Erica Ehm
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Erica Ehm is best known as a pioneering video jockey at the Canadian
cable television station MuchMusic
. She began her television career by contributing to Musi-Video
, a local rock and video show produced in Montreal
.
Ehm left MuchMusic after 10 years to concentrate on her songwriting career.
Since then, she has returned periodically to television, hosting or appearing in shows including Yummy Mummy on Life Network
and Discovery 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
) and Science: From A to Ehm.
After having a child in 2000 with her partner Terry Moshenberg, Founder of The League Of Rock, and another in 2003, she now directs much of her energy into parenting and runs the Yummy Mummy Club with a website at http://www.yummymummyclub.ca. 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
and Caillou's Big Book Club. She has also been contributing editor for What's Up Kids magazine.
Ehm is also a noted songwriter. Van Morrison
, Tim Thorney
, Cassandra Vasik
, Lynne Taylor Donovan and Tom Jackson
are a few of the artists who have recorded her songs. She has won three Canadian Country Music Awards and three SOCAN
Awards. She also co-wrote the theme song for the animated film and series Pippi Longstocking
. Her song "Love Me Even More" was chosen as the theme for the feature Some Things That Stay.
She had a modest acting career, appearing in Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as a secretary, RoboCop: The Series
as television news anchor Rocky Crenshaw, as "Benita" in a stage play version of Brad Fraser
's Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
, as a madam in Replikator
and as Vicky in Jigsaw.
Ehm is also a professional speaker and event host, and author of the book She Should Talk: Conversations with Exceptional Women about Life, Dreams and Success, published by HarperCollins
. As well as a children's book The Mischievous Mom at the Art Gallery. In 2002, she hosted a weekly call-in show on CFRB 1010, a Toronto news/talk radio station, combining current events and lifestyle topics.
She is now best known as a "Mompreneur" and founder of the Yummy Mummy Club.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
cable television station MuchMusic
MuchMusic
MuchMusic is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Bell Media. MuchMusic is dedicated to music-related programs, pop and youth culture.-History:...
. She began her television career by contributing to Musi-Video
Musi-Video show
Musi-Video show was a Music television series which ran in Canada between 1980 and 1984 on Community television. It was a very early example of the format that later would be adopted by the creation of MTV and MuchMusic....
, a local rock and video show produced in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
.
Ehm left MuchMusic after 10 years to concentrate on her songwriting career.
Since then, she has returned periodically to television, hosting or appearing in shows including Yummy Mummy on Life Network
Life Network
Slice is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Shaw Media. Slice is a lifestyle channel directed towards women with programming including talk shows, reality television and more.-History:...
and Discovery Health
Discovery Health Channel
Discovery Health Channel is a website owned by Discovery Communications, created for people interested in health and wellness. Until December 31, 2010, it was a U.S. cable television specialty channel dedicated to television programming that highlights various aspects of health and wellness...
in the U.S. among other countries, Popstars - The One (Global
Global Television Network
Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...
), Real Life with Erica Ehm (Life Network
Life Network
Slice is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by Shaw Media. Slice is a lifestyle channel directed towards women with programming including talk shows, reality television and more.-History:...
), Power Play (Discovery Channel Canada
Discovery Channel Canada
Discovery Channel is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel devoted to nature, adventure, science and technology programming. Discovery Channel is currently owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc...
), The Company (TVOntario
TVOntario
TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO , is a publicly funded, educational English-language television station and media organization in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario...
), Nestlé Baby and You (Rogers Cable
Rogers Cable
Rogers Cable Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., is Canada's largest cable television service provider with about 2.25 million television customers, and over 930,000 Internet subscribers, in Manitoba, Southern & Eastern Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.The...
) and Science: From A to Ehm.
After having a child in 2000 with her partner Terry Moshenberg, Founder of The League Of Rock, and another in 2003, she now directs much of her energy into parenting and runs the Yummy Mummy Club with a website at http://www.yummymummyclub.ca. She has written three stage musicals for the family market. After her first play, Caillou
Caillou
Caillou is a Canadian children's television show based on the books by author Christine L'Heureux and illustrator Hélène Desputeaux. Many of the stories in the animated version began with a grandmother introducing the story to her grandchildren, then reading the story about the book...
's Big Party, sold out in theatres across North America, she was commissioned to write two other shows, The Big Comfy Couch
The Big Comfy Couch
The Big Comfy Couch is a Canadian children's television series about Loonette the Clown and her doll Molly, who solve everyday problems on their "Big Comfy Couch". It aired from 1992 until early 2006. Re-runs of the show are still being aired on Treehouse TV. It was produced by Cheryl Wagner and...
and Caillou's Big Book Club. She has also been contributing editor for What's Up Kids magazine.
Ehm is also a noted songwriter. Van Morrison
Van Morrison
Van Morrison, OBE is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. His live performances at their best are regarded as transcendental and inspired; while some of his recordings, such as the studio albums Astral Weeks and Moondance, and the live album It's Too Late to Stop Now, are widely...
, Tim Thorney
Tim Thorney
Tim Thorney is a Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and record producer, currently working out of Tattoo Sound + Music in Toronto.-History:Thorney first came to prominence as a recording engineer and songwriter. In 1981, he co-wrote most of Lisa DalBello's Drastic Measures album...
, Cassandra Vasik
Cassandra Vasik
Cassandra Vasik is a Canadian country singer/songwriter from Blenheim, Ontario. Vasik won the 1992 Canadian Country Music Association "Rising Star" award as well as the 1992 Juno Award for Best Country Female Vocalist.-Albums:- Singles :...
, Lynne Taylor Donovan and Tom Jackson
Tom Jackson (actor)
Thomas Dale Jackson, OC , is a Canadian born Métis actor and singer perhaps best known for the annual series of Christmas concerts, called the Huron Carole, which he created and starred in for 17 years...
are a few of the artists who have recorded her songs. She has won three Canadian Country Music Awards and three SOCAN
Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada
SOCAN is the Canadian copyright collective for the right to communicate to the public and publicly perform musical works...
Awards. She also co-wrote the theme song for the animated film and series Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi Longstocking is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series...
. Her song "Love Me Even More" was chosen as the theme for the feature Some Things That Stay.
She had a modest acting career, appearing in Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. By the premiere of the show on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades...
as a secretary, RoboCop: The Series
RoboCop: The Series
RoboCop: The Series is a 1994 television series based on the film of the same name. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence that was the hallmark of RoboCop and RoboCop 2...
as television news anchor Rocky Crenshaw, as "Benita" in a stage play version of Brad Fraser
Brad Fraser
Brad Fraser is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and cultural commentator. He is one of the most widely produced Canadian playwrights both in Canada and internationally. Fraser's plays typically feature a harsh yet comical view of contemporary life in Canada, including frank depictions of...
's Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love is a 1989 stage play written by Canadian playwright Brad Fraser. Set in Edmonton, Alberta, the comedy-drama follows the lives of several sexually frustrated "thirty-somethings" who try to learn the meaning of love — during a time in which...
, as a madam in Replikator
Replikator
Replikator is a 1994 science fiction film starring Michael St. Gerard, Brigitte Bako and Ned Beatty...
and as Vicky in Jigsaw.
Ehm is also a professional speaker and event host, and author of the book She Should Talk: Conversations with Exceptional Women about Life, Dreams and Success, published by HarperCollins
HarperCollins
HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
. As well as a children's book The Mischievous Mom at the Art Gallery. In 2002, she hosted a weekly call-in show on CFRB 1010, a Toronto news/talk radio station, combining current events and lifestyle topics.
She is now best known as a "Mompreneur" and founder of the Yummy Mummy Club.