Erica Miechowsky (born September 30, 1961), known professionally as Erica Ehm, is a Canadian writer, actor, songwriter, entrepreneur and TV host. She is best known as a pioneering

video jockey A video jockey (abbreviated VJ or sometimes veejay) is an announcer or host who introduces music videos and live performances on commercial music television channels such as MTV, VH1, Much (TV channel), MuchMusic and Channel V. Origins The term " ...

at the Canadian cable television station

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Biography

She got her first job at

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sorting records for DJs. She began her television career by contributing to '' Musi-Video'', a local rock and video show produced in

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. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the

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. Ehm moved to Toronto where she found a job working as a receptionist at

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, which owned the soon-to-launch cable channel

, and when the new station began hiring

s in 1984 she applied and became one of the station's first VJs. Ehm left MuchMusic in 1994, after ten years, to concentrate on her songwriting career. Since then, she has returned periodically to television, hosting or appearing in shows including ''Yummy Mummy'' on

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and Discovery Health in the U.S. among other countries, ''Popstars - The One'' (

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), ''Real Life with Erica Ehm'' (

), ''Power Play'' (

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), ''The Company'' (

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), ''Nestlé Baby and You'' (

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) and ''Science: From A to Ehm''. After having a child in 2000 with her spouse Terry Moshenberg, who founded The League of Rock, and another child in 2003, she runs the Yummy Mummy Club. She has written three stage musicals for the family market. After her first play, ''

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's Big Party'', sold out in theatres across North America, she was commissioned to write two other shows, ''

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'' and ''Caillou's Big Book Club''. Ehm has written songs which have been recorded by, among others,

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and Tom Jackson. She has won three

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and three

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Awards. She co-wrote the theme song for the animated film and series ''

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''. Her song "Love Me Even More" was chosen as the theme for the feature film ''Some Things That Stay''. She had a modest acting career, appearing in ''

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'' as a secretary, '' RoboCop: The Series'' as television news anchor Rocky Crenshaw, as "Benita" in a stage play version of

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's ''

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'', as a madam in ''

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'' and as Vicky in ''

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''. Ehm authored ''She Should Talk: Conversations with Exceptional Women about Life, Dreams and Success'', published by

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, as well as a children's book, ''The Mischievous Mom at the Art Gallery''.Rebecca Eckler and Erica Ehm talk turkey about collaborating on their new book
/ref> In 2002, she hosted a weekly call-in show on

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1010, a Toronto news/talk radio station, combining current events and lifestyle topics.

References

External links

Personal website: ericaehm.comProfile at YMC.caTall Poppy Interview Erica Ehm - Torontoist
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ehm, Erica 1961 births Living people Actresses from Montreal Anglophone Quebec people Jewish Canadian writers Canadian songwriters Canadian television actresses Much (TV channel) personalities Canadian women non-fiction writers Canadian VJs (media personalities) Canadian women television personalities Writers from Montreal 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers 21st-century Canadian women writers