{"id":92574,"date":"2017-03-05T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92574"},"modified":"2017-03-05T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:47:00","slug":"veteran-music-executive-and-former-pop-star-tommy-page-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/05\/veteran-music-executive-and-former-pop-star-tommy-page-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran music executive and former pop star Tommy Page dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_92575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92575\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tommy_Page.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92575\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tommy_Page.jpg\" alt=\"Billboard reported that Page was found dead Friday in New York of an apparent suicide. Page started at the magazine in 2011 as associate publisher and was promoted to publisher a year later. (Photo: Wikipedia)\" width=\"484\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tommy_Page.jpg 484w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Tommy_Page-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Billboard reported that Page was found dead Friday in New York of an apparent suicide. Page started at the magazine in 2011 as associate publisher and was promoted to publisher a year later. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013Tommy Page, a former pop star whose song \u201cI&#8217;ll Be Your Everything\u201d went to No. 1 in 1990 and who later became a record company executive, publisher of Billboard magazine, a vice-president at Pandora and an executive at The Village Voice, has died. He was 46.<\/p>\n<p>Billboard reported that Page was found dead Friday in New York of an apparent suicide. Page started at the magazine in 2011 as associate publisher and was promoted to publisher a year later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all mourning the loss of our friend and colleague, Tommy Page,\u201d Billboard Entertainment Group President John Amato said. \u201cHe was a magnetic soul and a true entertainer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Page, who at the time of his death was vice-president of music partnerships at the Voice, previously led artist partnerships, branded content and events at internet radio company Pandora. He also had been an executive at Warner Bros. Records, where he helped shape the careers of Michael Buble, Alanis Morissette, Josh Groban and Green Day. He also had been a senior vice-president at Cumulus Media Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Page, a graduate of New York University&#8217;s Stern School of Business, started his music career as an artist at Sire Records and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart with \u201cI&#8217;ll Be Your Everything\u201d in April 1990. He co-wrote the song with Jordan Knight and Danny Wood, of Page&#8217;s tourmates New Kids on the Block. Page recorded nine studio albums.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo sad to hear about this,\u201d Knight wrote on Twitter with a crying emoji. \u201cMy deepest condolences to his family and loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Page appeared as himself on an episode of \u201cFull House\u201d in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his partner, Charlie, and their three children.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Voice said: \u201cOur thoughts are with his partner, their three children, and the rest of his family and close circle of friends. Tommy will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013Tommy Page, a former pop star whose song \u201cI&#8217;ll Be Your Everything\u201d went to No. 1 in 1990 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":92575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[16179,16180],"class_list":["post-92574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-tommy-page","tag-veteran-music-executive","mauthors-mark-kennedy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}