Erik Kanto  Erik Kanto   -   Speaking Engagements 
Kanto Productions LLC

Erkki "Erik" Kanto: entertainer, speaker, lecturer, Hollywood journalist, author, producer, IT director

 

Los Angeles, CA

 

Erik brings his own portable computer and multimedia projector - with no additional charge - or he may use the projector available in house.

 

Selected Samples of Erik's Topics

"YOUR FACE TELLS ALL" An entertaining lecture with PowerPoint presentation about the Chinese art of reading faces with numerous photos and images of the top Hollywood celebrities.

"HELLO HOLLYWOOD" After more than 20 years of interviewing, meeting, chumming and partying with the biggest names in Hollywood, Erik reveals all the secrets. He includes the best inside stories from Hollywood and the annual Golden Globe Awards, even a few video clips with the Award Winners - as well as lots of celebrity photos in this PowerPoint-enhanced presentation.

"HOW TO CONQUER HOLLYWOOD?" What to do? Where to go? How to to do it? Erik tells the secrets of what to do to conquer Hollywood. Which ever way you wish to do it!

"HOW TO MAKE PC YOUR FRIEND?" How to make your computer your friend. Even when traveling... How to fight against the viruses and other outside attacks... Everything you wish to ask about using a PC in an easy-to-understand lecture with full on-screen demonstrations.

 

BIO:


<> private studies of physiognomy in Los Angeles, CA
and Peking, China, 1997-2000 <>
<> private acting and singing studies in London, United Kingdom, 1972-1976 <>
<> music and acting studies in Finland, 1957-1972 <>
<> permanent resident in the USA since 1985, US citizen since 2006 <>
<> professional performer since 1962  <>
<>  languages: English, Finnish, some Swedish <>  

 

STAGE PERFORMANCES & LECTURES & OWN CONCERTS.

2005-continues HELLO HOLLYWOOD  lectures featuring Hollywood's top stars and all their little secrets - as well the latest from the Annual Golden Globe Awards, "Hollywood's Best Party of the Year" (in Finland, USA)
2001-continues HOW TO CONQUER HOLLYWOOD?  lectures on how to get in to Hollywood (in Finland, USA)
2001-continues GREETINGS FROM THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS
a special, entertaining presentation directly from the Golden Globe Awards (lot's of celebrity photos, gossip and stories from the gala event) (in Finland, USA)
1999-continues YOUR FACE TELLS ALL  lectures of Chinese Face Reading (in Finland, USA, Asia)
1997-continues
THAT'S HOLLYWOOD  lectures featuring Hollywood's top stars and all their little secrets (in Finland, USA)
1990-continues HOW TO MAKE PC YOUR FRIEND?  lectures on how to use a computer (in Finland, USA)
1979-continues SOLO CONCERTS (as a singer or a singer-pianist) (in Finland, USA)
1986 SAWDUST IN MY SHOES, musical, Miklos (in Los Angeles- CA-USA)
1982-1986 AN EVENING WITH ENRICO CANTO, an ongoing series of one-man shows (in Finland)
1985 WHY CAN'T A WOMAN BE LIKE A MAN?, one-man theatrical show (in Maxim-Tampere-Finland)
1985 ENRICO CANTO SHOW, one-man show (onboard M/S Caribe I-The Caribbean Sea)
1982 ENRICO CANTO SHOW, one-man theatrical show (in Adlon-Helsinki-Finland)
                   
 
TV AND RADIO (listing own shows only)
1979-2000 RADIO SHOWS, hundreds, list available (on YLE-Finland, USA)
1983 & 1985 ORDINARY MAN (on TV 2-Finland)
1984 ORDINARY MAN (on TV 2-Sweden)
1983 ENRICO CANTO (on Ch 39-Florida, USA)
1983 POIMULEHTI (on TV 1-Finland)

 

PRINT (writer, screenwriter, author)
1979-
continues
journalistic writing (features, columns, reports) more than one thousand published in magazines and newspapers (in Finland, USA, Spain, Canada)
2004 co-author YOUR FACE TELLS ALL, book published by Atophill Publishing (USA)
2002 screenwriter THE LAPPONIA SCRIPTURES, motion picture (in development, 2007, USA)
2001 co-author HOW TO CONQUER HOLLYWOOD, book published by Karisto Oy (Finland)
2000 co-author YOUR FACE TELLS, book published by Karisto Oy (Finland)

 

Featured in numerous print articles, guest appearances in radio and television programs (in Finland, USA) 1982-present.


OTHER PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Recording artist (solo vocal, or vocal and keyboards) of nine albums - received one Golden Record Award. Music and song writing (more than 500 compositions); radio, TV, video and music production; teaching and coaching singers, entertainers and actors (since 1972); founded and owned a private school for music and performing (1976-1987).
Voting member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the Annual Golden Globe Awards, Director of the Board, Trustee, IT Director (joined 1992).

 

Contact information for Erik Kanto 

Email Address: erkkikanto@kantoproductions.com
Website: http://www.kantoproductions.com/lecture/
Mailing Address:
P. O. Box 630402
Simi Valley, CA 93063
Business Phone: 805-584-9639
Toll Free Number: 800-33- KANTO
Fax Number: 310-507-0142