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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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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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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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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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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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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Tony Blackburn (section Early career as disc jockey)
Anthony Kenneth Blackburn OBE (born 29 January 1943) is an English disc jockey, singer and television presenter, whose career spans 60 years. Blackburn...
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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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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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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 the...
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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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Phonograph record (redirect from Gramophone disc)
smaller scale, and during the 1990s and early 2000s were commonly used by disc jockeys (DJs), especially in dance music genres. They were also listened to by...
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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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(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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Sam Divine is a British disc jockey and record producer from Weston-super-Mare, England. Known as the "Queen of Defected Records", she performs regularly...
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Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr. (section "Jockey Jack")
American radio disc jockey and actor. He is regarded as the father of the Black appeal radio format. To his peers in radio his nickname was "Jockey Jack," and...
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Fish56Octagon (born 1979 or 1980) is a British electronic dance music disc jockey and marketing professional who has gained a social media following due...
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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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Jack Saunders (presenter) (redirect from Jack Saunders (disc jockey))
Jack Saunders (born 24 September 1992) is a British radio DJ and television presenter. He is best known for presenting BBC Radio 1's flagship new music...
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27, 1969, in Houston, Texas) is an American country music singer and disc jockey. She is the daughter of country music singer and musician Willie Nelson...
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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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distinguish itself from its competitors by establishing an all-female disc jockey lineup. Out of the 800 women who applied, Steele was one of the team...
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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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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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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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Steve Walsh (DJ) (redirect from Steve Walsh (disc jockey))
Steve Walsh (20 September 1958 – 3 July 1988) was a British disc jockey. He died on 3 July 1988, in London. Walsh began his radio career at the first...
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Nina Blackwood (category American video jockeys)
Nina Blackwood is an American disc jockey and music journalist, who was the first of the original five MTV VJs (along with Mark Goodman, J. J. Jackson...
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Jamboree (1957 film) (redirect from Disc Jockey Jamboree)
Jamboree, known as Disc Jockey Jamboree in the United Kingdom, is a 1957 American rock and roll film directed by Roy Lockwood. Its story is about a boy...
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Ben Hemsley (born 1996) is an electronic dance music disc jockey and record producer from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He won the DJ Mag Best Producer award...
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