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In January 2005, Warren was asked to help a friend by singing on a demo that could potentially help him secure a musical director position with multi-platinum, multi-award winner, Gospel artist and songwriter/producer Fred Hammond. Her friend received a call from Hammond's office to inquire who was the voice on the CD? Within hours Hammond personally called her and by month's end she had moved to Detroit to join the Face to Face Production Team. She quickly became an integral part, lending her unmistakable musical creativity and business savvy to all projects Hammond was producing. Over the next several years, Warren's soulful voice and professionalism would become a recognizable constant in the Fred Hammond Camp.

Her journey began in Portland, Oregon, born the eldest child of a choir director and a gospel singer. With music all around it wasn't a surprise to her parents she was singing and playing piano by age five. While still in grade school she began teaching local choirs and also developed her dance and choreography skills while participating in the co-op program with Jefferson Performing Arts Magnet Program. By the time she was a teen she was widely sought after in her native northwest as a vocal coach, creative consultant and choreographer. Producer Zach Harris-Barjona and former wife Tracey Harris-Woods gave Ericka her first shot in the recording booth and she discovered a love for creating in the studio that continues to this day.

While pursuing her college degree she kept up her choreography skills as the captain for her beloved University of Oregon football and basketball teams and still managed to serve as an adjunct professor for the University Gospel Ensemble. After graduating, she began recording and touring with various pop, blues, jazz and gospel artists as a background vocalist and choreographer.

Over the course of her career she has had the opportunity to share the stage with several recording artists in various genres such as Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Michael McDonald, Kirk Whalum, Karen Clark-Sheard, Marvin Sapp, Dawkins and Dawkins, Donnie McClurkin, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Kelly Price, Jonathan Butler, Tye Tribett, Mary Mary, Lalah Hathaway and Stevie Wonder.

While touring and working with Hammond, she emerged as a songwriter / producer on his 2006 project entitled Free To Worship which earned a GRAMMY for Best Contemporary R & B Gospel Album. Following the succes of this project, she lent her pen to several songs as well as producing on Hammond's 2009 release "Love Unstoppable, including co-writing the #1 single "They That Wait" featuring John P. Kee. "They That Wait" spent 15 weeks at #1 on Billboard's Gospel Charts and earned Warren the title Top Gospel Song Writer at the 2011 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards. She has served as Hammond's executive assistant and Chief Financial Officer for his production company Face to Face and currently serves as his Business Manager.

This talented singer / songwriter / Producer is now launching out on her own writing and producing for artists as well as co-writing and releasing her first single on the soulful BESPEAK LOVE project which topped the UK Soul charts. A collective of Portland based independent artists giving listeners a great introduction into the wealth of talent hidden in their quiet Northwest city. Her single titled "Best In Me" is an uptempo groove, musically reminiscent of classic 80's Michael Jackson and boasts some of the industry's most sought after musicians: Derek "DC" Clark (Fred Hammond, Yolanda Adams), Erick Walls (Trey Songz, Mary Mary), Gorden Campbell (George Duke, Mary J Blige, Ne-Yo) and Eric "Pikfunk" Smith (Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Janet Jackson and Legally Blynd).

Ericka Warren's "The Best In Me", a dance track that sports a smooth yet funky bass line, tight backing vocals and propelled by Warren's lead singing that moves from a classic gospel inspired soul to a contemporary R&B/hip-hop styled delivery ~ Howard Dukes, Soultracks

Warren is a true artist with a passion for her music and is poised to make a long term impact in the music industry. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon and is mother to a creative five year old named Brooklyn.