I grew up in suburban New Jersey in the seventies and eighties. I listened to Z100 and their Z Morning Zoo until I was sixteen. I didn't know other music existed apart from plugged-in pop and the Broadway records my older brother played over and over and over again. I spent my mornings blow-drying my hair and singing into the mirror along with Tina Tuner, "I'm your private dance-ah. A dance-ah for money. I'll do what you want me to do." Then a new friend who moved from Chicago turned me on to Camper Van Beethoven, and Little Feat, and Led Zeppelin, and WPLJ and KROCK and DJs like Pat St. John. And the scales fell away from my eyes. Not that I don't have a huge library of eighties pop music that I still go to in times of trouble, but now it's more...fleshed out.
How I got into radio? Well, like Jaz, the answer is rather pedestrian. I was driving to my job as the copywriter for the complete catalog for the nursing mother, Motherwear, when I heard my favorite morning show host, Dave in the Morning mention that his sidekick Rachel (Yes, that Rachel of Air America fame) was leaving. I sent Dave an E-mail saying I thought I could be a suitable replacement. He wrote me back, "Meet me at the station tomorrow morning at 4." I showed up. He turned on the microphone and two months later I left my job writing about nipple butter and pima cotton for a catalog and started full-time talking about nipple butter and Patty Griffin on the air. (Not in the same sentence, though a girl can dream.) Read about Kelsey in the Gazette! Find out about her acting, her comedy past and how she ended up at WRSI! Read the article here.
Read about Kelsey in the Gazette! Find out about her acting, her comedy past and how she ended up at WRSI! 
