Barney Kilpatrick, Veteran Radio Promo Exec and Artist Manager, Dies at 65

Barney Kilpatrick during The Recording Academy Town Hall Discussion on October 24, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia.has died at the age of 65. According to his family, Kilpatrick suffered from depression and anxiety for many years and took his own life on Dec. 3.

Kilpatrick was born in Snyder, Texas, before moving to New Orleans at a young age. From then on, Kilpatrick identified deeply with the culturally rich city. He earned an undergraduate degree in journalism from Louisiana State University and received a law degree from Tulane University shortly afterwards.During his time at Tulane and prior, he was on-air talent at the college radio station WTUL. He later DJ’d as Barney K at one of the earliest top 40 stations in the U.S., WTIX-AM in New Orleans.

His love for music was ever-present. Kilpatrick took piano lessons from New Orleans’ legendary Roosevelt Sykes and went on to be an early organizer for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. In 1985, Kilpatrick took on the local radio promotion job at IRS Records in Dallas. He was later promoted to the IRS home office in Los Angeles before moving to Houston to do radio promotion for Warner Bros. Records in 1988. Warner promoted Kilpatrick and returned him to Los Angeles where he became a vp in 1995, working closely with

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