Mariel Gomerez

Mariel Gomerez-Rodriguez is a Dominican-American music executive, A&R, producer, and songwriter. Gomerez has contributed to multiple Grammy-nominated and award-winning projects, including Beyoncé's Homecoming: The Live Album, The Lion King: The Gift (2019), Renaissance (2022), and Cowboy Carter (2024), Chloe x Halle's The Kids Are Alright (2018) and Ungodly Hour (2020), Kehlani's Crash (2024), and Raye's My 21st Century Blues (2023).

Career Early life & musical beginnings Gomerez' love of music began as a student in elementary school, using it as a coping mechanism to juggle struggling with her identity as the only Black student among her classmates from kindergarten to eighth grade as well as only speaking Spanish at home. She began to amass a large collection of CDs from her favorite artists at this time.

2020s- Kehlani, Raye & Josh Levi In 2022, Gomerez co-A&R'ed Grammy-winning album Renaissance. In 2023, Gomerez A&R'ed Grammy-nominated album My 21st Century Blues after maintaining a relationship with Raye that formed during the creation of The Lion King: The Gift, helping Raye transfer to independent imprint Human Re Sources from major label Polydor in the midst of label strife. In 2024, after executive-producing Kehlani album Crash and managing Grammy-winning Beyoncé album Cowboy Carter (as well as receiving an assistant production credit on Billboard number-one single "Texas Hold 'Em"), Gomerez was nominated as one of Billboard Magazine'''s R&B / Hip-Hop Power Players. In 2025, Gomerez executive produced Josh Levi's debut album Hydraulic'' for Raedio / Atlantic Records.

Personal life Gomerez was briefly married to artist Kehlani, before Gomerez filed for an annulment of the marriage three months later citing fraud and infidelity.

Awards and nominations Year Ceremony Award ResultRef 2024 Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players The R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players’ Choice Award