Kaye also notably handled music supervision for multiple years of Miss America and Miss USA pageants, as well as for Lip Sync Battle. She was remembered fondly by those she'd worked with over her many years on Idol, with longtime executive producer Nigel Lythgoe sring the following thoughts with THR:

An “American Idol” music supervisor and her husband have been found dead in their Los Angeles home. Officers were conducting a welfare check Monday afternoon at a home in the Encino neighborhood when they found the bodies of a man and woman with gunshot wounds.