Chris Willman Music WriterMartin Kahan, a music video director who worked with major pop and rock acts in the 1980s before coming to specialize in top Nashville artists during the ’90s, died of cancer Sunday in Lakewood, NH.
He was 74.Kahan got his start in music videos working on live clips for Rush in the era just prior to the dawn of MTV. Once that cable channel took off, he became a go-to director for artists like Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Scandal, Michael Bolton and Kiss.
A run of success with country artists at the same time led him to do nearly all of his work in that genre by the time the 1990s arrived.
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