Tracy Zamot, Veteran Publicist for Labels and Streaming Companies, Dead at 56

Tracy Zamot, who represented acts as ranging from matchbox 20 and Lil Wayne and companies including SiriusXM during her more than 30-year tenure as a publicist, has died following an illness. She was 56. Her sister confirmed her death on social media.

At the time of her passing, Zamot was working as a communications specialist with the Tribeca Festival and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, according to her LinkedIn page, but her roots were with major record labels. Variety first reported her death.

“Tracy and I met early in our careers when I was a young publicist at Shorefire faxing her ticket requests at Atlantic for Everything but the Girl’s tour dates back in 1994,” recalls publicist Laurie Jacobson, Jaybird Communications. “Twenty-five years later, she joined me at Jaybird and she was just a joy to work with. She was creative, funny and a very big Public Enemy fan. We used to do an album club during COVID and when it was her turn, she picked It Takes A Nation of Millions. I’m devastated to hear of her passing, and my heart breaks for her daughter, Grace, and her family.

Zamot, who was a 1991 graduate from State University of New York at Albany, started her career at Capitol Records, before shifting to Atlantic Records in 1992. During her decade there, she worked with Rush, Phil Collins, Collective Soul, Led Zeppelin and more, rising to vp of publicity. A stint at Virgin EMI Records, working with Lenny Kravitz and Iggy Pop, among others, followed. She also spent time as senior vp of publicity at Universal Motown Records before moving into corporate communications.

Zamot served as director of artist and music industry communications at Pandora from 2015 to 2017 before shifting to SiriusXM as vp of corporate communications in 2018. She worked at Jaybird from 2019 to 2022.

She is preceded in death by her husband, radio executive John Loscalzo, who died in 2015. They had been together since she was 20, and leave behind teenaged daughter, Gracie.