Condolences: Angelica Cob-Baehler
• Angelica Cob-Baehler, a longtime music-business management and publicity executive, died Wednesday, Nov. 21 after a long battle with cancer, Variety has confirmed. She was 47.
Cob-Baehler, affectionately known as “Geli,” began her career as an intern at Elektra Records, and after her graduation from UCLA in 1993 was hired as a publicity assistant at Atlantic Records. She later rose to Senior Director before joining Columbia Records as a VP in 2001. While at Columbia, she worked closely with John Mayer, System of a Down and The Offspring, and also developed a strong relationship with a young singer whose album for the label was never released: Katy Perry.
In 2005 Cob-Baehler moved to Virgin Records as an SVP, where she launched an ultimately successful campaign to bring Perry to the label and played a large role in the A&R and creative direction of Perry’s 2008 breakthrough album, One of The Boys and its follow-up, Teenage Dream.
In 2011 Cob-Baehler was named EVP of Marketing at Epic Records, a position that lasted less than a year — she then joined Jeff Kwatinetz at Prospect Park, which morphed into The Firm and later Big3/Prospect Park/Cube Vision, where she worked closely with Ice Cube, his son (and Straight Outta Compton star) O’Shea Jackson Jr. and other artists. In 2016 Cob-Baehler was promoted to the head of music at the company, but she became ill not long after and spent much of the past few years battling the disease.
She leaves her husband, Chapman, and two young daughters.
