Kid Capri on What It Means to Be a Real DJ
Kid Capri performs live. Legendary hip-hop DJ Kid Capri was a guest on Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning show on Monday. The Bronx native, who’s credited with popularizing mixtapes in the ’80s, discussed the…
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12-Year-Old DJ Rena Is The 2017 DMC World DJ Champion
Japanese cut master DJ Rena has just won the 2017 DMCr World DJ Championships, becoming the youngest champion in DMC history at just 12 years of age. He beat turntablists from 16 other countries…
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Opie and Anthony Disciplined
XM Satellite Radio on Tuesday suspended shock jocks Opie and Anthony for 30 days, saying it wanted to make clear “that our on-air talent must take seriously the responsibility that creative freedom requires of them.”…
Longtime L.A. Radio Disc Jockey
“Big Ron” O’Brien, 56, a disc jockey who spent more than a decade in Los Angeles radio and was host of a weekday afternoon show on KIIS-FM (102.7), died Sunday from complications of pneumonia, Broadcast…
Pedro Gonzales, 99; Activist, Early Latino Disc Jockey
SAN DIEGO — Pedro Gonzales, a Mexican American social advocate and one of the first Latino disc jockeys in the United States, has died at the age of 99. Gonzales, a longtime resident of the…
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At 84, Art Laboe’s An Oldie But Still A Goodie
After more than 50 years on the radio, the disc jockey is still going strong, playing sentimental songs and making dedications. His deep, soothing voice is cherished by his Latino listeners. The disc jockey smiles when…
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Aspiring Young Disc Jockeys Ready to Meet Radio
June is “The World of Radio” month at the Los Angeles Children’s Museum. Disc jockeys from 11 local radio stations will be at the microphones at the museum’s Lou Adler Recording Studio and talk to…
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Slayer of Disc Jockey Gets 15 Years to Life
The 21-year-old cousin of slain Los Angeles disc jockey Rodolfo Garcia Cortez was sentenced last week to 15 years to life in prison for the 1986 beating death of the popular KWKW announcer. Gustavo Garcia…
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Why Dance Music Is Slowing Down
Slow club … Pharrell in Calvin Harris’s video for Feels; (right) the man himself. For years commercial dance music has been hyperactive, its standard beat per minute (bpm) – punctuated by the success of Calvin…