Bob Grever (1936 – August 23, 2016) was an American
music executive
A music executive or record executive is a person within a record label who works in senior management and makes executive decisions over the label's artists. Their role varies greatly but in essence, they can oversee one, or many, aspects of a re ...
who once owned
San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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independent record label
Cara Records
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.
He became the "most powerful record company owner" in the state of Texas in the 1980s. Grever sold the record company and its roster of recordings as well as its
Tejano music
Tejano music ( es, música tejana), also known as Tex-Mex music, is a popular music style fusing Mexican and US influences. Typically, Tejano combines Mexican Spanish vocal styles with dance rhythms from Czech and German genres – particular ...
musicians to
EMI Latin
Capitol Latin (formerly EMI Latin) is a brand of Universal Music Latin Entertainment, a division of Universal Music Group. Previously, it was a subsidiary of EMI.
History
In 1989, José Behar, the former head of CBS Discos, signed Selena to E ...
, spearheading the 1990s Tejano music golden age.
His most notable artists include
Emilio Navaira
Emilio H. Navaira III (August 23, 1962 – May 16, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter of Tejano and country music. He is the winner of one Grammy Award and one Latin Grammy Award.
Known to most by the mononym Emilio, he charted more than ...
and
Selena
Selena Quintanilla Pérez (; April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995), known mononymously as Selena, was an American Tejano singer. Called the " Queen of Tejano music", her contributions to music and fashion made her one of the most celebrated Mex ...
.
Other musicians Grever signed were Joe Posada,
David Lee Garza
David Lee Garza (born February 15, 1957) is an American Tejano musician and bandleader. Garza was born and raised in Poteet, Texas.
Garza and his band have been responsible for jumpstarting the careers of numerous Tejano vocalists by way of coll ...
, Bobby Naranjo,
Mazz
Mazz is a Tejano band originally from Brownsville, Texas. The band was known for their idiosyncratic and innovative form of Tejano cumbia which made them distinguishable among their counterparts. Mazz became one of the most popular Tejano music b ...
, and
La Mafia
La Mafia is a five-time Grammy Award-winning musical group. It has its roots in the Northside neighborhood of Houston, Texas, and has charted a course as a Tejano music, Latin music band.
History
La Mafia was founded in 1980 in Houston, TX. ...
.
Songwriter
Luis Silva became head of promotions while working for Cara Records.
Grever came from a musician family, his grandmother
Maria Grever
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, became one of the most successful female composers.
Music critic Ramiro Burr of the ''
San Antonio Express-News
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'' called Grever "one of the two most important people in the Tejano music explosion of the 80's and 90's."
After Grever sold Cara Records, he worked with the
Backstreet Boys
Backstreet Boys (often abbreviated as BSB) are an American vocal group consisting of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, and cousins Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson. Lou Pearlman formed the group in 1993 in Orlando, Florida.
The gr ...
and
NSYNC
NSYNC (, ; also stylized as *NSYNC or 'N Sync) was an American boy band formed by Chris Kirkpatrick in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich. Their self-titled debut album was successfully released to European ...
.
He also became president of
Zomba Group
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Malawi
*Zomba, Malawi, city
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's Latin music division. Grever died on August 23, 2016, due to complications brought on by
cancer
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on August 23, 2016; he was 79 years old.
He was posthumously awarded at the
2016 Tejano Music Awards for Special Lifetime Achievement.
References
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American music industry executives
Record producers from Texas
Selena
1930 births
2016 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Texas
Businesspeople from San Antonio
Place of birth missing