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- Birth nameMaría Joaquina de la Portilla Torres
- 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".- IMDb Mini Biography By: Hup234!
- Wrote her first song at the age of 4.
- 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)'.
- During her lifetime, she composed some 860 songs.
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