Peter Katsis, Veteran Manager for Backstreet Boys, Korn, Jane’s Addiction and More, Dies at 69

By Jem Aswad

Jem Aswad

Executive Editor, Music

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Peter Katsis, a co-founder of the management companies the Firm and Prospect Park who over the course of a 35-year career managed an unusually wide wide variety of artists including Backstreet Boys, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, Jane’s Addiction Morrissey, Ministry and more, died Thursday due to complications from congestive heart failure, a rep confirms to Variety. He was 69.

A native of Chicago, Katsis cut his teeth at the concert board at Northern Illinois University and got his professional start in the early ’80s, managing the alternative band Ministry, who were a synth-pop group at the time but would soon be among the leaders of the genre known as industrial. An active figure on the Chicago dance-music scene of the era, he also worked as an A&R executive at Trax Precision Records booked many of those acts, including Marshal Jefferson and Adonis.

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