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Gerami Groover
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Music producer, educator, scholar, and entrepreneur Gerami Groover began her musical journey as one of the charter students of the Ruth Hamilton-Elta Garrett Music and Arts Academy. At the Academy, she gained a strong musical foundation that later prepared her for acceptance into the Boston Arts Academy (BAA), where she made history as the first female pianist accepted into the school. In 2008, her senior year at BAA, Groover continued giving back to Hamilton-Garrett by creating the Save The Music project. This fully funded grant program provided full-tuition scholarships to students from the Martin Luther King K-8 School in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to attend the Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts Academy.
After BAA, Groover continued to advance in her musicianship by matriculating to the esteemed Berklee College of Music as a full-tuition scholarship recipient. At Berklee, she earned her bachelor's degree in contemporary writing and production with a minor in Latin music performance studies, as well as her master's degree in music technology and innovation. During her studies at Berklee College of Music, Groover began to work heavily in many musical genres, focusing primarily on Latin music. She worked as an assistant producer, composer, and music director for many of Berklee's concerts and recording projects. Groover has had the privilege of sharing the stage with several musical giants, including Brazilian icon Ivan Lins; "El Príncipe de la Salsa” Luis Enrique; Cuba's legendary pianist/composer Chucho Valdes; world-renowned tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo; and Grammy award–winning artist and producer Patrice Rushen, to name a few.
As an arts activist and educator, Groover is a scholar in the music of the African diaspora, primarily in North and Latin America. In 2016, she founded Gerami Groover Presents, Inc., a collective of global artists with a mission to preserve and present the music of the African diaspora through education and innovative technology.
She is a firm believer in the power of music and arts education, always allowing herself time to give back to the current and preceding generations of youth. For years, she has traveled and worked tirelessly to provide excellent music and arts education programs to youth in the Dominican Republic, Southern Africa, and the U.S. In 2016, Groover was selected by President Barack Obama's administration as the first American fellow for the Mandela-Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Reciprocal Exchange. As a fellow, she traveled to the Kingdom of Eswatini to work with YALi fellow Miliswa Mamba and the U.S. Embassy, award-winning musicians, and government leaders to create an initiative called Emandla Emculo (The Power of Music), which served as the first formal music education program in Eswatini.
Today, Groover serves proudly as the Executive Director of Hamilton-Garrett Music and Arts and looks forward to realizing the organization's mission to develop Boston's next generation of innovative artists through the celebration and preservation of Black music. She is also an assistant professor in the harmony and jazz composition department at Berklee College of Music. When not at work, Groover enjoys spending her time outdoors with her husband and daughter.
- First female pianist accepted into Boston Arts Academy and Berklee City Music
- Executive and Artistic Director for Hamilton-Garrett Center for Music and Arts
- TEDx Speaker
- First American recipient of the Mandela-Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders - Reciprocal Exchange