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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, she previously held senior positions at
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,
EMI EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At t ...
and
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.


Early life

Cob-Baehler was born in
San José, Costa Rica San José (; meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital city, capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of San José Province. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Costa Rican Central Valley, Central Valley, wi ...
, in 1971 and moved with her family to
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, in 1981. She attended UCLA and graduated with a degree in political science in 1993.


Career

Cob-Baehler interned at
Elektra Records Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. It played an important role in the development of contemporary folk and rock music between the ...
during her senior year in college, and was hired as an assistant in the publicity department at Atlantic Records in 1993. She was promoted shortly thereafter, and as a publicist for the label she worked with artists including
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,
Sugar Ray Sugar Ray is an American rock band formed in Newport Beach, California, in 1986. Originally playing heavier funk metal and nu metal style music, the band achieved mainstream popularity in 1997 with their more pop-influenced single " Fly". Th ...
, P.O.D., Jewel, and
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. In 1997, she was promoted to national director of media relations, and transferred from Atlantic's Los Angeles office to their New York headquarters. She left the company in 2001 to accept a job at
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. At Columbia, Cob-Baehler supervised the label's West Coast press department while working with
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, System of a Down,
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,
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, and the Raveonettes, among others. She was named Vice President of Publicity in 2002 and soon met then 17-year-old
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, who had yet to release an album on the label, and became one of her earliest supporters. In 2005, Cob-Baehler was named senior vice president of publicity at
Virgin Records Virgin Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group. They were originally founded as a British independent record label in 1972 by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman (musician), ...
. At Virgin, she was responsible for press campaigns for artists including
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,
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,
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, and Iggy Pop and the Stooges. When the Virgin label was merged with Capitol/
EMI EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At t ...
, she was appointed to the position of senior vice president of media and creative services for EMI Music's associated labels:
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,
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,
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, Capitol, Capitol Latin,
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, and Virgin. 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). She gained the support of
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, then the CEO of the label, and Perry was signed to Capitol/Virgin in 2006. Cob-Baehler was credited for creative direction and A&R on Perry's album ''
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'', which went on to sell more than 5,000,000 albums worldwide. She also served as the creative director for Perry's '' Teenage Dream''. Cob-Baehler continued to work closely with Perry until Cob-Baehler left EMI in 2011 to become executive vice president of marketing at
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. 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. In February 2013, Cob-Baehler joined The Firm/The Online Network as the head of marketing and associate producer. Then known as Prospect Park Productions, she led the marketing campaign for the soap operas ''
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'' and ''
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'' about which ''
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'' 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.” Production was halted in 2013 due to a dispute with ABC, and both series were ultimately cancelled. Following the cancellation, Cob-Baehler transitioned to a position as an artist manager. 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
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. Cob-Baehler appeared on '' Billboard's'' 2011 list of prominent women in music. 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
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.


Personal life

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


References

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