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*Idris Elba says he’s taking a break from acting this year so he can focus his full attention on his other love, music. The British actor, who DJs under the name Driis, is currently in the middle of a seven-week residency at a London nightclub. He told Britain’s Daily Mirror, “This year I’m not going [...]
*Judging from the comments on our previous story about the prank call to Kate Middleton’s room from two Australian DJs, most of you know that the nurse that transferred the call, committed suicide. There’s no concrete evidence that the tragedy is associated with the prank call, but it is the assumption thus far. According to [...]
*Nephew Tommy and Rickey Smiley have been the reigning kings of prank calls, but they have been usurped by a couple of knucklehead DJ’s down under. Two Australian radio hosts may have gotten hospital staff members at the King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes in London staff fired. The dynamic duo, hosts Mel Greig and [...]
*Simon Cowell is partnering with Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith for a new reality competition series searching for the world’s best DJ. Cowell’s SYCO Entertainment is partnering with the couple’s Overbrook Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television to launch the format, which is expected to be shopped internationally and domestically, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “DJ’s are [...]
*In Hollywood circles, Connor Cruise, Tom Cruise’s adopted son, is known as DJ C Squared. That’s because the 16-year-old, who lives with “Mission Impossible” star Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes, is making quite a name for himself as an in-demand DJ in Hollywood. DJ C Squared will be hitting the turntables on New [...]
*Beat-boxing rapper, Biz Markie DJed an unorthodox event for Hip Hop artists — a Docker’s party. He helped invited guests celebrate and showcase the men’s apparel maker’s Fall 2011 collection at Tribeca’s Hudson & Broad showroom in NYC. There’s not much Markie to say to justify the booking, but in an attempt to explain, he [...]
*On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 WRVS Program Director Gregory V. Lange passed away just two days after his birthday. He was 56. Greg was a native of Los Angeles who grew up in Watts. He began his radio career in 1976 as a music librarian. He then segued into on air positions in Classical, [...]
*NEW YORK — On December 19 when popular hip hop deejay Cipha Sounds of New York’s Hot 97 claimed he was HIV negative because he doesn’t “mess with Haitian women,” he may not have realized the long, ugly history of stigmatizing Haitian-Americans in which he was taking part. New York City filmmakers Jeremy Robins and [...]
*Back in the day before the Fat Back Band made a record using rhyme[1], the M.C. or master of ceremonies or mic controller seemed to be nothing more than an ego booster for the DJ, who was the star of the show. It was the DJ whose mixing and scratching moved the crowd, as the [...]
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