Songwriter ("What a Difference a Day Made", "Ti-Pi-Tin"), composer,
singer and pianist, educated in private music study. Maria Grever made
a number of concert tours (chiefly in Latin America) and wrote special
material for film performers and concert singers. Joining ASCAP in
1935, Maria Grever's chief musical collaborators included Stanley
Adams, Irving Caesar and Raymond Leveen. Other popular-song
compositions included "Jurame", "Lamento Gitano", "Lero, Lero from
Brazil", "Magic Is the Moonlight", "Make Love With a Guitar", and "My
First, My Last, My Only".
Studied composition in Paris with Claude Debussy and Franz Lenhard.
In her later years, after becoming paralyzed, she returned to Mexico in
1949 to great acclaim. She was a frequent speaker on radio and wrote
her autobiography, which served as the basis for the film 'Cuando me
vaya (1954)'.