Robin Kaye, a longtime music supervisor with American Idol, and her husband, Thomas Deluca, were found shot to death Monday in their home in the Encino area of Los Angeles, sources have confirmed to Deadline.
Los Angeles police told Deadline that officers were called to the home on White Oak Place at about 2:30 PM Monday on a welfare check after the couple had not been seen for several days. Officers found both with fatal gunshot wounds to the head and they were pronounced dead at the scene.
No motive has been determined, an LAPD spokesperson said. Detectives from the LAPD’s Valley Bureau Homicide Division are investigating the deaths.
According to her IMDB page, Kaye had worked on 288 episodes of American Idol as music supervisor from 2002 to 2023. Her other television credits as Music Supervisor included the NAACP Image Awards, Miss USA, Miss Universe, Lip Sync Battle, Hollywood Game Night, Q’Viva , The Dance Scene, Dance Your Ass Off, Your Chance To Dance, Adventures of Power and Crashed, among many others.
She appeared in a 2019 episode of The Pop Disciple Podcast. According to her bio on the website, Kaye began her career working for Waylon Jennings in Nashville, eventually joining MTM Records as Vice President of Artist Development. After two years as an artist manager at Sound Management in Chicago, she moved to Los Angeles and following a brief stint in music publishing, joined the Film & TV Licensing department at Universal Records. From there she went on to PolyGram Records, where she ran the combined Film & TV Division until its sale to Universal. In 2000, she launched her own company SyncroniCity, initially representing labels and artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Kenny Loggins, Lang Lang, Donnie Osmond and Steven Bishop. The company then segued to focusing strictly on music supervision for music intensive shows, such as American Idol.
She also served as Vice President of the Guild of Music Supervisors.
TMZ first reported news of Kaye and Deluca’s deaths.
