NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Metro Nashville Police have confirmed the death of Grammy-nominated producer Brytavious Chambers, better known as Tay Keith.
The 29-year-old was found dead in his Martin Street apartment Thursday afternoon, MNPD said.
“No foul play is suspected,” police added, saying that his body was discovered as officers performed a welfare check.
Chambers’ cause of death has not yet been determined.
In his last post on Instagram, Chambers promoted doing what he loved — helping create music for major artists. His last post on May 7 was an announcement for Chris Brown’s latest song, “Call Your Name,” which features Sexyy Red and GloRilla.
He was among those included in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Music list in 2025, earning the listing alongside Cambrian Strong for their Drumatized record label.
“At 23, Tay Keith became a Grammy-nominated producer for his work on Travis Scott’s ‘Sicko Mode,’ adding to his roster of clients like Cardi B, Eminem and music’s ‘Queen B’ Beyoncé,” the Forbes’ listing says.
In 2024, Forbes added that he was awarded producer of the year at the BMI Awards.
According to Memphis-based outlet Commercial Appeal, Chambers was born in South Memphis and later lived in East Memphis and later, Orange Mound.
He was nominated for a Grammy in 2018 for his work on Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode,” which he helped produce as he attended Middle Tennessee State University.
His award-winning link to Murfreesboro
According to MTSU, Chambers graduated from the school in December 2018 with degrees in integrated studies and media management.
“There wouldn’t be any point for me to come to college if I didn’t want to finish it — I could have just focused 100% on music,” MTSU quoted him as saying. “By my last week of college, I had my first No. 1 single, so it didn’t make any sense to drop out.”
Much of his success was joined by people who also attended MTSU. Tyland Jackson, his stylist and creative director, graduated from MTSU in 2019, and Nicholas Brownlow, who was his public relations director and Drumatized, graduated that same year.
“I remember having a flight from New York, and I had a test the same day,” Chambers told MTSU. “So, I flew back from New York that morning, went home, then went straight to class. It was crazy. But if I knew that I could do that, then there wasn’t anything stopping me but myself.”

“All my Children” star Paul Avery and his wife, Sheila, tragically died in a devastating house fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
According to WFMZ, the actor, who was 81, and his wife were inside their Blairstown, New Jersey home when it went up in flames.
Firefighters got to the residence before 1 a.m. on Tuesday and pulled the couple out of the flame-engulfed house.
However, Paul and Sheila were in critical condition and died shortly after, per Ridge View Echo.
At the time of his death, Paul was the founder and executive editor of the Ridge View Echo.
Paul’s friend and writer at the paper, Joe Phalon, told WFMZ: “I always like to call Paul the most interesting man in the world, because he was when you consider everything he’s done in his life. Acting, skydiving, Vietnam veteran, started a newspaper.”
He added that Paul’s passing will “leave a real void in this community.”
“Not just Blairstown, but the towns around as well,” Phalon expressed. “I think we’ll really miss him, and I think it’s going to become more apparent over time.”
The cause of the blaze is currently under investigation.
The pair’s daughter, Kyle, took to Facebook to confirm the news on Tuesday.
“I’m devastated to share that our parents, Paul and Sheila Garry Avery, passed away early this morning,” she penned.
“We loved them so much, and they loved us so much, and nobody ever had to wonder if that was so,” Kyle added.
As a teen, Paul was a skydiver before serving as a helicopter crew chief in the Vietnam War. He continued to fly planes as a hobby after exiting the military.
Paul starred on the soap opera “All My Children” for 12 years in the 1980s.
He portrayed a bartender at Foxy’s named Hughie.
Paul also played a cameraman in 1978’s “Superman” and appeared on episodes of “Soap” and “Three’s Company.”
After retiring from acting, the late veteran dove into journalism, first working at the New York Times before landing as founding editor of Ridge View Echo.

