Derek A.E. Fuhrmann, an ASCAP Pop Award recipient and co-writer of Phillip Phillips’ “Gone, Gone, Gone,” has died. He was 44.
Fuhrmann died June 27 in Nashville following a battle with most cancers, publicist Harlan Boll introduced.
Fuhrmann was a College of Delaware graduate, the place his profession in music ignited. Whereas in faculty, he shaped a band known as Omnisoul that was renamed The Crash Motive. The band signed with Sony BMG in 2005 and went on to have a profitable run as a bunch.
They toured the nation, and some of their songs have been utilized in tv and movie initiatives. Most notably, their monitor “Ready (Save Your Life)” appeared within the 2005 Implausible 4 soundtrack and on the TV sequence Joan of Arcadia.
Fuhrmann went on to pursue a solo profession as a singer, songwriter and producer. He co-wrote Phillip Phillips’ 2012 tune “Gone, Gone, Gone,” which went double-platinum and appeared on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 soundtrack. The tune peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard Scorching 100.
The monitor, too, confirmed up on an episode of Degrassi: The Subsequent Era, a 2013 episode of Danville 2nd Ward Younger Males and Grudge Match, which starred Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone.
For his work on “Gone, Gone, Gone,” Fuhrmann acquired the ASCAP Pop Award on the thirty first awards ceremony. He went on to lend his abilities working with O.A.R., the Goo Goo Dolls, 5 for Preventing and Kygo.
A celebration in honor of Fuhrmann shall be held this fall.
Survivors embrace his spouse, Mackenzie; his sons, Finn and Boone; his mother and father, Fred and Deborah; his sisters, Donna, Karin, Gail and Nancy; and his brothers, Andrew and Rob.