I moved from Magnolia North Carolina to Clinton when I was 13 years old. Back in 1979, I starting helping with my late Aunt Minnie’s house parties with the music. My neighbors Ronald and the late Donald Tuten had just put together a homemade mobile DJ system and that’s when I got the bug watching them try to mix music.
While living with my Grandmother, my parents lived in Bronx New York, so I would commute there often and got to listen to WBLS, 92 WKTU and 98.7 Kiss FM. After moving to Clinton, a new radio station hit the scene called D-103 and featured Gilbert Baez who had his own mix show on Saturday nights. He would also DJ some of our school parties at Clinton High.
Then I made friends with DJ Kquick, who mixed it up at our school parties too and would also later go into radio starting at WOKN in Goldsboro. I started hanging with his crew and even had my own break dance group called the Rhythm Rockers.
After graduating high school in 1984, I moved to New York City and while working at Macys, learned the tricks of the trade at the now out-of-business "Announcer Training Studios" (ATS), a broadcasting school where I studied speech, studio operations, production, broadcast law and broadcast history.
In 1986 I moved back down south and got my first gig at WZYZ Z101 in Fairmont North Carolina working the graveyard shift playing Top 40, followed by the Urban AM station WHYZ in 1987 in Greenville South Carolina. Gilbert Baez helped me get that job. In 1988 I finally got a stint at D-103 FM in Fayetteville NC until 1989.
My last 2 stations were Z-104 and MY-102.5 WMYI.
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