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Erica Ehm | |
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| Born | Erica Miechowsky (1961-09-30)September 30, 1961 (age 63) |
| Occupation(s) | VJ, radio personality and author |
| Spouse(s) | Terry Moshenberg; 2 children |
Erica Miechowsky (born September 30, 1961), known professionally asErica Ehm, is a Canadian writer, actor, songwriter, entrepreneur and TV host. She is best known as a pioneeringvideo jockey at the Canadian cable television stationMuchMusic.
She got her first job atCHOM-FM sorting records for DJs.[1] She began her television career by contributing toMusi-Video, a local rock and video show produced inMontreal, Quebec. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from theUniversity of Ottawa.
Ehm moved to Toronto where she found a job working as a receptionist atCitytv, which owned the soon-to-launch cable channelMuchMusic, and when the new station began hiringvideo jockeys in 1984 she applied[1] and became one of the station's first VJs.[2][3]
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 includingYummy Mummy onLife Network andDiscovery Health in the U.S. among other countries,Popstars - The One (Global),Real Life with Erica Ehm (Life Network),Power Play (Discovery Channel Canada),The Company (TVOntario),Nestlé Baby and You (Rogers Cable) andScience: From A to Ehm.[citation needed]
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,Caillou's Big Party, sold out in theatres across North America, she was commissioned to write two other shows,The Big Comfy Couch andCaillou's Big Book Club.[citation needed]
Ehm has written songs which have been recorded by, among others,Van Morrison,Tim Thorney,Cassandra Vasik andTom Jackson. She has won threeCanadian Country Music Awards and threeSOCAN Awards. She co-wrote the theme song for the animated film and seriesPippi Longstocking. Her song "Love Me Even More" was chosen as the theme for the feature filmSome Things That Stay. She had a modest acting career, appearing inAlfred Hitchcock Presents as a secretary,RoboCop: The Series as television news anchor Rocky Crenshaw, as "Benita" in a stage play version ofBrad Fraser'sUnidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, as a madam inReplikator and as Vicky inJigsaw.[citation needed]
Ehm authoredShe Should Talk: Conversations with Exceptional Women about Life, Dreams and Success, published byHarperCollins, as well as a children's book,The Mischievous Mom at the Art Gallery.[4] In 2002, she hosted a weekly call-in show onCFRB 1010, a Toronto news/talk radio station.
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