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For 40 years, Ken Ehrlich has orchestrated the Grammys — but what's next?

LOS ANGELES - Ken Ehrlich's phone rings incessantly, to the point where he can barely finish a thought without being interrupted by a buzz, a matter of critical importance awaiting him on the other end of the receiver every time.

"Sorry ... that's my life these days," he says, as he searches for where he left off in conversation.

The Emmy-winning producer is one of the busiest men in show business. On any given Sunday between now and Easter, four music spectacles will air in prime time, all bearing the Ken Ehrlich Productions stamp.

Typically, we meet Ehrlich while he's perched behind a soundboard in the middle of running through a show, calling the shots with the aplomb of a man who's spent most of his life shepherding live television. Today, he's swiveling around a chair in a largely barren office, with only the clutter from the many projects

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