Bio
Mynie Grové is an award-winning South African singer-songwriter and music producer who's been involved in the music industry for many years.
Her passion is the development of local music and she's been involved in producing various successful South African artists including Danie Niehaus, Jennifer Jones and Judith Sephuma.
She grew up the first in her musical family to pursue music formally, playing the piano by ear at the age of three and composing before she learnt to read.
She studied graphic design and music after school but gave it up after being discovered by German producer Claude Larson.
Most people enter the business by playing in bands or knocking on record company doors - Mynie did so by performing for German TV's Rundfunk 1, playing a rosewood babygrand on Signal Hill in a red mini dress singing her own composition.
Claude Larson moved to Cape Town and Mynie became a founder member of the Claude Larson Singers. This developed into a duo called Mynie & Jan and from there her star was on the rise. Claude taught her the rudiments of studio production, session work, music arrangement and music publishing.
Mynie went solo on the invitation of Albie Venter of EMI-Brigadiers, later signed with Moonshine Records and formed her own music publishing Mailbox Music. She moved to Johannesburg and joined an exclusive jingle and session singers team.
She became popular with TV audiences through a myriad of TV performances, music series and specials, and was sought after as personality for newspapers, magazine articles and covers.
She appeared in the first multi-racial TV advert, Mobil's "You Are No. 1", singing in English, Zulu, Sotho and Afrikaans.
Although she acted in movies and television series it was always going to be music calling her back time after time.
She performed and recorded with Ringo Madlingozi, Judith Sephuma, Yvonne-Chaka-Chaka, Brenda Fassie, Abigail Kubekha, Richard-John Smith, Al Etto, Taliep Petersen, Steve Kekana, Blondie & Papa, Babsi Malangene, Jennifer Jones, Vicky Sampson, Big Sky, Laurika Rauch, Anton Goosen, Nataniel, Amanda Strydom, Karen Zoid and Danie Niehaus, among others.
She participated across continents sharing the spotlight with superstars like Gloria Estefan, Andy Gibb, Alison Moyet, Erasure, Jose Feliciano, OMD, and others. Her ad hoc Amagroove Youth Choir has performed with Josh Groban and Diana Ross and toured South Africa with Michael Bublè in 2007.
Mynie represented South Africa in three international music festivals. This led to TV appearances across continents, scored movie and TV theme music and whatever other platforms came her way.
She started her own label, Vusa Records, and manages a publishing catalogue of her own material of 450 songs/compositions which includes the evergreen Sweef Soos 'n Arend, Always and Gypsy.
Among others, European star Dana Winner recorded one of Mynie's songs on Ergens in Mijn Hart which went platinum within the first month.
Mynie has served on boards and steering committees of Cape Music Industry Commission, PANSA, Cape WOW and MUSA, partnered the amalgamation of music unions, negotiated with AAA's to upgrade session singers' fees equalling voice over artists', and has assisted previously disadvantaged talents into music industry participation.
Other talents that counselled with her include Freshlyground and alternative rock group Zinkplaat. She set up Coastal Artist Network to service coastal music business. This private effort realised when the Department of Economic Development and Tourism set up the Cape Music Industry Commission aka CAPEMIC.
Mynie trades as Amagroove Music, a music service provider to corporates. She loves this exciting environment designing systems, strategies and producing the encouragement of self-development through song.
She was a judge of the reality singing competition Afrikaans Idols on kykNET in 2006 and was one of the interview subjects in the fourth episode of the M-Net docu-drama series Crimes Uncovered, in 2012, speaking about the murder of her friend and colleague Taliep Petersen.