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Martin JayBorn in Nov 19?? - Martin Jay went to school at Burlington Danes in West London where he spent most of his free time playing cricket for his school and county.

At the age of 13 together with his cousin Ian he began collecting records and began a big interest in Dj'ing. He was frequently complimented on the quality of his voice and it was this that spurred him on to put a demo tape together and in OCTOBER 1987 he started working on community radio stations in West London such as Pioneer and WLR .

In 1990 London was treated to the birth of Choice FM and Martin saw this station as somewhere that his career could flourish and began bombarding management with phone calls and demos telling that the station was missing a young fresh soca DJ to represent. On September 30th 1990 at 8pm Martin' s journey moved up a gear and the Caribbean Affair had begun. The objective was simple as far as Martin was concerned all he had to do each week was knock himself out and make people happy.

So far so good Martin can still be heard on a Sunday evening between 8 and 10 making people happy by uniting the Caribbean with sweet sweet soca music and happy vibes. In March 1992 his radio career moved up another notch as he was given the opportunity to present a Saturday morning breakfast show . The music was totally different but his happy vibe remained consistent throughout his five year stint as the weekend breakfast show presenter which only came to a close in 1997 when the station asked Martin to come on board on a daily basis as the co presenter of the breakfast show. This year will be 9 years of MJ hosting the breakfast show on London's Number One for Hip Hop and R&B an achievement that he is very proud of. In this time he has had the pleasure of interviewing Samuel L Jackson, Katie Price, Sophie Anderton, Destiny's Child, Bow Wow, Will Smith and his darling Janet Jackson just to name a few.

Martin has traveled extensively to places in the Caribbean, North America Europe and Canada and has broadcasted live from Barbados, Germany World Cup 2006 Trinidad, St Lucia and South Africa . Being on the radio is one of his biggest joys in life as well as watching the West Indies play cricket . He hopes to be on air for many years to come bringing joy to people playing the
music that they love to hear. As well as playing on the radio Martin can found week in week out nicing up soca parties all over London he has been very instrumental in the
success of some big ones such as COCOYEA, SOCA CITY, COLOURS, SOCA JUMBIE and for eight years was co partner of The Original Socarobics Company with fitness specialist Kawame of Afrobics .

If it's Caribbean Martin loves it.!!!!

Martin Jay & Will Smith Ronnie & Martin

 
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