Angelica Cob-Baehler

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Angelica Cob-Baehler
Born
Angelica Cob

(1971-11-09)November 9, 1971
San José, Costa Rica
DiedNovember 21, 2018(2018-11-21) (aged 47)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation Music industry executive
Board member ofGenerosity Water, The Thirst Project
SpouseChapman Baehler
Children2

Angelica Cob-Baehler (November 9, 1971 – November 21, 2018) was a Costa Rican American music industry executive and television producer. The head of music operations at The Firm, and the chief marketing officer for the basketball league Big 3, [1] she previously held senior positions at Columbia Records, EMI and Epic. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Early life

Cob-Baehler was born in San José, Costa Rica, in 1971 and moved with her family to Burbank, California, in 1981. She attended UCLA and graduated with a degree in political science in 1993. [6]

Career

Cob-Baehler interned at Elektra Records during her senior year in college, and was hired as an assistant in the publicity department at Atlantic Records in 1993. [7] She was promoted shortly thereafter, and as a publicist for the label she worked with artists including Kid Rock, Sugar Ray, P.O.D., Jewel, and Stone Temple Pilots. [7] In 1997, she was promoted to national director of media relations, and transferred from Atlantic's Los Angeles office to their New York headquarters. [8] [9] She left the company in 2001 to accept a job at Columbia Records. [10]

At Columbia, Cob-Baehler supervised the label's West Coast press department while working with John Mayer, System of a Down, The Offspring, Coheed and Cambria, and the Raveonettes, among others. [11] [10] She was named Vice President of Publicity in 2002 and soon met then 17-year-old Katy Perry, who had yet to release an album on the label, and became one of her earliest supporters. [12] [13]

In 2005, Cob-Baehler was named senior vice president of publicity at Virgin Records. [10] At Virgin, she was responsible for press campaigns for artists including Thirty Seconds to Mars, Joss Stone, KT Tunstall, and Iggy Pop and the Stooges. [10] When the Virgin label was merged with Capitol/EMI, she was appointed to the position of senior vice president of media and creative services for EMI Music's associated labels: Angel, Astralwerks, Blue Note, Capitol, Capitol Latin, Manhattan, and Virgin. [8]

With Perry's album unreleased by Columbia, Cob-Baehler began a campaign to bring her to Capitol Music Group in 2005 (by grabbing the files from Columbia). [13] She gained the support of Jason Flom, then the CEO of the label, and Perry was signed to Capitol/Virgin in 2006. [13] Cob-Baehler was credited for creative direction and A&R on Perry's album One of the Boys , which went on to sell more than 5,000,000 albums worldwide. She also served as the creative director for Perry's Teenage Dream . [13] [14] Cob-Baehler continued to work closely with Perry until Cob-Baehler left EMI in 2011 to become executive vice president of marketing at Epic Records. [15] [14]

In addition to heading marketing at Epic, Cob-Baehler served in an a&r capacity. Among other artists, she signed the controversial hip hop band Death Grips, who were named Spin magazine's "Artist of the Year" in 2012. [16] [17] [18]

In February 2013, Cob-Baehler joined The Firm/The Online Network as the head of marketing and associate producer. [19] Then known as Prospect Park Productions, she led the marketing campaign for the soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live about which The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Not only are they (TOLN) the first company to revive a long-running daytime drama (thus changing the game for the genre entirely) they are taking two brands with a combined age of over 80 years and basically making them cool again.” [19] Production was halted in 2013 due to a dispute with ABC, and both series were ultimately cancelled. [20] [21] Following the cancellation, Cob-Baehler transitioned to a position as an artist manager. [22] She was promoted to head the Firm's music operations in June 2016,. She also served as the chief marketing officer for Big 3, a basketball league founded by Jeff Kwatinetz and Ice Cube. [5] [1]

Cob-Baehler appeared on Billboard's 2011 list of prominent women in music. [18] She co-produced the 2017 20-episode season of Hip Hop Squares . She served on the board of directors for Generosity Water, the Thirst Project and MusiCares. [18]

Personal life

Cob-Baehler lived in Los Angeles with her husband, photographer Chapman Baehler, with whom she had two daughters. [23] Cob-Baehler died in Los Angeles from cancer on November 21, 2018, at the age of 47. [24]

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