Jeff Cheen, a music executive who worked with legends like John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Steve Miller and Rick James, died at 80 on Oct. 16 after a long cancer battle, according to his wife Chunhong Wang. Before his death, Cheen had a career working with some big names and helped spread different genres of music across Asia. He served as an executive for labels like Tetragrammaton and Mercury, where he had clients that included John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Joan Rivers, George Harrison, Steve Miller, Deep Purple, Bang and Tiny Tim, before producing the first Pacific Rim Festival in Los Angeles. He then expanded into the Asian market, working to bring reggae, pop, and jazz to China, which led to him becoming a consultant for the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China. He toured Jimmy Witherspoon and Helen Reddy throughout Asia, where he lived for 13 years before returning to the U.S. He is survived by his wife Chunhong, whom he married in 2015, his sons, Justin and Garrett, and his grandchildren, Henry and Eva.
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