Jackie Farry, an industry veteran who worked closely with Nirvana, died at the age of 58—Farry, had battled cancer for more than 20 years.
Farry’s death was confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard by longtime friend manager/producer Janet Billig Rich. Jackie Farry was a music industry veteran who served as tour manager for Elliot Smith and the Lemonheads in the 1990s and was Frances Bean Cobain’s first nanny.
In the 1980s, Farry’s profession started when she performed as a receptionist at Homestead Records, a beloved New York indie label whose roster included such beloved acts as Antietam, Babe the Blue Ox, The Meatmen, Tsunami, Volcano Suns, and others.
She moved on to gigs at Atlantic Records (1988-1989), and Epic Records (1991-1992), where she worked in radio promotion, often with hard rock and metal bands.
She pivoted to working with Nirvana during the band’s heyday, serving as a nanny to singer Kurt Cobain and their wife Courtney Love’s daughter, Frances Bean, until Cobain died in 1994.
