When golden-voiced Erika Jo became the winner of the USA Network's #Nashville Star, she was the youngest contestant to enter the three-season-old talent competition, her big win enjoyed the highest ratings yet, and she not only won a recording contract, but a fully loaded Chevy Silverado pickup. The recording contract she could deal with, but for an 18-year-old senior who had just gone to prom a week before her victory, the Silverado proved too much to handle. It was this same combination of charming innocence and stage confidence that took Erika Jo to the finals of #Nashville Star and onto every country radio station's playlist with her first single, the country-rockin' "I Break Things."
Born Erika Jo Heriges in Angleton, TX, Erika Jo and family moved to Nashville before she turned two.