, Miss USA, Miss Universe, American Inventor, Q’Viva , The Dance Scene, Dance Your Ass Off, Your Likelihood To Dance, Adventures of Energy and Crashed.
That includes judges Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood and Lionel Richie, Idol wrapped its twenty third season in Could. The present first premiered in 2002, operating for 15 seasons earlier than it went on hiatus in 2016.
The collection was resurrected in 2018 with Bryan, Richie and Katy Perry — who has since been changed by Underwood — on board.