From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Samantha Taylor
Samantha Taylor
Samantha Taylor References
Born 1958 (age 52–53) • Smith, Diane "Taylor Made for TV" Toronto Star,
Toronto, Ontario
April 12, 1986
Occupation Television personality, Video jockey
Samantha Taylor (born 1958) was the host of the CBC
External links
Television music video program Video Hits from 1984 to • Samantha Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
1989. • 1985 clip of Samantha Taylor on Video Hits
She was born in Toronto, Ontario, as Myroslava Las- • [1] Bociurkiw, Mykhailo "Samantha Taylor: An
tivka Lydia Luciw. Her family moved to Pennsylvania Interview with Canada’s No. 1 V. J." (pp. 9, 14)
when she was three. She started her broadcast career Interview with Taylor about her life and career, her
while a student at Pennsylvania State University, using ethnic roots, and about the music industry at a time
the name Myra Luciw at the university radio station and when music videos were a new art form.
the name Michele Michaels at a commercial station. Persondata
After graduation, Taylor worked briefly in Washing-
Name Taylor, Samantha
ton DC before returning to Toronto in 1980, where she
was hired as station librarian and part-time disc jockey Alternative names
for Q-107. At that time she also began hosting CFMT’s Short description
Metro Music show, giving her the video experience that Date of birth 1958
would lead to the job with CBC’s Video Hits in 1984.
Place of birth Toronto, Ontario
As a concert promoter, Taylor was involved in the
early careers of The Police and Dire Straits. Date of death
Place of death
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Categories:
• 1958 births
• Living people
• People from Toronto
• Pennsylvania State University alumni
• Canadian television hosts
• Canadian people of Ukrainian descent
• Canadian television biography stubs
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