About Tracey
Tracey Pepper is a Los Angeles-based consultant who coaches people in the entertainment industry to interact effectively with the press through media training. A former journalist and magazine editor, Pepper also creates a range of editorial content, including bios, press releases, and EPK interview footage, for Warner Bros. Records, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music Group, Interscope Records, and 19 Entertainment (American Idol), as well as for several independent public relations and artist management companies.
Pepper has written original publicity bios for Josh Groban, Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Kings of Leon, Leona Lewis, Ben Folds, Michael Bublé, Cyndi Lauper, Indigo Girls, and Kylie Minogue (see a complete list here), the cast of 19 Entertainment’s new web series If I Can Dream, as well as for music-industry executives Alexandra Patsavas and Pat Magnarella, among others. She has also helped her clients launch major press campaigns for various albums, tours, and events by creating press material for Metallica, Green Day, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Norah Jones, R.E.M., Serj Tankian, Rosanne Cash, Devo, and classical pianist Lang Lang, among many others.
Pepper is a former Senior Editor for Spin magazine, where she spent seven years editing profiles, news, and pop-culture features by such well-known authors as Chuck Klosterman and Marc Spitz. She has also worked as a music editor at Interview magazine and as a Senior Editor at Natural Health magazine. Pepper’s writing has appeared in Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker (“Goings On About Town”), Playboy, Teen People, Interview, Cosmo Girl, Natural Health, Vegetarian Times, Stuff, Us, The Face, Paper, Chicago Magazine, and The New York Observer, where she worked as a reporter. Pepper holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a B.A. in English from Tufts University.
