Nation music songwriter Kyle Jacobs has died, Nashville Police confirmed to Rolling Stone. In line with the Metro Nashville Police Division, Jacobs, the 49-year-old husband of nation singer Kellie Pickler, was discovered useless contained in the couple’s Nashville, Tennessee, house on Friday from an obvious suicide. Officers responded to a 911 name at 1:21 p.m. Friday afternoon.
Pickler instructed police that she had woken up, started looking for her husband and couldn’t discover him. “[She] didn’t see her husband, and commenced searching for him. After she and her private assistant have been unable to open the door to the upstairs bed room/workplace, the assistant telephoned 911,” police mentioned.
Jacobs, a Minnesota native, co-wrote Garth Brooks’ 2007 single “Extra Than a Reminiscence” with Lee Brice and Billy Montana. It holds the excellence of being the primary nation track to debut at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Sizzling Nation Songs chart. Jacobs additionally wrote tracks for artists like Tim McGraw (“Nonetheless”) and Eli Younger Band (“Mud”), and produced a string of hit singles for Brice, together with “Laborious to Love,” “Consuming Class,” and the 2013 ACM Music of the 12 months, “I Drive Your Truck.” Jacobs additionally labored with nation stars like Kelly Clarkson, Randy Travis, Clay Walker, Scott McCreery, and Josh Kelley.
Simply two days earlier than his loss of life, Jacobs celebrated Brice’s 2020 album Hey World being licensed platinum with a social media publish. “An incredible crew of extremely proficient peeps put this one collectively…Deeply honored to be a inventive a part of it…Thanks Jesus!!!” he wrote.
Late final yr, Jacobs shared his Spotify numbers and instructed followers it was “kinda cool seeing how a track created in just a little room on music row can attain so many individuals… Feeling very blessed proper now.”
Jacobs and Pickler married Jan. 1, 2011. In 2015, the couple starred in I Love Kellie Pickler, a CMT actuality sequence documenting their marriage. That very same yr Pickler spoke to Rolling Stone about pulling again the curtain on their house life.
“With something you do in life — professionally or personally — it’s important to construct boundaries and solely share what you’re snug sharing,” Pickler mentioned. “For those who don’t really feel snug sharing a non-public a part of your life, you don’t need to. So from the get-go, Kyle and I needed to construct boundaries. You’ll be able to let individuals in with out exploiting each a part of your life.”
For those who or somebody you realize is fighting suicidal ideas, name the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255). You can even attain out to the Disaster Textual content Line, a free, 24/7 confidential textual content messaging service that gives help to individuals in disaster after they textual content 741741.