A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs...
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Mobile disc jockeys (also known as mobile DJs or mobile discos) are disc jockeys that tour with portable sound, lighting, and video systems. They play...
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as MTV, VH1, MuchMusic and Channel V. The term "video jockey" comes from the term "disc jockey", "DJ" ("deejay") as used in radio. Music Television (MTV)...
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Jimmy Young (broadcaster) (redirect from JimmyYoung (disc jockey))
Young (21 September 1921 – 7 November 2016), was an English singer, disc jockey and radio personality. Early in his career in the 1950s he had two number...
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Harry Chapin (redirect from Jim Connors (disc jockey))
an aging disc jockey who has given up his entire life and family for his career. The song is sung from the point of view of the disc jockey, who is singing...
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Greg James (redirect from Greg James (Disc Jockey))
Gregory James Alan Milward (born 17 December 1985) is an English broadcaster and author. He has been a presenter on BBC Radio 1 since 2007, hosting shows...
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Peter Powell (DJ) (redirect from Peter Powell (disc jockey))
Peter James Barnard-Powell (born 24 March 1951) is an English former disc jockey, popular on BBC Radio 1 in the late 1970s and 1980s, as well as a television...
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Carol Miller (DJ) (redirect from Carol Miller (disc jockey))
Carol Miller is an American radio personality and disc jockey. She has been a steady presence on rock radio stations in the New York metropolitan area...
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Radio personality (redirect from Radio jockey)
English) or radio jockey. Radio personalities who introduce and play individual selections of recorded music are known as disc jockeys or "DJs" for short...
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The history of radio disc jockeys covers the time when gramophone records were first transmitted by experimental radio broadcasters to present day radio...
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Pete Murray (DJ) (redirect from Pete Murray (disc jockey))
at the London Palladium. Murray was one of the original BBC Radio 1 disc-jockeys when the station started in 1967. By 1969, he was one of the mainstays...
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radio stations in radio broadcasting to produce the illusion of a live disc jockey or announcer sitting in the radio studios of the station when one is...
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Gold (British radio network) (redirect from Dean Martin (disc jockey))
Gold is a network of oldies radio stations in the United Kingdom, which was formed by the merger of the Capital Gold network and the Classic Gold network...
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(January 21, 1938 – July 1, 1995), known as Wolfman Jack, was an American disc jockey active for over three decades. Famous for the gravelly voice which he...
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Meg Griffin (born December 2, 1953) is an American radio disc jockey, currently heard on the Sirius XM Satellite Radio channels The Loft, Classic Vinyl...
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David Jacobs (broadcaster) (redirect from David Jacobs (disc jockey))
David Lewis Jacobs, CBE (19 May 1926 – 2 September 2013) was a British broadcaster. He was the presenter of the BBC Television series Juke Box Jury in...
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Leon Isaac Kennedy (born January 1, 1949) is a retired American actor, disc jockey, film producer and playwright. Kennedy's acting roles include Martel...
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Jack Saunders (presenter) (redirect from Jack Saunders (disc jockey))
Jack Saunders (born 24 September 1992) is a British radio DJ and TV presenter. He is best known for presenting the flagship new music show every weeknight...
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dance floor, laser lighting displays, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who mixes recorded music. Nightclubs tend to be smaller than live...
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Stryker (DJ) (redirect from Stryker (disc jockey))
known on-air as simply "Stryker", is an American radio personality and disc jockey. Stryker began his radio career while attending the University of Arizona...
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George Klein (DJ) (redirect from George Klein (disc jockey))
February 5, 2019(2019-02-05) (aged 83) Memphis, Tennessee Occupation Disc jockey Years active 1957–2019 Spouses Barbara Little (m. 1970; div. 1979)...
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Billy Gillies (born 1989 or 1990) is a disc jockey and trance music producer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. His 2023 single released with Hannah Boleyn...
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Disc Jockey is a 1951 American film. A radio disc jockey is about to lose his program's sponsor because the sponsor believes that audiences are deserting...
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Tony Blackburn (section Early career as disc jockey)
Antony Kenneth Blackburn OBE (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey, singer and TV presenter, whose career spans 60 years. Blackburn first achieved...
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1953 – 19 May 2024), known professionally as Franchino was an Italian disc jockey. He died due to complications from a heart attack on 19 May 2024, at...
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Paul van Dyk (redirect from Matthias Paul (disc jockey))
Matthias Paul (German pronunciation: [maˈtiːas ˈpaʊ̯l]; born 16 December 1971), known professionally as Paul van Dyk (German: [ˈpaʊ̯l fan ˈdʏk]) is a German...
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TV Disc Jockey was an early Australian television music program which is notable as it later evolved to become the Australian version of Bandstand. It...
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Winston Conrad "Wink" Martindale (born December 4, 1933) is an American disc jockey, radio personality, game show host, and television producer. He is best...
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Ian Levine (section Disc jockey)
Manchester with DJ Les Cokell, after leaving school in 1971 he became a disc jockey at the Blackpool Mecca with Tony Jebb. Levine joined other DJs in travelling...
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Mark Thompson (DJ) (redirect from Mark Thompson (disc jockey))
LaMarr Thompson (born December 1, 1955) is an American radio personality (disc jockey) and occasional actor, best known for the nationally syndicated Mark...
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