d-mars.com Top 50 Black Professionals & Entrepreneurs of Texas
Felicia Drake 2022 SUPER P&E
owned operation to serve the community. Grooves is sometimes the meeting place for city leaders and residents to get to know each other and work together. The event center is also a highly soughtout venue for concerts and special events, hosting numerous celebrity and high-profile recording artists. But the work doesn't stop there; Felicia's most significant achievement and top role is being a devoted mother to her talented and towering 6'2" son, Andre, also a business owner. Together they live in the heart of Houston, in the Texas Medical Center. Felicia has a business degree from the University of Houston, corporate tenure with Chase Bank, and over 20 years of travel and entrepreneurship running Salon Zone magazine and Drake Marketing Agency. She now applies those superb marketing skills to run Grooves as a staple in Houston's event and nightlife community for more than the last decade. Felicia is the epitome of a woman who means business and accredits her success to the help of her mom, affectionately known as “Miss V” and Uncle Jerry. Felicia Drake Owner Grooves 2300 Pierce Street Houston, Texas 77003 www.houstongrooves.com
C
an a nightclub be a safe haven for the community? It can and has under the leadership of businesswoman and community advocate Felicia Drake. Felicia is the savvy and modest owner of Houston's trendy nightclub and restaurant, Grooves, located in East Downtown Houston on the southern cusp of the Historic Third Ward. When the previous owner, NBA Hall of
98
Famer Clyde Drexler, stepped down, Felicia stepped up, transforming Grooves into an all-inclusive event center that now serves over 3,000 patrons every weekend while keeping the door open to those pushing for positive change in the community. Felicia has always stood out as a woman of distinction in the Houston area. She is passionate about social justice and uses her multi-million dollar, family-
TOP 50 BLACK P&E 2022 - 10TH ANNIVERSARY
