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Aliya-Jasmine "AJ" Sovani (born November 18, 1981 in Ottawa, Ontario) is one of the eight hosts of the MTV Canada's program MTV Live. Along with her co-hosting responsibilities, Sovani is a segment producer for many social and comedic segments on the show including "Shopping for Coffins" and a reoccurring home design segment called "Budget:Cribs" based on the hit show "MTV Cribs."

Background
While growing up in Ottawa, Sovani attended Confederation High School where her visual arts program allowed her to study in New York, Los Angeles and Italy. After graduating from John McRae Secondary School, Sovani moved on to attend the University of Ottawa where she obtained her bachelor of arts, with a major in broadcast communications while working a full-time job as a writer for a national men’s magazine, UMM.

Career
Sovani moved to Toronto for an internship at Fashion Television and worked part-time as a cable-wrangler for Star! TV. She soon became a field producer and host for bpm:tv for the program "Back at Ya" and later returned to Chum Television as a producer for MuchMusic for the show MuchOnDemand and toured across Canada while working as a host and field producer for the Much VJ Search in 2005. On her current show, MTV Live, she interviews celebrities, including Kanye West, Brad Pitt, Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell.

On Air Segments

 * MTV.ca Commercial: Meet AJ
 * AJ checks out buying a coffin
 * MTV Budget Cribs
 * Aliya Jasmine heeds to Nuit Blache
 * Aliya Jasmine goes to Newfoundland
 * Aliya Jasmine sits down with Jenna Jameson
 * Aliya Jasmine at Wakefest 2007