SO YOU WANT TO BE ON RADIO: MY HARD TRUTHS
You have been told you have a great voice. Your friends find your commentary witty and engaging and ask why you have not considered working on radio. They assume it is a no-brainer for you since you’re talkative and your voice tones and modulations seem suited to the “rigours” of being an On-Air Personality. I can relate. It kind of started off like that for me; Holding court at the back of the class a few minutes before prep time ended, talking about football’s greatest players and teams, chipping in my own thoughts and heavily tainted opinions. On top of that I was considered a music connoisseur of sorts, who knew the latest songs and even had the audacity to front an r&b group in secondary school in the nineties! Then one day, I don’t know if he remembers this but the man Chicago now knows as DJ Dee Money asked me, “Have you considered studying Mass Communication and going into Radio?” That was the light bulb moment for me. Fortunately, I had no grand ...