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 cancer, publicist Harlan Boll announced.
Fuhrmann was a University of Delaware graduate, where his career in music ignited. While in college, he formed a band called Omnisoul that was renamed The Crash Motive. The band signed with record label Sony BMG in 2005 and went on to have a successful run as a group.
They toured around the nation and a few of their songs were used in television and film projects. Most notably, their track “Waiting (Save Your Life)” appeared in the 2005 Fantastic Four soundtrack and the TV series Joan of Arcadia.
Fuhrmann went on to pursue a solo career as a singer, songwriter and producer. He co-wrote Phillip Phillips’ 2012 song “Gone, Gone, Gone,” which went double-platinum and appeared on The Amazing Spider-Man 2 soundtrack. The song peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The track, too, showed up on an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation, a 2013 episode of Danville 2nd Ward Young Men and Grudge Match, which starred Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone.
For his work on “Gone, Gone, Gone,” Fuhrmann received the ASCAP Pop Award at the 31st awards ceremony. He went on to lend his talents working with O.A.R., the Goo Goo Dolls, Five for Fighting and Kygo.
A celebration in honor of Fuhrmann will be held this fall.
Survivors include his wife, Mackenzie; his sons, Finn and Boone; his parents, Fred and Deborah; his sisters, Donna, Karin, Gail and Nancy; and his brothers, Andrew and Rob.