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Eric West (born Eric Rosa on May 18, 1982 in New York, NY USA) is a model turned R&B/pop singer, actor and humanitarian. In 1996, he made his film debut; in 2004, he became one of the most exciting new faces to hit the international model scene, while two more movies followed, including Bobby with Lindsay Lohan and Nick Cannon currently in production. Eric has appeared on CNN People In The News, MTV, and The Oprah Winfrey
Show. Scouted by New Faces in America, he has happily coupled his first passion as a singer / songwriter with a successful modeling career. According to many Internet and radio reports he is currently dating R&B singer/actress Christina Milian (Though not denied or confirmed the two are friends).

Biography

Eric started recording music at the age of 12 much like his uncle Grammy winner Smokey Robinson of Motown fame, Black Eyed Peas member Fergie (Stacy Ferguson) discovered Eric, and invited the then 15 year old to appear on stage with the Grammy winner at a concert in New York City for Jane Magazine. In 1996 West released his debut single End Of The World under the name Eryk in Asia, it achieved Top 10 status on the Tokyo Hot 100 singles chart, right before he turned 15 he had finished recording a full-length album titled H20 that was never released. The single failed to hit in America. In the summer of 1998 Eric took his voice to radio, at age 16 he was the youngest DJ in history on FM radio in New York City, when he became a CO-host of the Top 9 at 9 on WBLS with radio diva JC Jordan.

On September 21st, 2000 Eric joined Rich Cronin of the platinum selling band LFO, in Brooklyn, New York to help lead the Light The Night Walk with 12 year-old leukemia survivor Kimberly Thach, the Society's National Youth Ambassador. Eric, Rich and Kimberly lead approximately 1,000 leukemia survivors, friends, and family members carrying illuminated balloons over the Brooklyn Bridge to commemorate lives touched by cancer.

With no record deal and an album that never got released Eric found himself and his family on hard times, finding himself homeless, West said in a recent interview, but after nearly a 3 year break, Eric returned briefly late 2002 with Can You Help Me? his first single in over 5 years, produced by Stay-C Hogan and written by West it became an international radio hit topping the B-Radio Latin American radio charts for 2 weeks, rivaling songs by Justin Timberlake and Madonna for the No. 1 spot, while hitting Top 5 on numerous stations in Chile, Bolivia and Mexico (No.19 most successful Untapped Resources International Top 200 singles of 2002), rumors of an album being released floated around on the Internet, but were untrue at the time. In 2002 Eric got together with Grammy winning producers David Foster (Michael Jackson, Céline Dion, Whitney Houston) and Carole Bayer Sager (Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Neil Diamond) to write a song for Pop icon Cher for her forthcoming album, a demo version of the song "Love Don't Live Here" was leaked to the internet.

Eric once again disappeared until early 2004 but returned more visible than before. He signed a deal with Artist Against Racism to appear in their TV commercials in America. Artist Against Racism is an organization that also includes superstars like Céline Dion, Lenny Kravitz, Sarah McLachlan, Mike Myers, Bush and Aerosmith. He made his TV debut acting a tv pilot called In My Lifetime directed by Devin Hampton and Little X who has directed music videos for Sean Paul, Usher, Alicia Keys, R. Kelly and Nelly. Eric then received a top honor from the OCTN; he was awarded the Humanitarian Award : Youth Of The Millennium. He received the award for the charity work he's done in his community over the years.

In 2004 Eric also appeared in his own fashion spread in Marie Claire Japan. He was featured as one of fashion's top new models and singers, and that was just early 2004.

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