- Son of actress Cheryl Miller.
- The exclusive Magic Castle in Hollywood, a club for working magicians, lowered its minimum age from 14 to 12 so he could become a member.
- In 1992 he was the youngest magician to become a member of exclusive Magic Castle in Hollywood.
- On August 24, 1993 he performed at a White House luncheon that was attended by Vice President Al Gore.
- After seeing Harry Blackstone Jr. perform Erik bought magic books and taught himself enough simple tricks to venture into public. He started on a street corner near his house in Corona Del Mar, California.
- He came home from that first day of street performing with $78 in his pocket, which encouraged him to head back that evening.
- In the summer of 1994 he performed at the annual convention in Orlando, Fla., of the IBM--the International Brotherhood of Magicians, naturally--Erik competed against magicians from 58 nations, coming in second for entrants less than 20 and sixth overall against all ages. He has scored as impressively in other competitions.
- To work off some of the tension from competing, he and another young magician friend will go to an arcade and whack the puck around on an air hockey table.
- He spent the rest of his first summer working on the corner street performing, bringing home $30 to $80 a day.
- He has performed several times at the exclusive Magic Castle, the private club that has been the venue for magicians for over three decades. As a member of its junior program, he also goes to workshops where older magicians critique his work.
- Within a week of getting his first magic book, he was trundling a crate up the block to the Pacific Coast Highway, where he set up business in front of a frozen yogurt shop.
- Though he likes the mystery of magic, he wouldn't mind more of it in everyday life.
- He never did meet the President, by the way, since the White House luncheon he was scheduled to perform at was canceled at the last minute.
- His Mother Cheryl Miller was against him being a street magician.
- When Erik went out to perform at night at a frozen yogurt shop, because there was a bigger crowd coming, he was scared so he asked his mother Cheryl Miller to come with him. So Cheryl went up with him and parked herself across the street on the bus stop bench watching, being the protective mother.
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