Kenneth Ehrlich

Kenneth "Ken" Ehrlich is an American television producer and director. He has produced network television programs since 1974, when he created the PBS music series, Soundstage, for Chicago public television. He moved to Los Angeles two years later and began his career, which has included more than three decades of telecasting Grammy Awards, five the Emmy Awards ceremonies.

Beginning in 1980, he began producing the Grammy Award telecasts for CBS, and is responsible for creating the concept of “Grammy moments”, which have included such memorable performances by Prince and Beyonce, Aretha Franklin's operatic debut, the famous Eminem-Elton John duet, as well as Melissa Etheridge-Joss Stone, and historic reunions between Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, and the musical group, The Police. In 2010, he was presented with the Recording Academy's President's Award for his long-time service to the Grammy Awards event.^{[citation needed]}

Ehrlich has produced such specials as "The Sports Illustrated 20th Century Sports Awards" (2000), "In Performance at the White House; Music of the Civil Rights Movement" (2009), "The NFL Kickoff Spectacular in Times Square" (2002), "Mandela Freedomfest" (1988), "Live 8 the Philadelphia LIVE 8 event" (2006) as well as numerous other prime time specials for both broadcast and cable networks. In 2011, he directed Celine Dion's New Las Vegas Show, which is currently in the midst of a three year run at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.^{[citation needed]}

Ehrlich has been nominated for five Emmy Awards, is the recipient of one Golden Globe Award, and was presented with the Producer's Guild of America Visionary Award in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

On 7 February 2012, Ehrlich claimed the Grammy Awards were the real victim of Chris Brown's assault on Rihanna, telling ABC: "I think people deserve a second chance, you know. If you’ll note, he has not been on the Grammys for the past few years and it may have taken us a while to kind of get over the fact that we were the victim of what happened."

External links

• IMDb profile
• "The Envelope", L.A. Times
• L.A. Times reference to Ehrlich's career
• Profile at FilmReference.com
• TV Guide interview
• Access Hollywood profile