No less than 24 hours after Netflix dropped the ax on “The Boroughs,” Nielsen’s latest streaming rankings suggest the sci-fi drama was far from dead on arrival.
For the week of May 18-24, the canceled Duffer Brothers-produced series — whose eight-episode first season dropped on May 21 — ranked No. 2 among all streaming originals with 1.2 billion minutes viewed. That said, Nielsen reports that roughly 57% of the audience was age 50 or older.
It came in directly behind fellow freshman Netflix drama “Nemesis,” which jumped from No. 3 to No. 1 among all streaming originals with 1.31 billion minutes viewed in the week following its May 14 release. Nielsen also notes that Black viewers contributed 57% of the show’s watch time.
Rounding out the Top 3 was Prime Video’s “The Boys,” which generated 1.07 billion minutes viewed the week of its series finale.
Netflix’s “Nemesis” and “The Boroughs” remained No. 1 and No. 2 on the Overall Top 10 chart, while “Dutton Ranch” fell to No. 10 and every other original series dropped out of the rankings altogether.
Among acquired programming, Disney+’s “Bluey” reclaimed the top spot.
On the movies chart, the Netflix documentary “The Crash” finished first in its second week of availability.

Jason Sudeikis is reportedly frustrated after his ex-fiancée, Olivia Wilde, went into detail about the end of their relationship.
During the Wednesday, June 17, episode of Call Her Daddy, Wilde, 42, spoke about a specific conversation she and Sudeikis, 50, had that made her realize their relationship was over.
“Jason and I had been having a rough time for a while. We had a real bumpy, bumpy ride,” the Don’t Worry Darling director told podcast host Alex Cooper.
Wilde went on to explain that on the way home from a birthday celebration for her, she asked the Ted Lasso star if he had gotten her anything for her birthday.
“He said, ‘What would I get you, Olivia? I don’t know you,'” she recalled. “And he wasn’t wrong. We didn’t know each other anymore. That was when we realized it was over.”
However, sources close to the actor told Rob Shuter’s Naughty But Nice Substack on Thursday, June 18, that he felt like Wilde’s version of events left out important context.
“The narrative makes it sound like Jason simply checked out of the relationship,” one source said. “People close to them remember a far more complicated situation.”
Another source said that Sudeikis and “those closest to him feel the real story is being overlooked.”
“From their perspective, everything changed when Olivia fell for Harry [Styles],” the source continued. Wilde and Styles, 32, were in a relationship for nearly two years after meeting on the set of her film, Don’t Worry Darling in 2020 — around the same time she and Sudeikis called it quits.
“Jason has spent years rebuilding his life,” the source added. “He doesn’t understand why old wounds need to be reopened when everyone involved is trying to move on.”
A third source told Naughty But Nice that Sudeikis was initially worried about his kids learning of the former couple’s conversation in the future.
“Jason is incredibly private and was shocked to see this story resurface years later,” the source explained. “His first thought was their children. One day they’ll read these interviews, and that’s what hurts the most.”
The Tron: Legacy actress and Sudeikis first began dating in 2011 and went on to welcome two children – Otis, 12, and Daisy, 9.
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Timothy Busfield wants his indictment thrown out … telling a judge the prosecutors’ presentation of evidence to the grand jury failed to tell the whole story.
The actor filed papers asking a judge to toss the grand jury indictment because the state of New Mexico has “abdicated its role in administering justice” and is blindly pursuing an indictment against him.
Busfield says prosecutors are well aware of an independent investigation into the allegations against him conducted by Warner Bros. that he says found nothing to back those allegations, a lie detector test Busfield passed in which he said he never inappropriately touched one of the alleged victims, and multiple witness affidavits defending him … but has chosen to ignore all of that.
The star says he decided to testify in his own defense in front of the grand jury … and he claims he was treated unfairly by the prosecutor, who he says treated the appearance like “adversarial cross-examination.”
As you know … Busfield surrendered to authorities in New Mexico in January, several days after a warrant for his arrest was issued — and he was indicted on child sex abuse charges in early February. He has denied all the allegations against him. His wife, fellow actress Melissa Gilbert, has insisted he’s innocent as well.
Our “2 Angry Men” podcast hosts Harvey Levin and Mark Geragos have insisted the prosecutors are out-of-control headline seekers … blasting them for not looking into the criminal conviction on fraud charges by one of the parents connected to the case.