Jeremy Evan Tepper (November 18, 1963 – June 14, 2024) was an American musician, journalist, and record industry executive.
The former frontman of the band World Famous Blue Jays, he founded the record label Diesel Only Records in 1990, along with Jay Sherman-Godfrey and Albert Caiati.
[1] Along with Caiati, Tepper subsequently became the "head honcho" of Diesel Only.
[2] He was also the managing editor of the magazine Vending Times prior to 1992,[3] and later became the publisher and editor-in-chief of the jukebox industry trade journal Street Beat.
His father, Noel Tepper, was a lawyer in Poughkeepsie, New York, and his mother, Elly Tepper, was a third-grade teacher at Keolu Elementary School in Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii.