Peter Katsis, manager for Smashing Pumpkins, Jane's Addiction and Morrissey, dead at 69

Peter Katsis, a euphony manager who helped shepherd the careers of Smashing Pumpkins, Jane’s Addiction, Morrissey and Backstreet Boys, has died. He was 69.

Representatives for Katsis confirmed his decease connected Thursday successful Los Angeles, from complications of congestive bosom failure, successful a connection to the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard. “To the euphony world, Peter was 1 of the astir influential managers of his generation. His vision, instincts and fierce content successful his artists helped signifier immoderate of the astir important careers successful euphony for much than 4 decades. He saw possibilities others didn’t, inspired those astir him to imagination bigger, and fought relentlessly for the radical and artists helium believed in,” his household said.

“Peter was simply larger than life. He loved fiercely, laughed loudly and lived with bonzer courageousness and conviction. Above everything else, helium loved his family. He was our strength, our fiercest advocate, and the idiosyncratic we could ever number connected to judge thing was possible. The void helium leaves successful our lives and our hearts is immeasurable.”

Katsis’ vocation began successful Chicago, wherever helium managed the groundbreaking concern stone radical Ministry. He besides worked with emerging determination location euphony acts, helming A&R for the indispensable statement Trax Records and booked acts similar Marshall Jefferson and Adonis astatine globally salient nightclubs.

After moving to Los Angeles successful the aboriginal ’90s, helium worked with the Cramps and different experimental stone acts earlier joining Jeff Kwatinetz astatine the Firm. There helium managed hard stone acts including Korn and Limp Bizkit, helping marque them superstars of the “TRL” era. He besides worked with 30 Seconds to Mars, rapper Snoop Dogg, and played a large relation successful gathering Audioslave, the supergroup of Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell and members of Rage Against the Machine.

Katsis took connected divers popular acts similar Enrique Iglesias arsenic well, and helped crook the Backstreet Boys into a stadium act, breaking Ticketmaster records for its 1999 Into the Millennium tour.

In 2008, Katsis co-founded a caller absorption firm, Prospect Park, with Kwatinetz and Rich Frank, gathering a roster that included Smashing Pumpkins, Jane’s Addiction and Morrissey. Katsis besides repped Liz Phair, 311, Bush, Fever 333, and popular groups Pentatonix, One Republic and 5 Seconds of Summer.

Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan wrote connected Instagram that helium was “Heartbroken that Pete is gone. He meant a batch to Chloe and I arsenic a beloved person and extended subordinate of our family. He volition beryllium missed and I’ll ever cherish his aggravated candor and heavy emotion of large music; which was infectious. And helium deserves immense recognition for helping to usher successful the alternate gyration of the ’80s and ’90s and beyond. He was genuinely 1 of a kind. One of a us. And Chicago royalty done and through.”

Katsis is survived by his sister Anastasia and his lad Ian.