About
Qualifications:
- 16 + Years Providing DJ Services.
- Manager of Soundman Music DJ Services.
- Graduate of Western Academy Broadcasting College.
- On Air Personality/Community Events Person Sunny 94 Radio.
- House DJ for: Diesel Lounge Red Deer
- Metro Bar & Grill Red Deer.
- Current Work & Contracts:
- Wild Bills North Hill Inn Red Deer Thursdays & Fridays.
- Sound/Technician and Co-host of The Amazing Game Show Wild Bills Tuesdays, Decker’s Wednesdays.
I have always been a fan of music, more to the point, the music from the radio. As a child, the first song I can ever remember hearing was Super Tramp – Take the Long Way Home. I grew up listening to my dad sing along to the radio, and following along myself as I got older. I spent hours of my time making my own mix tapes and recording my voice as if I was a radio DJ and by grade 7 had already decided that being a DJ was where I wanted to be.
Like any kid I loved watching the DJ’s at the school Dances, I did interviews with radio DJ’s any chance I could for school projects and would often fall asleep with the radio on. I grew up with a fond appreciation for old time radio shows and my imagination grew from envisioning the action being played out over the radio and my father’s tapes. By High school I was already collecting an assortment of tapes and a few records and at age 19 I got a job as a Mobile DJ with A.C.M DJ Services in Red Deer which eventually was absorbed by Soundman Music.
Fast forward 11 years and I was getting ready to enter College for Radio Broadcasting as well as managing one of Red Deer’s Biggest and most successful mobile DJ companies, Soundman Music. My time away at school taught me many things, the biggest: Radio was not what I thought it was growing up and after a time working with a local radio station and the dissolution of the DJ company I worked for, I decided to strike out on my own, taking all the ideas I had learned in Radio and my previous experience as a DJ and putting them into practice with my own company.
It’s been 16 years since I first picked up a microphone and announced my first dance to an eager audience and a happy newly married couple. With hundreds of weddings and other events behind me I still get butterflies when I open a show with that first song. Only now it is not the nervousness of inexperience or fear of hundreds of eyes looking at me. It is the same excitement and wonder I have had since a child of experiencing music and sharing it with others and knowing that I am entertaining them like I was entertained by others growing up.
