Barbara Hein Dead: Capitol Records Operations Manager Was 77

Barbara Hein, a longtime Capitol Records studio operations manager who worked alongside such music legends as Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte , Placido Domingo, Tina Turner and Andrew Lloyd Webber, has died. She was 77.

Hein died Wednesday in Burbank after dealing with “various health conditions” the past few years, a publicist announced.

Born outside of Shanghai in 1948, Hein moved at age 8 from Israel to Los Angeles. She learned to play the guitar and the piano and at 13 put together an all-female pop group called The Beach Girls.

Barbara Hein, a longtime Capitol Records studio operations manager who worked alongside such music legends as Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte , Placido Domingo, Tina Turner and Andrew Lloyd Webber, has died. She was 77.

Hein died Wednesday in Bu