Ben Vaughn, President & CEO of Warner/Chappell Nashville, has handed away, aged 49.
The information was confirmed at this time (January 30) in an inner memo from Warner Chappell Music Co-Chairs Guy Moot and Carianne Marshall.
“It’s with damaged hearts that we share the unthinkable information that Ben Vaughn, President & CEO of Warner Chappell Nashville, handed away this morning,” the memo reads.
“Our deepest condolences are together with his household and lots of associates.”
You’ll be able to learn their memo in full under:
To everybody at WMG,
It’s with damaged hearts that we share the unthinkable information that Ben Vaughn, President & CEO of Warner Chappell Nashville, handed away this morning. Our deepest condolences are together with his household and lots of associates.
Ben has led our Nashville crew since 2012, and we all know that a lot of you all over the world bought to know him over time. Anybody who had the pleasure of working with him will probably be as shocked and saddened as we’re.
At the beginning, Ben was a unprecedented human being. He met everybody with enthusiasm, heat, and generosity. His smile was enormous, and his humorousness was infectious.
He was all the time a passionate advocate of songwriters and a topflight music writer. The Nashville group has misplaced certainly one of its biggest champions, and he will probably be profoundly missed by so many throughout our firm and the complete trade.
We’re planning to go to the Nashville crew very quickly and thanks all for serving to help them via this terrible tragedy.
With love,
Man & Carianne
All through his publishing profession, Vaughn labored with artists together with Thomas Rhett, Devin Dawson, Dan + Shay, Midland, Cale Dodds, LANco, Brandon Lay, Josh Phillips, Riley Inexperienced, Michael Ray, Gone West, Seth Ennis, A Thousand Horses, Morgan Evans, and Carlton Anderson.
Previous to his work on the majors, Vaughn ran an unbiased music publishing firm from the age of 20. He joined EMI as VP, A&R in 2002.
“Ben was a unprecedented human being. He met everybody with enthusiasm, heat, and generosity. His smile was enormous, and his humorousness was infectious. The Nashville group has misplaced certainly one of its biggest champions, and he will probably be profoundly missed by so many throughout our firm and the complete trade.”
Guy Moot and Carianne Marshall
In 2009, Vaughn turned the youngest govt to go a significant writer in Nashville, as EVP & GM at EMI Music Publishing.
In 2017, Ben Vaughn was named President of Warner Chappell Nashville, six years after shifting to the corporate after a decade at EMI. On this function, he headed Warner Chappell’s total Nashville operation – together with all artistic and business actions throughout A&R, administration, enterprise improvement, finance, and human assets.
Vaughn was promoted once more in 2019 to the place of President & CEO of Warner Chappell Nashville.
In 2018, Ben Vaughn turned the primary music writer to turn into the Chairman of the Academy of Nation Music in its 52-year historical past.Music Enterprise Worldwide
