{"id":41065,"date":"2025-07-16T00:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/american-idol-music-supervisor-husband-shot-killed-at-l-a-home\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T00:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:45:53","slug":"american-idol-music-supervisor-husband-shot-killed-at-l-a-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/16\/american-idol-music-supervisor-husband-shot-killed-at-l-a-home\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;American Idol&#8217; Music Supervisor, Husband Shot, Killed at L.A. Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>LAPD confirmed to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> that a suspect has been arrested in connection with the double homicide<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRobin Kaye, a longtime music supervisor for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/american-idol\/\" id=\"auto-tag_american-idol\" data-tag=\"american-idol\">American Idol<\/a><\/em>, and her husband, Thomas Deluca, were shot and killed at their Encino home, and were found dead Monday afternoon, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) confirmed with <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile police did not provide additional information, an official confirmed that a suspect had been detained in connection with the killings. According to several reports on Tuesday, officers were called to Deluca and Kaye\u2019s home in Encino Monday afternoon after the couple had not been seen for several days. Officers found the couple dead from gunshot wounds to the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe are devastated to hear of Robin and her dear husband, Tom\u2019s, passing,\u201d a spokesperson for <em>American Idol<\/em> told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cRobin has been a cornerstone of the Idol family since 2009 and was truly loved and respected by all who came in contact with her. Robin will remain in our hearts forever and we share our deepest sympathy with her family and friends during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tNo motive has been revealed as the Valley Homicide Bureau continues to investigate the killing. A neighbor of the couple told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/american-idol-robin-kaye-thomas-deluca-killed-home-1236461152\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em> that police were called after a person was seen scaling a wall at the couple\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAccording to her IMDB, Kaye worked on nearly 300 <em>American Idol<\/em> episodes. She was also credited as a music supervisor for Miss Universe, <em>Lip Sync Battle<\/em>, <em>The Dance Scene<\/em>, <em>Crashed<\/em>, and several other shows. According to <em>Variety<\/em>, Deluca was a songwriter and musician. They were both 70 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe general public assumes that music supervision is a glamorous and exciting job \u2014 being paid to work with one of everyone\u2019s favorite pastimes, music,\u201d Kaye told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/music\/news\/8-music-supervisors-to-watch-gms-awards-1203137712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em> for a feature in 2019. \u201c[But] in most films and scripted television \u2026 the music is usually the very last thing that happens, and sometimes there is not enough budget left to fill all the music needs. Music supervisors are often expected to work fast and pull miracles creatively and financially to complete the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/american-idol-music-supervisor-husband-shot-killed-home-1235386714\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAPD confirmed to Rolling Stone that a suspect has been arrested in connection with the double homicide Robin Kaye, a longtime music supervisor for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}