Icons Of The Music Industry: Ken Ehrlich
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1h 3m
Just ahead of the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards, the GRAMMY Museum welcomed legendary television producer/director, and longtime GRAMMY Awards Executive Producer, Ken Ehrlich to the Museum's Clive Davis Theater as we profiled his impressive 40 years producing the GRAMMY Awards. Joining Ehrlich on stage for the panel discussion moderated by Scott Goldman was the GRAMMY Awards production team, including Producer Jesse Collins, Producer Raj Kapoor, Producer/Writer David Wild, and Producer Chantel Sausedo.
As a producer/creator, Ehrlich has introduced numerous innovative concepts for shows ranging from the GRAMMYs, the Emmys, the Blockbuster Awards, the Alma Awards, the Latin GRAMMYs, the European MTV Awards and the MTV Movie Awards, which he created in 1992. Ehrlich also produced the CBS special Sinatra 100 — An All-Star GRAMMY Concert, celebrating Sinatra's 100th birthday. Other specials from Ehrlich's résumé include Lifetime Network's Intimate Portrait, VH1's Divas Live, We Will Always Love You: A GRAMMY Salute to Whitney Houston, and The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute To The Beatles. Other highlights include producing two shows with the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, the first-ever GRAMMY Museum Gala concert, and numerous "In Performance at the White House" shows over the course of the eight years of the Obama administration.
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