Justin Cosby, Co-Founder of Australia’s Inertia Music, Dies at 50 Billboard 15 hrs ago Lars Brandle
Justin Cosby, co-founder and director of A&R at Inertia Music, one of Australia’s leading independent music companies of the past two decades, passed away last Friday (June 25). He was 50.
Cosby’s death was announced in statement issued Saturday by Inertia, the Sydney-based independent music company, which described the late executive as a “loving partner, dedicated friend” and “inquisitive music lover.”
Cosby’s “inexhaustible, enduring love of music and the relationships he invested in, personal and professional, will be his legacy,” reads the statement.
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