Cindy Charles, Twitch’s Head of Music, Dies in Traffic Accident at 69

Prior to her 6 years at Twitch, Charles worked as an independent digital media specialist and likewise spent 3 years at Amazon, where she functioned as the head of company growth in the songs division of Amazon Ticketing, together with working in the Video Shorts division. Previously in her career, she spent 7 years at Viacom, where she managed electronic legal and service affairs for entities within MTV Networks.

Shiver CEO Daniel Clancyconfirmed Charles’ death Friday on LinkedIn. Clancy said that “anyone that uses songs on Twitch owes a financial obligation of thankfulness to Cindy’s work. She constantly had a brilliant smile on her face even as she worked out extraordinary music licensing arrangements for Twitch consisting of the current DJ agreement.”

Past those settings, Charles functioned as an expert to the board of guvs at the Recording Academy, was a co-founder of Women in Digital, which has more than 1,500 members, and co-founded the San Francisco chapter of She is the Songs.

That offer, which especially covers DJs who live-stream on the platform, was announced in June and entailed Twitch signing songs licensing take care of all 3 significant tags– Global Songs Team, Warner Songs Group and Sony Songs Amusement– in addition to numerous indie labels represented by Merlin.

“Every success, every trouble, every moment of pursuing our common mission felt deeply individual,” Twitch’s Kira Karlstrom wrote in a remembrance of Charles, “due to the fact that Cindy made it that way. She cared about her team with all her heart, and our job was an expansion of that treatment.”